Written by Ryan Orr
This year, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament lived up to its name, March Madness. ESPN’s bracket challenge revealed only two people in the world correctly chose the Final Four teams.
Starting with 68 teams playing in four different regions, the tournament turned out to be unpredictable.
“I don’t know why I love it each year; I always get mad my picks never win,”senior Peter Bell said.
The most intriguing story from this tournament was the success of the VCU Rams, defeating Georgetown University, Purdue University, Florida State University and the University of Kansas.
Making it to the Final Four as an 11th seeded team has only happened twice before with Louisiana State University in 1986 and George Mason University in 2006.
“VCU beat my team [Purdue], so of course I want them to lose,” Bellsaid.
Out of 68 teams, twowere left standing for the championship: Butler Bull- dogs versus the University of Connecticut.
Featuring talented player Kemba Walker and winning the Maui invitational to start the year, UConn was ready to go.
Butler was looking to prove itself and make up for its loss last year in the championship game against Duke.
The championship game got off to a slow start for both teams, since their combined score was the smallest score ever made in the final game, with Butler at 22 and UConn at 19.
Down three points coming out of half, UConn’s star Walker took over. Scoring a team high of 16 points, he led his team to the win. He had some help from Butler though; they ended the game shooting a record low 18.8 percent from the field, good for the lowest shooting percentage in the history of the men’s title game.
