MINNEAPOLIS – So when did you figure Virginia would choke?
That’s what the Cavaliers do, right? They don’t win national championships. That’s North Carolina’s job. Or Duke’s. But here we are, on the morning after the night of their lives, and let this truth swirl around in your champagne glass:
No team in NCAA tournament history had more chances to choke than this year’s Cavaliers. And they never did. A year ago, they lost to UMBC in the biggest upset (by seed) in tournament history, but they spent the last three weeks showing enough poise to make a sword-juggling tightrope-walker jealous.