The Championship, the Uniform, and the Code

We usually point out that “teams win team sports,” and this would have been true no matter which team won last night’s game.  But, it was Villanova who seemed throughout the tournament to have found a rhythm as a team that made their tournament run special.  Indeed, it is the teams who suddenly jell that create the unexpected “madness” of the tournament.  But, beneath all of the external teamwork it is the spiritual teamwork that is the foundation of all teamwork.  Marcus Paige put it best when he said after the game that the saddest moment for him was not going to be the loss, but the moment he took off his uniform, because that would be the last time he took off his UNC jersey.  It was because of what “team” meant to him that this moment would be the hardest.  What is the team that has meant the most to you?  Why?

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