Adama Sanogo is now a UConn legend and has the national championship ball to prove it

HOUSTON — As the next great UConn big man ascended Monday night, bound for a net half-dangling off the NRG Stadium’s north rim, Emeka Okafor paused and held out a hand. The kid from Mali who was a soccer player until he was 15, who didn’t even want to come to America at first, cutting his strand of nylon as midnight struck back east. The ballast for a national champion. The NCAA Tournament’s most outstanding player. Everything the Huskies needed, whenever they needed it. A sight that defied description. So a gesture had to do. Adama Sanogo’s moment arrived, and…