For a moment on Monday, UConn appeared to have comfortably fended off an upset bid from No. 7 seed UCF.
Instead it finished with a serious sweat before extending its Division I record streak of Sweet 16 bids to 28 straight seasons with a 52-47 win.
In a grind-it-out game, the second-seeded Huskies reeled off 12 straight points to turn a 30-29 third-quarter deficit into a seemingly insurmountable 41-30 fourth-quarter lead. But the Knights weren't done. After scoring a total of 12 points in the second and third quarters, UCF posted its own 9-0 run late in the fourth to cut UConn's lead to 48-45 with 53 seconds remaining.