UConn Aims for Historic Three-Peat in College Basketball

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00:00It's Dan Hurley's Huskies, the two-time reigning national

00:06champs in college basketball, looking to make history, trying

00:09to become the first three-time national champion back to back

00:14to back since the John Wooden days in the early 70s at UCLA.

00:18What will it take, John, for this Connecticut team to make

00:21history this season? Well, there are two elements that I'm

00:26closely at right now for UConn. One is a big part of these

00:30back-to-back runs for UConn to win the national championship

00:33in 23 and 24 in convincing fashion was the two-headed

00:37monster at center, Sunogo and Klingin, and then Klingin and

00:40Samson Johnson. Samson Johnson and Terrace Reed have to be

00:45dominant together for 40 minutes at the five spot, and

00:48then the perimeter for UConn has to be in a situation where

00:52it takes a major step forward, and that's directly correlated

00:56to St. Mary's transfer, Aiden Mahaney. Dan Hurley told me

00:59when I spoke to him last week that Aiden Mahaney has to be

01:02somewhere in between what Tristan Newton was in his first

01:06year in UConn's program in 2023 and what Cam Spencer was in

01:11UConn's program in 2024. They need Aiden Mahaney to be close

01:15to an all-Big East caliber player if UConn's going to have

01:19a chance to three-peat, but I want to point this out, Ben.

01:22UConn in the last two years has won 12 NCAA tournament games by

01:27an average of 21.7 points per game, so the Huskies don't have

01:33to be nearly as good as they've been to win it all once again.

01:37If UConn was 15 points worse than it was the last two years

01:41combined, it would still be beating opponents by almost

01:45seven points per contest.