MAIZE and BLUE come out the GATE on Fire only to run into COOL-HAND LUKE and the CARDS in the End...L'VILLE gets CHIP #3 as they beat UM 82-76...Cool-Hand LUKE HANCOCK Final 4 M.O.P...PITINO first Coach to win Chips at Two Schools (UK in '96 n VILLE '13)

For starters the game should have been played with only UM's Spike Albrecht vs Louisville's Luke Hancock.  One on One with first player to 22 wins. The final tally of that game was Hancock 22 points and Albrecht 17 points. The Game though may have been decided in the 1st half as John R. Wooden Award Winner Michigan's Trey Burke sat for 12 minutes in the 1st half due to having two fouls. Yes Spike Albrecht played lights out but UM needed Burke as he has been there Driver all year.

Fast Forward to the 2nd half  and it was Trey Burke vs Peyton Siva as they traded blows back and forth the only problem was Siva had Hancock and Behanan step up big as the Wolverines really didn't have anyone do the same and that was the difference in the game. Burke had 24 points and three assists as both Hardaway Jr. and Robinson III netted 12 apiece. The Play on the Glass by Louisville Super-Soph Chane Behanan and the big-time shot-making and plays by Luke Hancock had Louisville on a wave that couldn't slow down. Hancock five for five from the Arc and Behanan 15 points, twelve rebounds , and seven offensive rebounds were huge. Not to be out down was Cards Junior Center Gorgui Dieng who had 8 points, eight boards, and six helpers with three blocks while looking like a young Dikembe Mutumbo of Hoya Paranoia...Georgetown.      

Louisville was +7 on the Offensive Rebounds which equates to seven more possessions. They also had eighteen assists to Michigan's twelve assists was huge in key junctures of the game. The "Ville get Chip #3 as former Cards Coach and Legend Denny Crum won in 1980 with Darrell "Dr. Dunkenstien" Griffith and in 1986 with Freshman Pervis "Never Nervous" Ellison.

What a day for Coach Rick Pitino elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame, the Cards bring a Chip back to the 'Ville, and a horse headed to the Kentucky Derby and that would be a Pitino Trifecta if he could pull that off a winner at the Derby.

Congrats to the Louisville Cardinals as the last Two National Champions has been Kentucky Blue or Kentucky Red....Imagine that!