The NCAA denied Papa John's appeal earlier this week, forcing the pizza magnate's beloved Cardinals to vacate the 2013 men's basketball championship (but none of the earnings).
To some delusional Michigan fans (repetitive, I know), this means the championship switched to Michigan. Head coach John Beilein feels differently.
From freep.com:
"We didn't win it all. We lost to a great team. If someone else wants to come and say 'hey, you won it all, you're the champion.' We'll take it," Beilein said Tuesday. "But I'm not going to declare that. I'm declaring that we played our tail off that entire year and got every bit out of what was, remember, a really young team. Freshmen and sophomores all over the place.
"That was a great basketball team."
Hail to the Victors, indeed.
