NEW YORK — This is college basketball royalty.
Blue blood programs don’t just win championships, they do so by making it look easy despite carrying the burden of expectations and living as the Goliath in every game they play.
That’s UConn.
On Saturday night, Dan Hurley’s program added another trophy to its case, and even if it comes as little surprise that the Huskies hauled past Marquette 73-57 at Madison Square Garden, let’s do some quick accounting on the status of one of the most impressive units in all of American sports.
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“Someday you’re going to hear that noise coming from the Knicks locker room and it’s going to be the Knicks,” said a security officer named Mark, who was left to guard the entrance of Connecticut’s loud lair. Nearly an hour after the game went final, UConn’s locker room was an audible carnival, the hooting and hollering bursting into the hallway outside.
The Huskies hauled their first Big East Tournament since 2011 — the year Kemba Walker carried UConn to a Big East title and then a national title. That was the…
