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NCAA tournament: UConn fends off Oklahoma rally to keep 3-peat hopes alive

UConn's quest for a three-peat is alive.

Completing it's not a likelihood for the Huskies, who entered the tournament as an unranked No. 8 seed after two seasons as college basketball's unquestioned best team. But they got the job done Friday in a 67-59 win over No. 9 seed Oklahoma.

After they started the season as the No. 3 team in the nation, it quickly became clear that the Huskies wouldn't be the juggernauts of years past. A 4-3 start dropped UConn to No. 25 in the AP poll, and it entered the NCAA tournament unranked with a 23-10 record as the third-place finisher in the Big East.