Feron Hunt calmed the crowd after hitting the final four free throws that sealed a much needed 79-75 victory over Connecticut. Playing it off like just another night, however, might have been a little showmanship in front of a crowd tense from fearing another second half collapse.
Tim Jankovich himself, normally a stoic toter of the standard line, even deviated from the script in the postgame press conference to note Wednesday night’s game was eerily similar to Saturday. On the heels of a Temple loss, a game in which SMU saw its 17-point lead evaporate in the span of 12 minutes, UConn adopted nearly identical game flow.