Tom Cruise Watched UConn Beat Maryland

It was unclear who Cruise, a Syracuse native, was pulling for, though Sue Bird had a theory.

Perhaps the biggest story to come out of UConn's 81-58 win over Maryland in Sunday's Final Four wasn't that margin of victory -- the Huskies beat opponents by more than 30 points a game, on average, this season -- it's that Tom Cruise was in a suite about the Terrapins bench taking in the game.

It was unclear who Cruise, a Syracuse native, was pulling for, though Sue Bird had a theory:

Either way, Breanna Stewart, also a Syracuse native, had no idea Cruise was in the building.

"No. Where was he? Oh, my gosh," she said after the game, via the Associated Press. "I didn't even get to meet him."

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