Ann Arbor, rejoice. The Michigan Wolverines are your twenty-twenty-six NCAA Men’s Basketball Champions — taking down the UConn Huskies, sixty-nine to sixty-three, in a gritty, hard-fought title game Monday night.
Elliot Cadeau carried the Wolverines offensively — nineteen points, shooting nearly forty-six percent, and eight-for-nine from the free throw line when the pressure was at its absolute peak. Morez Johnson Junior gave Michigan a double-double to remember — twelve points and ten rebounds, converting on over seventy percent of his field goal attempts and simply dominating the paint. Yaxel Lendeborg added thirteen points off the wing, and Aday Mara was efficient down low — eight points on seven shots.
The real story? Michigan’s free throw shooting. Twenty-five made out of twenty-eight attempts. You cannot beat a team that locks in like that when it counts.
UConn fought hard — but a thirty-one percent shooting night from the field against Michigan’s defense was simply too much to overcome.
Wolverines. Champions. Final — Michigan sixty-nine, UConn sixty-three
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