Louisville Wins Title

Louisville will finally cut down the nets tonight by defeating the Michigan Wolverines by a score of 82-76. What a fun, exciting game it was to watch. The game was a lot closer than the final score. Siva, Smith played hard, taking control of the game. At one point, Louisville was down by 12 points to the Wolverines, but went on a 15-1 run with Burke on the bench with two fouls. Albrect, for Michigan came into the game to replace Burke for the second half and played unbelievable in the first half. At the half, Michigan clung to a one point lead.

In the second half, both teams let it all out and the intensity level was maxed. There was several lead changes, Michigan took a big lead. Not as big as their 12 point lead in the first half, but Luke Hancock went on a 14 point run to push the Cardinals into the lead for good. Beanana was the difference on the offensive boards. Just a great game all around.

As for our Bracket Champion, congratulations goes out to Melissa Cuddihy and her 159 points. With a 68% pick percentage, she did all right in the first two rounds, but dominated the final four rounds by correctly picking 10 of the final 15 games. In my 17th year of running this tournament, my wife enters her first bracket. She is now 1 for 1, I'm 0 for 17. You gotta love it. I really enjoyed watch some of the games with her this year and listening to her root for the teams.

Second place will go to Steve Mason, 141 points 65% pick percentage. Third place honor will be Todd Swank and his 140 points, 67%. In the newly added 4th, 5th and 6th place: Nick Rahman, Krys Williams, Thongla Phommachack.