MINNEAPOLIS — Virginia, a nice tortoise of a program with a warmish 114-year history, a bent for deliberative basketball along with an unthinkable splat of 13 months ago, spent Monday night scaling the last jagged rungs into a pinnacle. When eventually it made the final, painful steps in overtime, attained the very top and looked around, it knew a feeling long associated only with other people like Duke or North Carolina, the neighboring hares that constantly left it one of the overshadowed.
It had become the very first first-time men’s college basketball national winner in 13 decades, and may see back through the landscape of one hell of a story. It could see Texas Tech, the finalist Virginia outlasted by 85-77 in that overtime, a team so great it had hit on the NCAA tournament like some great wind coming from the large plains of Lubbock, felling Michigan State, Gonzaga, Michigan and Buffalo.
Gaze back from up high, and Virginia could observe the carnival of plays that helped it wriggle from doom in life-shortening matches against Purdue, Auburn and Texas Tech. Squint more difficult, and it might see back to March 2018, when Virginia became the first No. 1 seed in tournament history to lose to a No. 16 seed, a bewildering 74-54 thud against Maryland Baltimore County, the nadir of a five decades of tortured Marches. Yet right in front, it could see the droves in orange and blue in U.S. Bank Stadium, reveling as sound cascaded from lovers who seldom dared dream of such a thing.

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