our carlos diaz, the intrepid carlos diaz is at the georgia dome for the final four games played out. they were great games, but how did louisville and michigan pull it off? >> well, i'll tell you what, michigan taking on syracuse. this shows you how much we know. all week long talk about the national player of the year. trey burke for michigan. he is going to have a great game. michigan is the youngest team. they'll need leadership and he goes one for eight a, yet, michigan still wins the game. how they did it? they did it with their young people. mitch mcgeri, the guy wasn't starting during the season. he comes in and he's starting now. a freshman. has a great game. tim hardaway jr. led all scorers and they attack that two-three zone defense with syracuse with crisp passes and now in the finals for the first time since 1989. louisville taking on wichita state. they're on fire. up 8-0 early on louisville. things look bad and builds a 12-point lead in the second half and back comes louisville and, in fact, the funny thing is they have kevin ware on the sideline and he proves to be an

carl carlos diaz joins us now. carlos? >> reporter: hold on. i can smell it.basketball. it's here. finally the final four. today is the day! it's a great day pf ware's face will be everywhere tonight. he will be on the bench. his face will be everywhere because stoudemire from the new york knicks donated heads fans will be wearing around the court all night long. if you missed anything with kevin ware, we have your kevin ware match-up. >> my first instinct is i can't start leg. isneaker on, but my leg is like this. >> he kept chanting, just win the game. just win the game. we did it for him. >> i have pictures of them putting the trophy by my side and me sleeping with it. >> thank you for all the support. thank you so much. >> my injury or not, i still want to win a national championship. the president picked us to lose, but when i speak to him in the white house, i will for give him. >> and the number one thought going through kevin ware's head at the time of the break -- >> louisville, >> reporter: lieu izville the sentimental favorite and at night michigan

with a place in the ncaa championship game, our intrepid carlos diaz was there. carlos, how'd they do it? >> reporter: well, i tell you what, it was an amazing night last night here at the georgia dome. and it was rocking early on. start with wichita state against louisville. a game that a lot of people had previewed as the undercard. this was a tight game throughout. wichita state starts on an 8-0 run. looked like louisville was kind of exhausted early on. maybe the emotions of the week with kevin ware had been getting to them, but in the end it was louisville coming out on top. they were down by 12 points at some point. at one point in the second half. but then they finally began hitting free-throws. their pressure-trapped defense finally began paying off, rattled wichita state and louisville came out on top. it wasn't until the final seconds where the louisville fans were able to breathe a sghg of relief. rick trying to become the first coach ever to win championship with two different teams. of course he won with kentucky as well. then in the night cap syracus

>> i need some of that carlos diaz air, my friend. thank you very much.inal four schools are celebrating their athletics, serious scandal is developing at rutgers university. athletic director tim pernetti has resigned, following the firing of head coach mike rice. players being physically and verbally abused. joining me now with more -- what's the latest and could we see more resignations? >> we could in the future. we're not hearing anything like that. another player they're throwing out, part of that decision-making process they're going through when they were discussing rice. they kicked around ten-game suspension, kicked around firing him and settled on that three-game suspension. i guess that's another reason why jim wolf, along with tim pernetti, resigned yesterday. >> are there conspiracy theories out of this video, hidden for fears of rutgers participating? what are you hearing? >> i'm not buying that. they announced they were going into the big 10, accepted january 20th. pernetti didn't start his investigation into rice until november 27th. and

please help me out, my friend. >> oh, always entertaining, carlos diaz. love the glasses.ive out in front of the georgia dome. the excitement outside building as well around the stadium. we're just a few hours away from tip time. it is game day, people, and obviously the activity online very exciting. it is powers in numbers if you look at that graphic there over 11 million comments about this tournament to date, the most popular hashtag, march madness. most discussed game, duke-louisville. got to be because of kevin ware. taking your tweets throughout the show. send them in. we'll show them. we'll talk about them. and if you want tweet reggie miller. he ain't gotting in nothing to do the next hour. i love the twitter pic you put up in february of chris weber celebrating his 40th birthday with the walker and the cake. awesome. made me feel old. it was an awesome picture. >> i appreciate it, joe. father time catches up to us all. break down the schedule for tonight. first up we have wichita state and the aforementioned louisville cardinals followed by the syracuse orange an

