“From my point of view....I wanted to help them so bad,” Adams, a Manasquan, N.J. native who is one of three UConn commits in Tuesday’s McDonald’s All-American Game (9 p.m., ESPN2), said Monday in Brooklyn. “I wanted to be in that spot. And so I kind of felt the pain, too.”

One of the great NCAA Tournament runs of the modern era came to a close on Sunday with UConn's 77-75 loss to Florida in the second round of the West Region. The Huskies went down not with a whimper but throwing punches,

The UConn Huskies tied the Duke Blue Devils for the second-longest winning streak in the NCAA Tournament history.