Pierce on the Badgers and the Dookies

You are in luck as Charles Pierce was present at the Duke - Wisconsin matchup. He opens with:

"At halftime of Monday night’s frantic NCAA men’s championship game, I happened into conversation with one of Mike Krzyzewski’s fellow Hall of Fame coaches, someone I’ve known for a while, and someone who knows not only where the bodies are buried, but also where they hid the shovels. The game was tied at 31-31. Duke’s gifted young center, Jahlil Okafor, had two fouls, which is exactly as many as Wisconsin had as a team. This was no surprise. All year, Wisconsin’s trademarks were that it did not turn the ball over and it did not foul. Everybody in the building knew that, including Krzyzewski, which is why he spent almost the entire half yapping at the officiating crew. If he’d gotten any closer to them, they’d all have been picking out china patterns..."