Gonzaga guard Micah Downs, left, steals the ball from Connecticut center Hasheem Thabeet, of Tanzania, right, as Gonzaga's Josh Heytvelt, second from left, looks on in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday at KeyArena in Seattle. (The Associated Press)
Connecticut forward Jeff Adrien celebrates Connecticut's 88-83 overtime win over Gonzaga. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) (Ted Warren / The Spokesman-Review)
Gonzaga guard Steven Gray drives to the hoop as Connecticut's Jeff Adrien, right, and Jerome Dyson, left, defend in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008, at KeyArena in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) (Ted Warren / The Spokesman-Review)
The Connecticut bench cheers late in Connecticut's 88-83 overtime win over Gonzaga. (Ted Warren / The Spokesman-Review)
Mike Terry, 21 of Spokane, works to free his car from under a snow berm near the corner of 8th and McClellan on Friday. It took Terry 2 1/2 hours to dig out the 1999 Acura and the first 15minutes were spend just finding the car.
(Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)
UConn forward Jeff Adrien puts up a shot as Gonzaga forward Austin Daye, right, and Connecticut forward Stanley Robinson, left, look on. (Ted Warren / The Spokesman-Review)
Gonzaga Bulldogs vs. UConn Huskies. Huskies won in OT, 88-83.
SEATTLE – Connecticut guard A.J. Price wasn’t exactly open. He was trying to draw a foul. When that didn’t happen, he made a tough, off-balance 3-pointer over Gonzaga’s Jeremy Pargo. Price’s clutch shot sent the game into overtime, where the Huskies completed their comeback while the Bulldogs were running short of bodies. No. 2 Connecticut pulled away for an 88-83 victory in the sixth annual Battle in Seattle on Saturday, snatching a win that the eighth-ranked Bulldogs appeared to have in their grasp.
After leading by as many as 12 points, the No. 8 Gonzaga Bulldogs ran into a big problem at Key Arena in Seattle - second-ranked UConn. The Huskies forced overtime this afternnon and held off a Zags squad depleted by fouls to win the Battle in Seattle by a score of 88-83.