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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — There was a point in the first half Tuesday night when the Louisville shots finally stopped thudding off the rim and started finding the net. Meanwhile, the Michigan shots kept missing. And when the lead grew to 24-9, the sound in the Yum Center was an echo of the roars from seven seasons ago.
Louisville won the NCAA championship in 2012-13, kind of. You won’t see any trappings of that title in the building—they’ve been expunged by sanctions incurred from the infamous strippers-in-the-basketball-dorm scandal. Vacating that title hit the passionate fans of this city in the gut, and they still haven’t gotten over it.