Sorry this is a little late, but I just wanted to take a
moment to congratulate the men’s and women’s NCAA tournament winners.
First, congrats to the Louisville men’s basketball team. Louisville
beat Michigan (who I wanted to win) in the finals, 82-76, for their third title
in school history. They were the no. 1 overall seed in the tournament, and
proved why. As you may recall in their elite eight matchup vs. Duke, Kevin Ware
suffered a brutal leg injury. His team rallied for him and that gave Louisville
the extra boost to beat Duke, and win the tournament for Ware. Kevin Ware was
able to attend the finals game, and is expected to make a full recovery. By
winning this game, Rick Pitino became the first men’s D1 coach to win titles at
two different schools. He also won with Kentucky in 1996.
The women’s winner, the UConn Huskies, defeated the women’s
Louisville squad 93-60 in the finals. That is the largest margin of victory for
a NCAA tournament championship game. Even though Louisville beat Brittney
Griner and the no.1 Lady Bears from Baylor, it still wasn’t enough momentum to
win the tourney. If Louisville would have won, it would have been the second
time the men’s and women’s teams from
the same school won the national championship in the same year. The only other
school to accomplish this was UConn in 2011.
