{"id":71033,"date":"2026-04-06T22:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/michigan-outlasts-uconn-to-win-first-ncaa-mens-basketball-title-since-1989\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:56:22","slug":"michigan-outlasts-uconn-to-win-first-ncaa-mens-basketball-title-since-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/michigan-outlasts-uconn-to-win-first-ncaa-mens-basketball-title-since-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan outlasts UConn to win first NCAA men\u2019s basketball title since 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Elliot Cadeau scored 19 points and won Final Four MOP<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Foul trouble haunts Huskies in low-scoring affair<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>As it happened: Read Beau Dure\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/apr\/06\/ncaa-mens-national-championship-uconn-michigan-live-score\">live play-by-play<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>High-scoring Michigan had to get down and dirty to dig out the national title Monday, making only two three-pointers all night but still muscling its way to a 69-63 victory over stingy, stubborn UConn.<\/p>\n<p>Elliot Cadeau led the Wolverines with 19 points, including the team\u2019s first basket from beyond the arc, which came 7:04 into the second half. He was later named Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/06\/michigan-uconn-ncaa-mens-basketball-championship\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elliot Cadeau scored 19 points and won Final Four MOP Foul trouble haunts Huskies in low-scoring affair As it happened: Read Beau Dure\u2019s live play-by-play High-scoring Michigan had to get down and dirty to dig out the national title Monday, making only two three-pointers all night but still muscling its way to a 69-63 victory &#8230; <a title=\"Michigan outlasts UConn to win first NCAA men\u2019s basketball title since 1989\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/michigan-outlasts-uconn-to-win-first-ncaa-mens-basketball-title-since-1989\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Michigan outlasts UConn to win first NCAA men\u2019s basketball title since 1989\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}