{"id":703209,"date":"2026-04-07T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703209\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:59:23","slug":"students-and-fans-celebrate-as-michigan-wins-ncaa-basketball-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703209\/","title":{"rendered":"Students and fans celebrate as Michigan wins NCAA Basketball Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Michigan students and fans were dancing in the streets of Ann Arbor Monday night after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/news\/basketball-men\/article\/2026-04-06\/michigan-beats-uconn-wins-2026-mens-basketball-national-championship\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Wolverines beat UConn 69-63<\/a> to win its second Men\u2019s Basketball NCAA Championship. <\/p>\n<p>They poured out of local bars to celebrate the program\u2019s first basketball title since 1989. Some people camped out all day to get prime seats. Others watched the large TV screens from the sidewalks outside.<\/p>\n<p>U-M junior Michael Chappel says given some of the problems the university has faced recently, it\u2019s great to have a reason to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>            \u201cI think the environment on campus this year has been kind of down a little bit, so I think this will be a great rejuvenating force for the campus, and it\u2019s off to a good year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police were out in force in case any problems occurred, but for the most part, the celebration on South University Avenue was controlled.<\/p>\n<p>VID_20260406_232043385.mp4<\/p>\n<p>Non-commercial, fact based reporting is made possible by your financial support.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/donate.nprstations.org\/wemu\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Make your donation to WEMU today\u00a0<\/a>to keep your community NPR station thriving.<\/p>\n<p>Like 89.1\u00a0WEMU\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wemufm\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wemu891\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">X (Twitter)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact WEMU News at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wemu.org\/post\/734.487.3363\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">734.487.3363<\/a>\u00a0or email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wemu.org\/sports\/2026-04-07\/mailto:studio@wemu.org\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">studio@wemu.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"University of Michigan students and fans were dancing in the streets of Ann Arbor Monday night after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-703209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116363313992479537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}