NCAA Final Four 2026: UConn star Tarris Reed will face an extremely familiar opponent in the title game
The choices Tarris Reed made led him here: to NCAA Tournament stardom and to the national title game, against his old school.
NCAA Final Four 2026: UConn star Tarris Reed will face an extremely familiar opponent in the title game originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . INDIANAPOLIS – It has been slightly more than two years since Tarris Reed’s sophomore season ended as he picked up a fifth personal foul in a dismal loss to Penn State in the deepest corners of the Big Ten Tournament.
It was the 24 th defeat he’d experienced that season. His coach was fired two days later. This was what March tasted like to him.
Now, Reed is playing Monday night for the NCAA Championship. And he’s facing the school where he lost 40 games in two years. Is this one of those “storyline” games the NCAA selection committee supposedly arranges?
UConn (Reed’s new school) vs. Michigan (Reed’s former school). MARCH MADNESS HQ: Live NCAA bracket | TV schedule | Latest news and more Yes, he chose the Huskies in part because they’d just won two national titles in a row and he’d never seen the inside of March Madness.
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