because of kevin ware but is there something else that really kind of shines the spotlight on college basketball and how these young men really are playing like pros? you know what it is? i think a couple things. if you ask the college basketball cognizante, they d say it was a bad years in terms of people can t make fouls and there were tons of fouls. last year kentucky was so dominant and so inevitable, nobody could slay goliath. here in the postseason you have this kevin ware injury. then have you his substitute tim henderson who made four three-pointers the entire year hit two key ones to really help propel them over wichita state. you add it all up. seems like no matter what happens with the regular season in college basketball, people get into their brackets, people get into the hoopla, the pageantry, then in the finals, if you look at the rarityings they re up. in the finals people come together to watch what should and great game.
saw the injury live obviously and now you see it bandaged up, it is amazing he is getting around good on the crutches as well. maybe if louisville will win he can go to the white house for real and that will make him very happy. do you think a little more clarity. do you think that his injury is going to affect louisville s negatively, positively, what do you think it will be like to have him on the bench. one of two things will happen. win one for the giper, rally around the injury, do this for kevin ware or playing against the shockers, it could affect them they don t have the play of ware out there and could be upset. win-win for the giper, of course, would require kevin ware to know who the giper is. earlier this week someone had to explain it to him. he is young. children out there. we ll be watching to see how louisville reacts and we re watching a lot more than the games. the final four turned into something so much bigger than just the culmination of a basketball to
now that they have something to play for in the kevin ware injury, i think this is a chance for rick martino to get a second national championship. we are going with the cardinals. i will jump on board with your prediction and go with whatever you say. i have to correct you, it is not louisville. louisville. l cardinals, what are we going with? my mother-in-law is from louisville and will be upset if she heard you say louie-ville. i am betting nischelle knows how to pronounce it. we ll hear other predictions. everybody has a school they root for, at least a bracket they re rooting for something, and, nischelle still at centennial park. who did you find out there with their predictions? you know, we have found a lot of people out here. luda is on stage and he has the crowd rocking. there are so many people out here for the concert series and you asked who i ran into and one of the people i ran into was the
going into the final four what effect has kevin s injury had on your whole team? the negative effect is we have no back court substitutes. that s the negative thing. the positive thing to our guys is they saw how much they love each other and that s great. they sort of knew it and now they felt that emotion and have it for each other. rachel, the twitter verse went crazy after this injury and this play. here is king james, my prayers go out to kevin ware and his family. may you have a speedy recovery, kid, and come back even stronger. isn t just king james. kobe bryant called him. michelle obama called him, and i want you to look at this photo of him. this is just sort of after he had had his surgery and trying to get up and walk around and he is so drugged up at this point and he told me he did not even remember the first lady calling him. he was so cute about it. he was like call me back, first lady, please call me back. it is amazing. even on the crutches, when you
they said good night, christian, that s it. now you feel as you lay dying you will not see that shot flash before your eyes? i can die in peace. i am finally glad coach got a chance to exercise those demons and, coach, word is out he possibly made the hall of fame. probably possibly, like the worst kept secret ever. i know, right. tweet from dickey. he is in on the secret. i am so happy for jerry and guy lewis and rick patino. they re now hall of famers. it is such a thrill to get that call and that will be officially announced tomorrow. a little early word for you, part of the all access at the final four and we have a little more luda coming up. i think he is wearing a kevin ware jersey. that s love right there. that is love. that injury turned a number one overall seed into everyone s sentimental favorite and unbelievable. we will have more to come here