It's been nearly four years since Louisville and Michigan played one of the best national championship games in recent memory. There is just one player who saw the court in that game who is still playing college basketball, and he was one of the evening's most prominent stars.
Averaging just 1.8 ppg heading into the championship game, backup Michigan point guard Spike Albrecht stunned the sports world by lighting Louisville up with 17 first half points to help the Wolverines gain the upper hand early in the contest. To put the unlikelihood of the performance in some perspective, Albrecht had scored just 24 total points in his team's 19 Big Ten Conference games, and in the Wolverines' previous five NCAA Tournament games, he'd totaled just 19 points.