Opinion: De'Andre Hunter out-plays Jarrett Culver in showdown of future NBA lottery picks usatoday.com

MINNEAPOLIS — There are 1,000 micromoments that decide games like these, and when everything seems so even, you can cherry-pick any of them to explain why Virginia celebrated its first national championship Monday night and Texas Tech coach Chris Beard wept at a news conference when he started to talk about how awful his players felt. But in a sense, the most refreshing part about Virginia’s 85-77 overtime victory was that it could be explained in the simplest way any basketball game could be explained: One team’s future NBA lottery pick out-played the other’s.