Postgame Notes - No. 9 Connecticut 71, No. 8 West Virginia 67 (ot)
Records: Connecticut (20-12); West Virginia (19-13)

• Connecticut advances to face No 1-seeded Syracuse Thursday in the quarterfinal round of the BIG EAST
• Championship.
• Three of the last four Connecticut-Syracuse meetings in the BIG EAST Championship were decided in
• overtime, including a six-overtime Syracuse win in the 2009 quarterfinals.
• Today’s game was the 28th overtime game in BIG EAST Championship history It is the 19th time in 33 years
• that the tournament had at least one overtime game.
• Connecticut’s Jeremy Lamb scored 22 points, giving him double figures in all seven of his career BIG EAST
• tournament games.
• Connecticut has won seven straight games in the BIG EAST Championship, tying Georgetown for the thirdlongest
• winning streak in tournament history. The Huskies won nine straight from 1998-2000 and Syracuse
• won eight straight from 2005-07.
• Connecticut has won 13 consecutive postseason games.
• Connecticut became the BIG EAST’s eighth 20-win team.
• West Virginia scored two points in overtime, matching the fewest points by a team in OT in a BIG EAST
• tournament game. Villanova scored two points against Syracuse in the third overtime of the 1981
• championship game.
• West Virginia’s Kevin Jones had his 21st double-double of the season. Jones finished with 25 points and 10
• rebounds.
• West Virginia finishes its tenure in the BIG EAST with a 12-15 all-time record in the BIG EAST Championship.
• The Mountaineers won the 2010 title and played in two championship games.