HOUSTON — The Connecticut men’s basketball team has endured many tribulations in recent weeks. The Huskies walked into soiled hotel rooms when they arrived in Las Vegas for their first games in the N.C.A.A. tournament. Their bus was broken into while they were at practice. And Jordan Hawkins, their star guard, was curled up on the floor of his hotel room on Friday, stricken with illness and complaining about some calamari.
As for difficulties on the basketball court?
Those were trifling matters for the Huskies, who, after blitzing their way to the tournament’s championship game, showed they also possessed a rock-solid chin and a cool hand in turning back San Diego State, 76-59, to win their fifth title in the past 25 years.