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The NCAA Men’s Championship started with 68 teams and many dreams of March Madness.
Three weeks and 66 games later, we are ready in the national championship game on Monday, where fun will reach the end of it Florida and Houston meeting in San Antonio.
It was an interesting and unusual championship, one of Sinfralas, which is very heavy on the dominance of large conferences. All four seeds number have arrived in Final Four, and now we will have a title game with two of them, as well as a wonderful collection of the American Professional League stars in the future.
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FloridaHouston will broadcast Monday at 8:50 pm East on CBS.
If you are new to The Madness, here is an overview of the last two teams.
Florida (35-4)
The Gators will look forward to securing the third national championship, the first since Billy Donovan Florida led to a successive championship in 2006 and 2007.
Florida got here through Oborn 79-73 in a narrow final match, which included 15 bullets and 10 links. Star goalkeeper Walter Clayton Junior got 34 points from the profession to lead the Gators team, to become only the fifteenth player in the modern era (1984-1985) to score 30 or more in the fourth match for men. He is the only Florida player in that list.
Florida Oborn, the highest total seed in the tournament, was delayed by 8 points at the end of the first half before raising its match in the second half, just as it did against Texas Tech in Elite Eight and VS. Uconn in the second round.
Clayton scored 20 points from 34 points in the second half-including a three-point play with 93 seconds remaining Florida gave a decisive pillow of six points.
This is the first appearance of coach Todd Golden in the tournament game, and it comes only in his third season that leads the program.
The Gators team tops a series of 11 games, won the SEC conference and then holds this momentum through great dance. Florida is not defeated outside the SEC play, where she only lost to the competitors of the conference Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri.
Florida has a deep list, after it has entered the last four, with an average of five players at least 9.8 points for each game. But Clayton was the late man in this tournament. Before its huge four match, senior 6 feet and 3 points scored 30 points-8 of them in the last 107 seconds-by defeating Texas Tech in the eighth elite. It is not a shock that he has compared comparisons with the American Professional League star Steve Curry.
Florida goalkeeper Walter Clayton Junior is the first player since Larry Bird with successive games of 30 points in the eighth elite and the national semi -finals.
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Houston (35-4)
Houston appears in the national championship game For the third time, although the chopper is still looking for their first title. Two other appearances came in Houston in 1983 and 1984, when he lost to NC State and Georgetown, respectively. Hakeem Olajuwon played on these two teams, and played Clyde Drexler along with Olajuwon in the 1983 team.
Houston arrived here by directing Duke with a dramatic return late in the final. The Blue Devils led 64-55 with 3:04 survival, but the chopped carried a Duke on three points-all on free throws-from there while collecting an angry gathering and came out with a victory 70-67. LJ Cryer, a transportation from Baylor, led Houston with 26 points while shooting 6 against 9 of 3 points. Duke, who missed eight of the last nine shots, was led by the star of Cooper’s student. I topped all the scorers with 27 points, but it was held in front of 8 against 19 shooting from the field.
Under the leadership of coach Kelvin Sampson, the Big 12 conference champion is known for defending them, as he led the nation by allowing only 58.3 points for each game. But this version of the cot can be filled, thanks to a multi -use menu that includes four intermediate players in scoring.
Before confronting Duke, Houston had a difficult in the Middle West, where she had to get rid of Tennessee, No. 2 (69-50), Bordeaux, No. 4 (62-60), and Junzaga, No. 4 (81-76), and Siu Edwardsville No. 8 (78-40).
Houston lost only once since the beginning of December, an additional loss against Texas Technology on February 1. Sampson went to the last four times, but this is his first visit to the tournament game.
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