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The pundits have declared it, so it’s fact. Virginia, Texas Tech, national championship game, it’s going to be boring, the beginning of the end of college basketball as we know it.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Some teams like to run and make it near impossible for opponents to keep up. Other teams like to slow it down — and make it near impossible for opponents to keep up.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Mamadi Diakite doesn’t like jumping into murky water. If he can’t see the bottom, he doesn’t want to go in. It’s a reasonable apprehension. As he said Friday with a smile coming to his face, he doesn’t want to be “surprised.”
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MINNEAPOLIS — Somewhere in a New York suburb late in the night of April 7, 2008, Ty Jerome was supposed to be sleeping. But he couldn’t sleep now. Not with Kansas and Memphis duking it out for the national championship, even on a school night, even with the clock ticking later and later into the…
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Virginia coach Tony Bennett and players Ty Jerome and Kyle Guy talk with reporters ahead of the national-title game Monday against Texas Tech.
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Texas Tech coach Chris Beard and players Norense Odiase and Jarrett Culver preview the national title game against Virginia.
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MINNEAPOLIS — For the right individuals, Tony Bennett is a players’ coach. He starred in college and spent time in the NBA. The son of a college coach, he knows the trials and tribulations of the coaching profession — not the least of which is dealing with his players.
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MINNEAPOLIS — If you believe the PA announcer, the Virginia Cavaliers had lost. Their magical season had run out of magic. Storybook endings were just that — for storybooks.
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The NCAA has released a statement from J.D. Collins, the national coordinator of officiating, on the call at the end of the 63-62 Virginia win over Auburn in the Final Four that sent Kyle Guy to the free-throw line for the eventual game-winning points.
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Kyle Guy made three free throws with six-tenths of a second left, lifting Virginia to an improbable 63-62 win over Auburn Saturday in the Final Four, and sending the ‘Hoos to their first national championship game in program history.
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