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It's Kentucky and Louisville in Sweet 16, Kentucky beats Wichita by 2 points to advance to Sweet 16, Defending NCAA Champion Louisville beats Saint Louis, the 2 teams will square off at 9:45 pm on Friday in Indianapolis, Dayton defeats Ohio State to face Stanford in Sweet 16, read the 2014 list of Sweet 16 teams here at Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative, political and legal journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.   A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Coleman graduated from  Kentucky State  University  relative to her  undergraduate  degree in biological science and also  attended  the University of Louisville. She earned graduate  degrees  at Spalding University in Louisville , Kentucky and the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. She is ABD (all but dissertation) relative to her straight A pursuit in the doctoral program at the University of Akron. An advocate of higher education, Coleman  also   earned   straight  A's in the graduate programs at Spalding a...

Louisville Cardinals defeat the Michigan Wolverines 82-76 to win NCAA Championship at the Georgia Dome Monday night for its third all time championship

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Atlanta GA-Under the leadership of Head Coach Rick Pitino (pictured) the Louisville Cardinal's won the NCAA Championship Monday night, defeating the Michigan Wolverines 82 to 76 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta GA. It was the third all-time championship win in the school's history and former University of Louisville coach Denny Crum, who took his teams to victory in 1980 and 1986, was there for support. Pitino told reporters after the game that his players were the reason for the victory. "Players put coaches in the  hall of fame," said Pitino, who is among seven inductees to be inducted this year to the Basketball Hall of Fame, its officials announced hours before the game. Spike Albrecht went four-for-four and scored 17 points in assisting in giving the Wolverines a comfortable head start, but at half time...