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One more win: Louisville, Michigan know an NCAA championship would leave a lifelong connection
• ATLANTA (AP) -- Rick Pitino knows how lasting one more win would be.
• It would give everyone a reason to stay connected. It would create a lifetime bond.
• To drive that point home, the Louisville coach showed his team the documentary on North Carolina State's improbable title in 1983, the one that left coach Jim Valvano running around the court looking desperately for someone to hug, the one that his players still get together to reminisce about -- on and off camera.
• "We weren't Cinderellas like N.C. State," Pitino said. "But I wanted them to understand that because (the Wolfpack) won a championship, for the rest of their lives they will sit around that table. Every year, they will get together -- for the rest of their lives."
• Michigan coach John Beilein is surely trying to instill a similar urgency in his young team, which faces the No. 1 seeded Cardinals in the national championship game Monday night.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Monday, April 8, the 98th day of 2013. There are 267 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlights in History:
• On April 8, 1913, the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for popular election of United States senators (as opposed to appointment by state legislatures), was ratified. President Woodrow Wilson became the first chief executive since John Adams to address Congress in person as he asked lawmakers to enact tariff reform.
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• On this date:
• In 1820, the Venus de Milo statue was discovered by a farmer on the Greek island of Milos.
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