carlos diaz joins us now.of like this because it gave you an inside look at how athletes handle these injuries in real live. of course you'd vent. >> especially heavily medicated allegedly when they do that. he's in a lot of pain. your achilles is a very, very tough injury. you're talking about six, nine, 12 months come being back. that's the tough thing here. kobe has to look at not only the end of this season, but what if it takes nine months. that's into the beginning of the next season. what if it's 12 months. is next season gone? you're 35 years old. you've been playing half your life in the nba, but he later said, put in a post, now i'm supposed to come back from this and be the same player or better at 35? how in the world am i supposed to do that? i have no clue. but he later said, one day the beginning of a new career journey will commence. today is not that day. that post received more than 156,000 likes. so basically you have here a guy who is basically saying, i'm not done. but this is not an easy

carlos diaz, cover iing all the action for us, joins us live outside the georgia dome. who are you picking, my friend? you've had lots of time to think about it. >> reporter: who cares? i mean, i have to go with louisville, of course. louisville is the number one seed. april insanity, you should trademark that. i like that. basically, you can kind of -- the crowd moseying about now. wichita state taking on louisville. by the way, if you don't know what a shocker is, that's wichita state's nickname. shocking is what they do to wheat in kansas. the number one favorite, number one seed, louisville, also the favorite here in atlanta because of the fact of kevin ware and the horrific injury that occurred against duke sunday. that's the early game. night game, syracuse taking on michigan. jim beheim taking on syracuse. no coach here has won more game than jim boeheim. in fact, no coach in the history of ncaa has won more games than jim boeheim. great offense with michigan taking on a great two-three defense of syracuse. that's the close game. they're saying that is the main e

our carlos diaz is at the georgia dome where the final four games played out. all right, carlos, who's in and how did they get there? >> you are an amazing dancer. yes, we have louisville against michigan. the cardinals taking on the wolverines in the championship game tomorrow night. we're expecting two great games yesterday and we were not disappointed. starting with the night cap, michigan taking on syracuse last night. now, everyone was talking about the national player of the year for michigan coming in. but he had a rough night. only one of eight from the field. the rest of the michigan fresh five, as they're called, instead of the fab five, had to pick up the slack. it was basically a team effort. but michigan let syracuse back in by missing several free throws. in the end, michigan is the winner knocking off syracuse and jim boeheim is beaten by the person that he mentored john beline. he was 0 for 9. his first win last night on his first trip to the final four. so, michigan gets back to the final game for the first time in 20 years. the first time since

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so carlos diaz joins us, do you think he can?think six months is ambitious. >> it's ambitious? >> there are this louisville football player michael busch suffered the same kind of injury during his last few years at louisville. he sat out his senior year, sat out his next year at oakland and had a productive nfl career. so michael has proved that it can happen. six months i think is ambitious, they do want to get him back on the bench for this weekend's game here in atlanta against wichita state, they're going to be using him basically as an inspirational tool because the game was tied against duke and he goes down with that injury and they came out on fire in the second half. and they actually blew out the blue devils. and kevin is from here, he's from atlanta, so it's one of these things that it's a great story for a great team by the way, he's the number one seed and they're expected to win it all come this weekend. >> tell us about his team, the reaction from his team. because it was pretty extraordinary. >> you couldn't have

bring our carlos diaz.e's headed to atlanta now, his hometown. >> correct. >> and a lot of people very excited following his every move. and also what is he going to say now? he's an inspiration. >> right. that's the thing. he's talking about how so many people have come to him and now he wants to be an inspiration as well because so many people have come to him. this is just three days ago seemed like a long time ago. >> it does. >> but on sunday he broke his leg and now you can see he's on crutches and back with his louisville teammates. it's about a 90-minute drive from indianapolis to louisville on i-65. and he went down yesterday and was cleared today. he had to kind of jump one more hurdle. the doctors needed to make sure he did not have any kind of infection in the compound fracture. he cleared that hurdle. he is now heading down to atlanta with his team. and he's going to be on the bench when they take on wichita state on saturday afternoon here in atlanta for the final four. and basically, you know

carlos diaz jones joins me now. >> when you have guyed like jim nance and the announcers who are seasonedfor words you know it is horrific. it is a freak accident. he comes down after trying to block a shot. both major bones in the leg broken. as you said, as you pointed out, one of the bones coming through the skin. there are reports that several louisville players bombed it right there when they saw it happened. you can see he is wiping away tears right there and this guy has seen it all. he went over to help him up and then he saw that basically his leg was just kind of broken in half. he went to methodist hospital in indianapolis during the game. he had the surgery last night. rick petino stayed behind. kevin ware is from atlanta. the team wants to get him to atlanta for the final four. this harkins back to joe when he went out after lawrence taylor knocked him out during a "monday night football" game. and then after the game rick petineo mentioned michael bush. he had to sit out his senior year. there still might be hope for kevin ware. a horrific injury. when you put it up against