After 20-year drought, Kansas rallies to beat Memphis for NCAA title

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KU Wins; Somewhere Roy Williams Cries Softly
Published 4/8/2008 by J Money at Boiled Sports
... I can't even imagine what it feels like to see your school win a national title... so congrats Kansas fans. This must be amazing, especially to win such a terrific championship game. ...

Kansas Chalks Memphis’ Outline On Court
Published 4/8/2008 by Signal to Noise at Signal to Noise
... Yes, Memphis did blow this game. You can’t be up by 7 with two minutes left, have the opportunity to put the game out of reach by hitting free throws and missing four of the last five attempts, and you certainly can’t fuck up an obvious chance to foul and force Kansas to intentionally miss a free throw. That said, it means nothing if Kansas isn’t good enough to take advantage of the errata, the wear and tear on a six-man Memphis rotation, and the absence of Joey Dorsey late due to fouling out. And let’s not forget: Chris Douglas-Roberts and Derrick Rose ...

A Walk Around Blue Heaven; Kansas Wins the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship
Published 4/8/2008 by JC at Stet Sports Blog
... There was no underlying story line of sultry blues against the heartland. We weren't overly bombarded with the message of Goliath-come-lately versus Goliath-Always-and-Forever. Memphis and Kansas met last night without any scintillating story line, and offered up a game for the ages. ...

Rock Chalk Champio... what, was that already taken?
Published 4/8/2008 by Hermano at We Suck at Sports
A shot that will live in infamy. For Memphis, at least. For a tournament that sorely lacked that One Shining Moment without Stephen Curry, the championship game made up for it in spades. Only the seventh overtime contest in the NCAA Championship history proved to us what we figured all along - the top ...

What’s next for Bill Self
Published 4/8/2008 by tidefanintn at Third Saturday in Blogtober
... ESPN linked the box score for the game with the tag “Memphis doomed by missed FTs.“  It’s the same line every writer in the country has scribbled across his notebook and then scratched out as Memphis ignored the fact that they can’t shoot from the charity stripe by simply beating everyone everywhere else.  Maybe it finally caught up to them.  Or maybe Bill Self actually deserves some credit finally. ...

Monday's Action
Published 4/8/2008 by Seth at Enjoy the Enjoyment
... Kansas 75, Memphis 68 [ESPN]: Memphis finally got a taste of the free-throw disasters that bedeviled the Huskies--but the Dawgs never fumbled away a game as badly as this. What a painful, painful loss--I can't think of a Northwest equivalent. To be that close to a championship and then lose it? Ouch, ouch, ouch. Meanwhile, after hitting that tying three, Mario Chalmers is guaranteed a free meal in every Kansas restaurant for life. ...

WVMountaineerSports Bracket Challenge comes down to OT too!
Published 4/8/2008 by MountaineerBob at WVMountaineerSports.com
... in the bracket challenge. It was actually a tie between the two. In all the years of doing fantasy football and these types of challenges I’ve never seen a dead tie like this, especially in the NCAA Tourney Bracket Challenge. Luckily there was a tiebreaker question: What will the final score of the Championship game be? WVUBB1 guessed: 73 - 69 Let’s Go Mountaineers guessed:  80 - 72 The final score of the game was Kansas 75 - Memphis 68 so WVUBB1 wins in the tiebreaker and in OT. I hope everyone had ...

SportsBrief - April 8
Published 4/8/2008 by Matt Olson at SportsHubLA
Y E S T E R D A Y . . . Kansas 75, Memphis 68 (OT) : Wow. This game had absolutely nothing to do with SoCal sports, but was about as riveting a game as I’ve seen in a very long time. You had Memphis, minutes, hell, even seconds away from a national campionship when that ...

Mario Chalmers sends NCAA championship game to OT: Super Mario saves the day
Published 4/8/2008 by houroc at SportFiends
... It was a good night for Kansas Jayhawks fans. Their team won the National Championship for the first time in 20 years, the ...