INDIANAPOLIS — As the clock ticked toward 2 a.m. and Monday night of the men’s college basketball national championship game faded completely into the chilly morning hours of Tuesday morning, Lucas Oil Stadium remained alive and bustling.
The giant video board which flashed “National Champions” flanked by the Michigan logo in the aftermath of the Wolverines’ 69–63 win over UConn was turned off and packed up. The maize-and-blue confetti that still littered the elevated court at the heart of Final Four weekend was swept out of the way by those lowering the rims and unplugging equipment all around. Hundreds of other workers whisked away chairs or disassembled any of the untold number of temporary elements that turn a home for football into the largest basketball cathedral in a state full of them.
