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Villanova Championship

When watching March Madness, you always expect the unexpected. There were a lot of upsets during the tournament with very few blowouts. Who would have thought that the blow out would come in the final as Villanova destroyed Michigan to win the N.C.A.A. Championship? Even though Villanova was considered a juggernaut team this year it did not look that way on paper due to no superstar caliber player on the roster. History will say otherwise as people will look back at Villanova and their planned supremacy through the six games played during the tournament as a team that was just a couple of steps ahead of the rest of the multiple slackers in Division I, a group that was forced to view revolutionary basketball play out before them. Villanova did not have to look like the Golden State Warriors hitting eighteen or more three pointers against Michigan. They found other options to get the job done in order to beat the wolverines. Villanova completed the season at the biggest stage blowing

Loyola-College Cinderella Story

Every year in March Madness there is a Cinderella story or a David and Goliath write up. This year, the talk of the tournament is Loyola-Chicago and being ranked 11 th in rankings, the odds are slim to make it into the sweet 16, but they fought through the adversity by knocking out Miami (ranked 6 th ) and Tennessee (ranked 3 rd ).   The three-decade slump of being out of the NCAA tournament has ended and now they face Nevada in order to make it into the elite eight. In Cinderella stories comes with a dedicated fan followed with a write up and this one is named Susana Gomez. She is a senior studying psychology and can personally attest that Rambler craze has spread through out the university campus. The strange thing about it is she had not watched a Loyola basketball game all season, but she was not alone. Average presence at the Joseph J. Gentile Arena sold around 2000 tickets a game, which is less than half capacity. Coach Moser passed out free hot dogs and t-shirts in order to