Tuesday’s column from CBS Chicago …
(CBS) Well, the Big Ten had its chance.
But like the Chicago Cubs – OK, OK, it’s not that bad – the league’s title drought carries on.
On Monday night, Louisville and Michigan waged an NCAA Championship battle that was as electrifying as any in recent memory, but in the end it was the Wolverines who eventually ran out of juice, losing 82-76 to the powerhouse Cardinals.
“A lot of the times, when you get to the championship, the game is not always great,” Louisville coach Rick Pitino said after his team had cut down the nets. “This was a great basketball game.”
Indeed it was. And its outcome allowed Louisville to bring the national title back to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, a state that now has two more championships in the past two years than the entire Big Ten Conference has over the past 13.
“This game hurts so much,” Michigan star Trey Burke said afterward. He was talking of course about the pain being felt inside Michigan’s locker room and around Ann Arbor, but the sting of Monday’s loss actually spread throughout most of the Big Ten.
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