Written by Ryan Orr<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Starting with 68 teams playing in four different regions, the tournament turned out to be unpredictable.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“I don’t know why I love it each year; I always get mad my picks never win,”senior Peter Bell said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“VCU beat my team [Purdue], so of course I want them to lose,” Bellsaid.<\/p>\n
Out of 68 teams, twowere left standing for the championship: Butler Bull- dogs versus the University of Connecticut.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Featuring talented player Kemba Walker and winning the Maui invitational to start the year, UConn was ready to go.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Butler was looking to prove itself and make up for its loss last year in the championship game against Duke.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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