So Close: 3 Ways Memphis Could Have Won the NCAA Championship

            In the aftermath of last night’s delightfully entertaining championship game, some people would prefer to point the most obvious shortcoming on the losing team’s squad and hold that flaw up as the only reason they lost the game.   That would be too easy and wouldn’t be the reason you read these here articles.  Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying that free throws don’t matter in close games (yikes, sorry Ken) or that Memphis shouldn’t have fouled on that last play as instructed by John Calipari.             Instead, why don’t we dig a little deeper into the Memphis, for lack of a better word, meltdown? Put on your Monday morning quarterbacking helmet and let’s eschew any journalistic pretense and pursue this via bullet point format (I’ll number them too!).  Even if Memphis continues to miss ... [link]