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Indianapolis — Hours before Monday night's NCAA men's basketball championship game and about 270 miles away from campus, University of Michigan students were cramming to finish assignments in the lobby of the team's hotel.
Connor Couch, a junior in the university's Ross School of Business, took up a table in the lobby with a posterboard and markers. Although he had several assignments, including the posterboard due the next day, he said there was no way he couldn't be in Indianapolis to watch the basketball team attempt to win their first championship in decades.
"My best friend got free tickets to the game, that's something you can't pass up," he said. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime game."
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The Michigan Wolverines and UConn Huskies are set to battle for the NCAA men's basketball national championship at 8:50 p.m. ET in Indianapolis.
Couch said he brought the poster board with him from Ann Arbor. He and his friend drove down on Monday for the game and planned to drive back on Tuesday.
"I have a paper due too," he said. "I'll probably just do it in the car on the way."
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A few feet away from Couch in the Marriott hotel lobby, Natalie Mark, a neuroscience and environmental science double major, worked on her economics homework.
She drove in from Chicago, where her sister lives, because it was a shorter trip and would make her way back to Ann Arbor in the next couple of days.
Mark, a former basketball player herself, said she thought the team had what it would take to defeat UConn and capture UM's first tournament championship since 1989.
"The team is really good," she said. "They move really well together; you can tell they're working as a team. No one is more of a 'star' than anyone else."
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Connor Couch, a junior in the university's Ross School of Business, took up a table in the lobby with a posterboard and markers. Although he had several assignments, including the posterboard due the next day, he said there was no way he couldn't be in Indianapolis to watch the basketball team attempt to win their first championship in decades.
"My best friend got free tickets to the game, that's something you can't pass up," he said. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime game."
More: National title 'would mean everything' to snap Michigan's painful history
More: What TV channel is Michigan vs. UConn on today? Time for national championship game
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The Michigan Wolverines and UConn Huskies are set to battle for the NCAA men's basketball national championship at 8:50 p.m. ET in Indianapolis.
Couch said he brought the poster board with him from Ann Arbor. He and his friend drove down on Monday for the game and planned to drive back on Tuesday.
"I have a paper due too," he said. "I'll probably just do it in the car on the way."
More: Wojo: Is Michigan prepared for the special challenge UConn presents?
A few feet away from Couch in the Marriott hotel lobby, Natalie Mark, a neuroscience and environmental science double major, worked on her economics homework.
She drove in from Chicago, where her sister lives, because it was a shorter trip and would make her way back to Ann Arbor in the next couple of days.
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Mark, a former basketball player herself, said she thought the team had what it would take to defeat UConn and capture UM's first tournament championship since 1989.
"The team is really good," she said. "They move really well together; you can tell they're working as a team. No one is more of a 'star' than anyone else."
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