Yaxel Lendeborg
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Michigan's Yaxel Lendeborg battled through a severe injury to play 36 minutes in the Wolverines' 69-63 NCAA men's basketball national championship victory over UConn on Monday night in Indianapolis. Despite feeling 'awful' and 'super weak' at halftime, he delivered a brutally honest interview that went viral and helped lead his team to its second title. The Dominican-born star from Arizona Western College credits his mother for turning his life around.
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