In the battle between the nation’s best (Villanova) and hottest (Michigan) teams, it was the latter who started Monday’s NCAA men’s national championship game right on script. The Wolverines led by 7 about a quarter into the game, and it looked like Michigan was tracking for a title-game upset that would rank alongside Syracuse over Kansas in 2003, UConn over Duke in 1999 and Arizona over Kentucky in 1997.1
Just to name a few comparable upsets from recent memory.
Soon, though, reality set in, and the superior Wildcats asserted themselves.