KANSAS WINS...OR IS IT MEMPHIS CHOKED?

"Any commentator talking about our free throw shooting doesn't know anything about basketball"

Memphis Coach John Calipari.

One thing about making defiant quotes is you better be 100% sure you know what you are talking about because, if you are proven wrong, people will be reminding you for the rest of your life. John Calipari would tell anyone who would listen the entire year that people didn't know what they were talking about when they said that Memphis free- throw shooting would at some point bite them in the ass. To be honest he looked prophetic during the tournament when his team was sinking free throws like they were possessed by Steve Kerr. He smirked and chastised any and everyone who commented that it is easy to make free throws when you are up by 20 but asked what would happened in a close game?

Then it happened and it happened in the most important game of the year with everything on the line (no pun intended). Memphis on the verge of winning the National Championship with their best two players shooting a total of five free throws. If they make two out of five they are champions.

Funny thing though, they only hit one. One out of five. Chris Douglas Roberts and Derrick Rose, hopefully, will be great pros, but similar to Chris Webber, there will always be that chapter when speaking on their careers. They will be remembered as the guys who choked away the Championship from the free throw line.

Mario Chalmers=Serial Killer nothing else to say about that.

Kansas played beautifully. They pounded it inside all night and simply killed Memphis. Brandon Rush did disappear offensively for stretches, but defensively he played his heart out against both Rose and Roberts. Being down 9 points with 2 minutes to go, they could have given up. But they kept fighting, kept clawing, kept coming and, to be honest, of the full 45 minutes of this game, they were the best team.

Definitely a game that will be remembered for a very long time! One that I will remember more for Memphis blowing the game than Kansas winning the game. But this should be a lesson for all those kids out there just practicing 3-pointers and dunks. Take a little more time at the foul line because you never know when it will be you on that line with a chance to win the game for your team. You don't have to be a basketball expert to know that.