Coming off a 60-point win in the regional semifinals and facing a Texas team that they dispatched by 51 points in the 2015 NCAA tournament, likely the expectation was that UConn would punch a trip to a record ninth straight Final Four by 50, 60 or maybe even 70 points.
The UConn players, however, realized that beating a team by 51 points especially one with the talent that the Texas team possesses, was not going to result in another laugher.
Had Lashann Higgs' 3-pointer been taken a split second earlier, the Longhorns would have only trailed by two at the end of the first quarter.