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Enjoy from my personal collection of NCAA Tournament games. I remember watching this game kind of hoping for a Florida upset but expecting Michigan State to win, which proved to be true. All season long Michigan State seemed the best team in college basketball to me. It was rewarding to see the Flintstones go out with a national championship, Michigan State's first since the 1978-79 season. I'll never forget the middle of the second half when Mateen Cleaves got his ankle caught and badly twisted with Florida guard Teddy Dupay, who made a dirty play trying to track the Spartans' point guard down. Cleaves got up and mouthed to the bench, "It's broken." Michigan State would rally from this injury, with Cleaves gutting it out, and put the game away, giving Tom Izzo his first and only national title to this day.
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