Why do basketball teams cut down the nets to celebrate a title?

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On Monday night, one of these four teams will be celebrating a national title in Houston and doing what national champions have done for years: cutting down the nets. It’s a right reserved for the victors and The Chucker, 19nine’s resident historian, details the origins of this cherished college basketball tradition.

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