{"id":20583,"date":"2013-04-11T14:16:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T18:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20583"},"modified":"2013-04-11T14:16:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T18:16:27","slug":"louisville-beats-michigan-82-76-for-ncaa-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20583","title":{"rendered":"Louisville Beats Michigan 82-76 For NCAA Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2014 <strong>Rick Pitino<\/strong> held court in a tunnel beneath the Georgia Dome, going on and on about the grittiest bunch of guys he\u2019s ever coached. One of them sat in the corner of the locker room, a net around his neck, grinning away. The Louisville Cardinals vowed to finish the job for <strong>Kevin Ware<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, did they ever. With their injured teammate cheering them on from the bench, Louisville capped its run through the NCAA tournament, coming back again from a 12-point deficit to beat Michigan 82-76 in the championship game Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are my brothers,\u201d said <strong>Ware<\/strong>, still getting around on crutches after a horrific injury in the regional final. \u201cThey got the job done. I\u2019m so proud of them, so proud of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ware <\/strong>is just getting started on what could be a yearlong recovery from a broken right leg, but he\u2019s already got something no one can take away \u2014 a championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2014 Rick Pitino held court in a tunnel beneath the Georgia Dome, going on and on about the grittiest bunch of guys he\u2019s ever coached. One of them sat in the corner of the locker room, a net around his neck, grinning away. The Louisville Cardinals vowed to finish the job for Kevin Ware. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}