UConn men’s basketball heads into the Big East Tournament with a little bit of egg on its face. The Huskies were embarrassed on the road against a lackluster Marquette team in the regular season finale, getting upset 68-62 with head coach Dan Hurley ejected in the final seconds. The loss not only hurt UConn from an NCAA tournament perspective, but cost the Huskies some hardware, preventing UConn from capturing what would have been a record 12th Big East regular season title.
Despite the recent blunder, FanDuel still believes the Huskies are the best team in the Big East. As of Monday, UConn is the only team with minus odds to cut down the nets in Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. The Huskies are -115 to win the Big East per FanDuel, with St. John’s as the only other close competition at +190.
Even though UConn lost three conference games to St. John’s two, the Huskies have been the stronger and more consistent team all season. Plus, the Huskies recently a delivered a 30-plus point beatdown of Rick Pitino’s Red Storm when the two teams met in Hartford at the end of February.
A Huskies/St. John’s Big East Tournament Championship matchup would certainly bring a lot of eyeballs to the title game Saturday night, and ensure one of the conference’s two strongest teams gets the highest possible seed with the automatic bid. But first, UConn will need take down the winner of 7-seed Marquette and 10-seed Xavier. FanDuel currently has 3.5-point favorites against the Musketeers and -170 odds to win outright, setting up a potential revenge opportunity for UConn and a chance to end Shaka Smart and the Golden Eagles’ season.
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