A resolution commending and congratulating the University of Connecticut men's basketball team for winning the 2024 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Basketball Championship.

Bill: 118-sres-790
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2024-07-31
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Congressional tributes

Connecticut

School athletics
Latest action: action_date: 2024-07-31
text: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5658; text: CR S5689)

Summaries:
action_date: 2024-07-31
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This resolution commends the University of Connecticut men's basketball team for winning the 2024 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Basketball Championship.</p>

action_date: 2024-07-31
action_desc: Passed Senate
text: <p>This resolution commends the University of Connecticut men's basketball team for winning the 2024 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Basketball Championship.</p>

tv_txt: III 118th CONGRESS 2d Session S. RES. 790 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 31, 2024 Mr. Blumenthal (for himself and Mr. Murphy ) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to RESOLUTION Commending and congratulating the University of Connecticut men’s basketball team for winning the 2024 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Championship.

Whereas, on Monday, April 8, 2024, the University of Connecticut’s men’s basketball team (referred to in this preamble as the UConn Huskies ) won the 2024 National Collegiate Athletic Association (referred to in this preamble as the NCAA ) Men’s Basketball Championship with a 75–60 win over the Purdue University Boilermakers; Whereas this is the UConn Huskies’ sixth national championship, continuing the team’s undefeated streak in national championship games; Whereas this is the UConn Huskies’ second consecutive national championship, becoming only the eighth NCAA Division I men’s basketball team to accomplish this feat; Whereas the UConn Huskies earned all 6 national titles since 1999, a feat that no other college team has surpassed during that time; Whereas Tristen Newton was named the Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA tournament, averaging 14.5 points per game; Whereas the UConn Huskies won every NCAA tournament game by 14 points or more for a second straight year and set the record this year for the largest margin of victory over its 6-game run with 140 combined points; and Whereas, because the University of Connecticut is also home to the most successful NCAA Division I women’s basketball program, having won a record 11 national championships and appearing in their twenty-third Final Four this year, Storrs, Connecticut, is the Basketball Capital of the World: Now, therefore, be it

That the Senate— (1) commends the University of Connecticut men’s basketball team for winning the 2024 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Championship; (2) congratulates the fans, students, and faculty of the University of Connecticut; and (3) respectfully requests that the Secretary of the Senate transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution to— (A) the President of the University of Connecticut, Radenka Maric; and (B) the Head Coach of the University of Connecticut men’s basketball team, Dan Hurley.