Yes!!!!

What a terrible, terrible game. I'll give UConn credit though they play some smothering defense

it was pretty boring and low scoring.

i think there were many better teams in the bracket this year that just played poor games when it matters.

oh well, heres to next march

What is usually a strength of the tournament (the fact that there can be huge upsets due to the single-elimination style) made for a really boring, low quality championship game.

Usually a couple top teams bow out because of the randomness of it, while other top tier teams make it because they're still just better than everyone else they play. This year all the great teams played a bad game and lost.

Not to say UConn wasn't a good team, but they certainly weren't as good as Kansas or OSU.

That's okay though because ultimately there was still something exciting about a championship game where it actually seemed possible that an 8-seed mid-major team like Butler might actually win the national championship. Last year when they played Duke, I never had any faith that Butler would really win.

UConn won the Maui Invitational, Big East Tournament, and NCAA Tournament, went 17-0 in out of conference games including beating Kentucky, Michigian St, Tennessee, Texas, and San Diego St

you beat who you play or you go home. UConn was the team standing at the end not Kansas or OSU. UConn beat the team that sent OSU home and beat the team that beat the team that sent Kansas home. In the final game, UConn's defense devastated Butler's offense. Boring can mean bad offense but it also can mean good defense. In this case, we saw a mediocre offense get crushed by superb defense.

was a great game

If anyone watches/listens to Mike and Mike in the morning, the producer Liam, they often call his mother (a drunken British woman) to pick games, and before the whole tournament started, her championship game pick was:

UConn over Butler
53-39

Uncanny that a random British woman who knows virtually nothing about sports was able to pick the correct teams, the correct winner, the correct winner's score and only be off by 2 points on the loser's score (53-41).

Of course, it shows it's all dumb luck with just a little bit of actual "skill" at picking occasionally being helpful.

And Kyle, while everything you say is true about UConn, you're also cherry-picking the positive stats. They were also a 9-loss team with 4 home losses. Not to say they didn't have some great accomplishments, but they also had their stumbles, too. When I compare them to Ohio State and their resume, OSU only lost 3 games all year, and two of those games were against ranked top-tier Big 10 opponents (Purdue and Wisconsin) on the road. The third was in the NCAA Tournament.

I'm not saying UConn was a bad team, by any means, simply that outside OSU and Kansas, there wasn't really a top-tier of teams that on paper looked like they were vastly superior to everyone else. Basically making the point that there was enough parity that when the top two teams went down in what I would consider huge upsets (especially Kansas to VCU...) that there weren't other head-and-shoulders-above-the-rest teams that were stepping up and dominating the field, leading to a 3, 4, 8 and 11 seed field for the Final 4.

I'm SOOOO glad UK beat OSU. Not only do I hate OSU, and feel they're usually overrated. The fact that UK pulled it together in the tournaments (SEC and NCAA) makes me happy. While they fell short of the championship game, they certainly didn't get blown out by uconn again.

everyone who trains MMA claims to be a big shot fighter.

what bar was this? guessing somewhere in the 203 based on where you told me you were last DJing.