Virginia wins its first NCAA basketball championship, defeating Texas Tech

MINNEAPOLIS — Virginia, a nice tortoise of an app with a warmish 114-year history, a bent for deliberative basketball along with an unthinkable splat of 13 weeks ago, spent Monday night scaling the final jagged rungs to a pinnacle. When finally it made the closing, agonizing measures in overtime, attained the very top and looked around, it knew a feeling long associated only with other people such as Duke or North Carolina, the neighboring hares that constantly left it among the overshadowed.
It was the first first-time men’s college basketball national champion in 13 decades, and could see back across the landscape of one hell of a story. It could see Texas Tech, the finalist Virginia outlasted by 85-77 in that overtime, a team so great it’d struck the NCAA tournament like some fantastic wind coming from the large plains of Lubbock, felling Michigan State, Gonzaga, Michigan and Buffalo.
Gaze back from up high, and Virginia may see the carnival of drama which helped it twist out of doom in life-shortening games against Purdue, Auburn and Texas Tech. Squint more difficult, and it could see back to March 2018, when Virginia became the first No. 1 seed in tournament history to lose to a No. 16 seed, a bewildering 74-54 thud from Maryland Baltimore County, the nadir of a five years of tortured Marches. Yet right in front, it could see the droves in orange and blue in U.S. Bank Stadium, reveling as sound cascaded from fans who rarely dared dream of such a thing.

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