Michigan students cram in homework before big game in Indianapolis
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. " More: National title 'would mean everything' to snap Michigan's painful history More: What TV channel is Michigan vs.
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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?