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WEATHER FORECAST
TODAY
40 percent chance of snow.
37 35
TOMORROW
WEDNESDAY
Cloudy morning giving way to sun in the afternoon.
58 42 Partly cloudy
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BY THOMAS AND MOZLEY
Terrapins Atlanta-bound
The Associated Press
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — On a night when Maryland's senior stars led the way, struggling junior Steve Blake hit the shot that sealed a second straight trip to the Final Four.
The No. 1-seeded Terrapins beat second-seeded Connecticut 90-82 Sunday in an East Regional final where the lead swung back and forth for most of the final 13 minutes.
Lonny Baxter had a seasonhigh 29 points, and fellow senior Juan Dixon scored 27 for Maryland, which reached the 30-victory mark for the first time in school history.
But as the shot clock wound down in the final minute of the tight game, Blake sank a 3-pointer — his first points of the evening — to make it 86-80.
"We have tough guys. We didn't think we would lose this game." Maryland coach Gary Williams said. "We're going back. We want to do something this year."
"That shot was the biggest one I could hit for this team," said Blake, who had been banished to the bench by coach Gary Williams
just minutes before his key bucket
Maryland (30-4) will play another No.1 seed, Kansas, on Saturday in Atlanta. The Jayhawks beat Oregon 104-86 in the Midwest Regional final.
Just as there was no wild celebration after their regional semifinal win over Kentucky, the Terrapins were again matter of fact after beating Connecticut (27-7) in one of the best games of the NCAA tournament.
Maryland scored the final eight points of the first half to take a 44-37 lead — UConn's biggest deficit of the tourney to that juncture — but sophomore forward Caron Butler brought the Huskies back.
Hehad 26 of his 32 points in the second half, most in a basket-for-basket run with the Terrapins which saw neither team lead by more than three points from the 14-minute mark until the final 36 seconds.
Baxter, the regional's Most Outstanding Player, was 7-for-12 from the field, 15-for-18 from the free throw line and grabbed nine rebounds. He had 24 points and 10 rebounds in the teams' first meeting this season, a 77-65 Maryland victory on Dec. 3.
Tony Robertson had 15 points, and Taliek Brown had 12 for UConn.
The Huskies, who had won 12 games in a row, kept this one close.
Butler, who had a career-high 34 points in last Sunday's second-round victory over North Carolina State, only played 13 minutes in the first half because of foul trouble.
He hit his first three 3-point attempts in the second half, the last of which gave the Huskies a 54-53 lead with 13:11 left.
Chris Wilcox added 13 points for Maryland, which shot 50.9 percent (27-for-53) from the field and was 31-for-35 on free throws.
Baxter gave Maryland the lead for good with a hook shot that made it 81-79 with 2:08 left.
The Terrapin lost to eventual champion Duke in the national semifinals last season — when they made the first Four Tour trip in school history. Now Maryland heads back having won 17 of 18 games, the only loss coming to North Carolina State in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament semifinals.
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