ATLANTA—After all the anarchy of the 2012-13 college basketball season, after five different teams traded the No. 1 position in the AP poll over the course of four and a half months, after the team holding that ranking as the NCAA Tournament began was eliminated just two games in, after the historic TCU upset over Kansas and the three-way tie for the Big East championship and the nearly four-way tie in the Big Ten and the five-overtime game, after one Final Four coach was fired just weeks removed from winning a conference title and the Final Four coach who beat that coach in the NCAAs also was dismissed, who might have imagined the conclusion to this spectacle would be so conventional?
No. 1 vs. No. 1: Michigan, which fields the best offense in NCAA basketball, battling Louisville, which plays the best defense, Monday at 9:23 p.m. at the Georgia Dome.
Well, that’s not wacky at all.
This is more or less as it’s supposed to be—a couple of excellent basketball teams working to determine whose strengths can be made to matter more, whose weaknesses can be most ably disguised.
by Sporting News
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