A college basketball journey that began on an aircraft carrier in San Diego last November ended in New Orleans last night as Kentucky defeated Kansas 67-59 to win their first national championship since 1998 and their fourth in the modern era of the NCAA Tournament, which started in 1976. TheSportsNotebook looks back on Monday night’s finale…
There’s one game left to decide a national championship, as Kentucky and Kansas get set to tip it off in the Big Easy tonight (9:12 PM ET, CBS). You know we can run the evaluations of each team’s personnel and how they matchup—and we’ll get to that in a moment, but if a sporting event can ever be best captured by going to The Godfather for inspiration, TheSportsNotebook is all for it, and that’s where our discussion of the 2012 NCAA final has to begin.