Rick Pitino became the first coach in NCAA history to win men’s basketball championships with two teams, as his Louisville Cardinals defeated Michigan in the championship game in Atlanta 82-76.
Basketball
By ED GRANEY / RJ
LOUISVILLE (34-5)
vs. MICHIGAN (31-7)
By ED GRANEY / RJ
ATLANTA — The idea was to not miss left. If he did, Tim Henderson would be forced to retrieve the basketball by running down the long ravine that bordered the driveway of his family home, the one sitting on 10 acres of rural Louisville land, the one with a backdrop of nothing but open space and woods, the one where a Final Four hero was born from thousands of jump shots launched into another bright orange sunset.
By ED GRANEY / RJ
This is what one coach in tonight’s national championship of college basketball was asked about Sunday:
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