Virginia wins its first NCAA basketball championship, defeating Texas Tech

MINNEAPOLIS — Virginia, a fine tortoise of a program with a warmish 114-year history, a knack for deliberative basketball along with also an unthinkable splat of 13 months ago, spent Monday night climbing the final jagged rungs into a pinnacle. When finally it made the final, agonizing steps in overtime, attained the top and looked about, it understood a feeling associated only with others such as Duke or North Carolina, the neighboring hares that always left it one of the overshadowed.
It had become the first first-time men’s college basketball national winner in 13 decades, and could see back through the landscape of one hell of a story. It could see Texas Tech, the finalist Virginia outlasted from 85-77 in that , a group so good it’d struck the NCAA tournament like some great wind coming from the high plains of Lubbock, felling Michigan State, Gonzaga, Michigan and Buffalo.
Gaze back from up high, and Virginia could observe the carnival of plays that helped it wriggle from doom in life-shortening matches against Purdue, Auburn and Texas Tech. Squint harder, and it might observe back to March 2018, when Virginia became the first No. 1 seed in tournament history to lose to a No. 16 seed, a bewildering 74-54 thud against Maryland Baltimore County, the nadir of a five decades of tortured Marches. Yet right in front, it might see the droves in orange and blue in U.S. Bank Stadium, reveling as sound cascaded from lovers who rarely dared dream of anything.

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