Posted on 04/05/2015 1:05:02 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
".....The hard-nosed Wisconsin Badgers did what nobody else could Saturday night — knocking off the Wildcats 71-64 behind 20 points and 11 rebounds from Frank Kaminsky and a clutch comeback down the stretch.
Now, it's Wisconsin heading to the final to play Duke, an 81-61 winner over Michigan State in the earlier — and much less entertaining — semifinal.
"It gives us another 40 minutes, I know that," said Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan, who leads the Badgers to their first final since 1941.
And Kentucky has a long ride home, finishing the season at 38-1 — two wins short of becoming the first undefeated team in college basketball since the 1975-76 Indiana Hoosiers. Instead, these NBA-ready group of Wildcats join the star-studded 1991 UNLV team as the latest to take an undefeated record into the Final Four but lose in the semifinals....."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
This was the question that overtook college basketball as the Kentucky Wildcats won their first 38 games of the season and inched closer to the sport’s first undefeated season in decades. They seemed so invincible at times that many believed the first 40-0 record ever was inevitable.
But now there is an unexpected answer: Yes, someone can beat Kentucky, and someone’s name is Wisconsin.
Wisconsin beat Kentucky, 71-64, eliminating the Wildcats and ending their unbeaten season Saturday night in a classic NCAA tournament game. Wisconsin advances to Monday’s national championship against Duke here in Lucas Oil Stadium.
Wisconsin (36-3) winning usually isn’t an upset. This is a team that was in the Final Four last season and was even better this season with the most efficient offense of any team in at least the past decade.
But they were up against the Kentucky team that couldn’t lose. Kentucky wasn’t just playing for a potential national championship. The Wildcats were aiming for basketball immortality. A win on Monday would have crowned Kentucky as one of the greatest teams this sport had ever seen......" WSJ
Go Badgers! Beat them Blue Devils!!!
bttt!
Good news for Ashley Judd. Kentucky fans won’t have to spend money in Indiana for two more days.
Yeah, but did you hear? Indiana is the new Saudi Arabia, where homosexuals are executed. The media says so, so it must be true!
“The Wildcats were aiming for basketball immortality.”
May Hillary’s aim for the presidential brass ring and immortality be similarly out of reach!
Once Golf-One picked Kentucky, their doom was sealed. That Scott Walker’s team knocked them off makes it sweeter.
I certainly does.
“Golf-One”
: )
Wow, Obama sure has the magic gift doesn’t he?
Same loser’s touch that worked wonders for the Chicago Olympics bid.
No wonder all the Dem candidates want to avoid him like the plague.
Kentucky seemed to struggle the past couple of games. Maybe the pressure started getting to them.
Obviously a win by a bunch of white racists keeping the black man from winning what he is owed. /sar
And the Hoosiers still hold the record as last team to win it all with an undefeated year. (Thanks to another Big Ten school !)
So congratulation Badgers the Hoosierstate salutes you!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zOYus1BE7jk
I must agree that Watching Wisconsin defeat Kentucky was much more entertaining than watching the Cinderella Spartans implode. Now Wisconsin needs to spank Duke on Monday.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. No more news blubs from some nitwit who has to attach some political or pro fag agenda onto what is a National Sporting event.
I am also happy my bracket is alive!
The big dog in the east was usually the ACC champ, who usually got an argument from a couple of scrappy independents from the northeast. The west was the PAC 10 champ and then was hollow; that was one of the keys to UCLA's long run. The Midwest had the Big Eight, and then fell off quickly. The Mideast had the Big Ten and SEC champs. Then it had more than its share of the dangerous mid-majors, i.e. Louisville, Cincinnati, Dayton, Butler, etc. Plus Notre Dame and Marquette, which were then at the peak of the Digger Phelps and Al McGuire eras.
The Indiana draw that year was brutal. They couldn't play number 1, because they were number 1, but they played though a regional that was tougher than the final four. With national seeding, that cannot happen today.
Obama curse continues.
I did not mind Kentucky but as for so much hype, if going undefeated meant they could be considered among the best ever, that was a bit over-the-top for me. In a way, any of these teams, different eras, can make an argument for being considered among the best. And in the end, I don’t really care about “the best” argument.
So, they say, college teams were better in the early ‘90s for instance, maybe. It still makes for an interesting conversation though this is what they fill sports talk radio with. Always hunting for controversy.
I’m not for Duke, but MSU definitely got manhandled. So we will see how this final goes.
There go Monday’s TV ratings...
Go Duke!!!! Skin them badgers!!!
;)
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