ESPN has a bit up on the Fab Five Michigan team and its failure to win the 1993 national title. The piece originally ran in 2017 and is reposted for the Final Four.
The spin here is, more or less, that they had it and let it go.
The truth is that anyone with half a brain could see that despite the talent, this was never a championship team.
Never.
It lacked courage and it lacked maturity. It was long on flash and short on substance.
In 1993, the first stirrings of a partnership between Boswell and Julio that ultimately led to DBR started on Prodigy and it was there that we made this prediction about the 1993 title game: it would be close, but in the closing minutes, Michigan would make a crucial mistake and UNC would take advantage and win.