2011 NCAA Championship Game Time Schedule: Butler Bulldogs vs Connecticut Wildcats NCAA Championship 2011 Game Start Time and Live TV Coverage � Finally, after the NCAA Tournament 2011 Final Four, two NCAA college basketball teams emerged to become the last two who will battle for the NCAA Tournament 2011 Championship Finals on April 4, 2011 at Houston, Texas.
Butler Bulldogs vs Connecticut Wildcats will battle for the 2011 NCAA Tournament National Championship Finals on April 4, 2011 at Houston, Texas which will start at 8pm Eastern Time. CBS will have a live coverage of this NCAA Tournament 2011 Championship Finals between Butler and Connecticut.
Last Saturday, in the VCU vs. Butler NCAA Tournament 2011 Final Four game, Butler Bulldogs defeated Virginia Commonwealth Rams in a final score of 70-62. Shelvin Mack scored 24 points, Hahn scored all eight of his points during a 90-second span in the second half that gave Butler control of the game for good and the Bulldogs shut down hot-shooting VCU with their trademark unforgiving defense. The eighth-seeded Bulldogs (28-9) will face Connecticut on Monday night as the lowest-seeded team to play for the national title since Villanova won it as a No. 8 seed in 1985.
VCU had always managed to find a shot when it needed it in its first three games, but Butler simply wouldn't allow it. VCU was just 8 of 22 from long range, though that was still enough to set the NCAA record for most 3s in a tournament with 61. But Brandon Rozzell, who tied his career high with six treys against Georgetown, was 0 for 3. Slippery point guard Joey Rodriguez didn't make a shot until 8:30 left in the game, finishing with only three points on 1-of-7 shooting.Butler also dominated the boards, outrebounding VCU 48-32."Some of our shots didn't fall. Open shots, shots we'd been making," Rodriguez said. "I think if you go back and look at the tape, you'll see some of them were in and outs. Almost felt like it wasn't supposed to happen or something."
Meanwhile, in the NCAA Tournament 2011 Final Four game between Kentucky Wildcats vs. Connecticut Huskies, the Huskies defeated the Wildcats by just a merely one point advantage. Kemba Walker scored 18 points Saturday night to lift UConn to its 10th straight victory since finishing off a .500 Big East regular season, a 56-55 win over cold-shooting Kentucky that moved the Huskies a victory away from their third, and most improbable, NCAA title.
Fourth-seeded Kentucky (29-9) shot 33.9 percent for the game and went 5:39 without a point late in the second half. UConn wasn't much better, but Walker, Alex Oriakhi and Shabazz Napier all made baskets to turn a 48-48 tie into a 54-48 lead with 2:29 left.
DeAndre Liggins made a 3-pointer for the Wildcats to cut the deficit to three, and Kentucky had its chances. But Brandon Knight, one of John Calipari's three sensational freshmen, barely drew iron on a 3-pointer. After Kentucky got the rebound, Liggins drew a foul but only hit one of two free throws.
Next up: A meeting with Butler, the small school from Indianapolis that was last year's runner-up. But after this one, it was UConn sounding like the plucky underdog.
Which team do you think will have the advantage in the NCAA Tournament 2011 National Championship Finals? Is it the Butler Bulldogs or the Connecticut Wildcats? According to some of the NCAA Tournament 2011 Finals analysis and game predictions, it's the Connecticut Wildcats which are considered as underdogs. Let's all watch NCAA Tournament 2011 National Championship Finals on CBS at 8pm Eastern Time on April 4, 2011 live at Houston, Texas to determine the winner.
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