PHILADELPHIA – With breathing room on the scoreboard hard to come by at the Wells Fargo Center Saturday night, the UConn men’s basketball team found just enough in its season finale to come away with a 71-59 victory over Villanova.
Finishing with a 24-7 record after winning eight of its last nine games, UConn matched its best regular-season record since the 2013-14 national championship campaign.
Both teams battled, mano a mano, to open the game. With each squad posting nearly identical statistics, the score was locked at even for the first three TV timeouts.
