Live updates: Michigan fans gather to celebrate men's basketball championship
The Michigan men's basketball team is celebrating its NCAA championship with a Saturday morning parade and an afternoon event at the Crisler Center.
Ann Arbor ― University of Michigan fans are preparing to celebrate the men's basketball team's second NCAA championship in 37 years on Saturday with a parade and a ticketed event at the Crisler Center. The celebration follows No. 1 seed Michigan's 69-63 victory Monday night over No.
2 seed UConn at Lucas Oil Stadium. The victory snapped a string of four consecutive losses in the title game since Michigan won it all in 1989 over Seton Hall. It also ended the Big Ten’s national title drought — one that dated to 2000, when Michigan State won it — and tied 2005 Illinois for the most victories by a Big Ten team in a season.
Elliott Cadeau, a sophomore guard who is planning to return for his junior season, led Michigan with 21 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists in the championship win and was named the NCAA Tournament's most valuable player. More: From start to finish, Michigan basketball knew it had a 'special group' A crowd of hundreds welcomed the team back to campus on Tuesday afternoon. More: How to watch the Michigan basketball championship celebration Crowd gathers in anticipation of parade Fans decked out in blue and maize began to fill the side of State Street near the president's house an hour before the start of the parade.
Most wore coats or hoodies because of the cold. Raelin Fontenot, 39, and her 4-year-old daughter Solana Richardson were two of the fans bundled up on the side of the street. Fontenot said she's been a Wolverines fan for less than a year because she recently moved to Ann Arbor with her fiance, who manages a restaurant downtown.