(With acknowledgement and apologies to Ernest Thayer, author "Casey at the Bat.")
The outlook was brilliant for the Tiger Eleven that day,
The score was nothing to nothing and there were four quarters of football to play,
When Alabama scored a field goal first, and LSU failed to answer,
A sense of Déjà vu rose on those faithful to the Tigers...
The NCAA title game can be summed up with one word: Ugly.
How ugly? The combined 95 points between UConn and Butler shattered the previous combined low in a shot-clock-era title game by a whooping 26 points… How ugly? Butler didn’t hit their second two point shot until 12:32 mark in the second half, and ended the game shooting an inconceivably bad 12 for 64. How ugly? UConn shot 34 percent f