INDIANAPOLIS – There are certain games each March that instantly earn a spot in a time capsule. They levitate there via searing momentum swings, shots that elicit visceral reactions and no-no-no-yes shot making.
The overtime thriller on Sunday night between No. 2 Alabama and No. 11 UCLA should be shipped to that place immediately, stored for future generations to appreciate sport as dramatic art. It captured all the quintessential March essences with eight lead changes, 11 ties and a game-tying buzzer beater at the end of regulation that will be in heavy rotation on CBS for much of the next decade.