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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I know how good they are, but I don't know how they play."
— Kentucky coach John Calipari on UConn
FACT OF THE DAY
UConn is the first seventh-seeded team to reach the National Championship.
CBSSports.com
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q. Which three No. 8 seeds have reached the National Championship?
A: Villanova (1985), Butler (2011) and Kentucky (2014)
ESPN.com
THE MORNING BREW
NCAA Tournament has more surprises than usual this year
Unpredictability can be the best form of excitement when it comes to sports. The NCAA
Tournament is always full of upsets and surprises. But 2014 is unlike any other year in college basketball.
Notable early upsets in this year's tournament feature No.14 Mercer over No.3 Duke,No.11 Dayton over No.6 Ohio State and No.10 Stanford over No.2 Kansas.
But that was just the beginning of the stunners in this tournament. Fast forward to the Final Four.
No.1 Florida and No.2 Wisconsin were the favorites from a seeding standpoint to win during Saturday's Final Four. But because of the surge from No.7 Connecticut and No.8 Kentucky, basketball fanatics were unsure who would survive and make it to tonight.
Much like the early part of March Madness, the upsets carried over into
early April as Connecticut and Kentucky came out victorious.
tucky came out victorious. Due to the high uncertainty of everything leading up to tonight, national pundits have no confidence in their predictions for tonight's outcome between the Huskies and the Wildcats. The oddsmakers in Vegas will likely change the betting line several times before tonight's opening tip-off.
before tonight's opening game in
Kentucky is the third team to fight
its way to the National Championship
game as a No. 8 seed and Connecticut
has hit the record books as the first No.7 team to reach the finals.
Sports fans love to see some of the top teams square off and battle for all the marbles. But this year, college basketball's championship game will highlight two teams who were projected to exit the tournament early by many. The ambity of the out.
come for this game is what makes it exciting and unique from other championship matches.
Fans who follow college basketball religiously will overanalyze and overthink this matchup.
Don't worry about your brackets. They're probably already busted. Don't get caught up in the betting lines over which team is getting the most love from national experts.
Instead, fans should enjoy this rare occasion of a No.7 seed and No.8 seed fighting for a championship when everyone least expected it. Upsets are common, but not to the degree of this year's set of upsets. This type of matchup in a championship may not happen again for a very long time.
Wherever you will be or whomever you watch it with, enjoy tonight's unpredictable championship.
This week in athletics
Edited by Amber Kasselman
Monday No Events
Tuesday
Softball
UMKC
5 p.m.
Kansas City, Mo.
Baseball
lowa
6 p.m.
lowa City, Iowa
Wednesday
Baseball
lowa
3 p.m.
lowa City, Iowa
Thursday
No Events
Friday
Track Sun Angel Classic All day Tempe, Ariz.
Women's tennis
Texas Tech
5 p.m.
Lubbock, Texas
Baseball
TCU
6 p.m.
Lawrence
Saturday
Men's golf
Great River Entertainment
All day
Iowa City, Iowa
Women's rowing Lake Natoma Invite Day one Sacramento, Calif.
Track
Sun Angel Classic
All day
Tempe, Ariz.
Football
Spring Game
1 p.m.
Lawrence
Sunday
Men's golf
Great River Entertainment
All day
Iowa City, Iowa
Women's tennis
TCU
10 a.m.
Fort Worth, Texas
Women's rowing
Lake Natoma Invite
Final results
Sacramento, Calif.
MLB
Nationals avoid sweep with 2-1 win over Braves
WASHINGTON — Ian Desmond led off the seventh inning with a home run — the only run of the game scored on a hit — and the Washington Nationals and their makeshift lineup avoided a sweep Sunday with a 2-1 win over the Atlanta Braves.
Baseball
TCU
1 p.m.
Lawrence
Desmond ripped a fastball from
for his first save.
Alex Wood (1-1) well into the left field bleachers, the Nationals' first hit since the first inning. But it was enough to win on a day when four Washington pitchers combined to allow eight hits.
Taylor Jordan allowed one run over 6 2-3 innings, working out of several jams along the way, and Jerry Blevins (1-0) retired two batters in the seventh to get the win. Rafael Soriano pitched the ninth
Wood gave up two runs and four hits over seven innings for the Braves.
The Nationals finished with four hits — three from their first three batters of the game and Desmond's homer.
The Nationals fielded a lineup one could have hardly expected for the first week of the season. Without Ryan Zimmerman (shoulder trouble), Bryce Harper (batting slump). Scott Hairston (placed on the disabled list) and Denard Span (day off vs. a lefty), rookie manager Matt Williams had Kevin Frandsen playing outfield in a regular season game for the first time since 2010.
The Nationals manufactured their first-inning run after Rendon led off with a bunt single and Frandsen followed with a single to left. When Jayson Werth hit a grounder
up the middle, second baseman Dan Uggla bounced the throw to first — it wouldn't have been in time, anyway — but it rolled far enough from first baseman Freeman for Rendon to score.
The Nationals might have had a bigger inning, but Desmond didn't quite beat out a slow roller to third — a ruling upheld by instant replay.
Jordan pitched out of a bas
es-loaded, one-out jam in the fourth, but the Braves tied it in the sixth when Uggia's flyout to deep left-center scored Freeman.
Jordan was gone after allowing a leadoff single and a sacrifice bunt to start the seventh. Blevins came on and struck out Jason Heyward in a lefty-left matchup and got B.J. Upton to line out to shortstop.
Soriano struck out Heyward with two on in the ninth to finish it
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