The 2013 NCAA Basketball Final Four schools ranked as follows: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (59), Wichita State University (139), Syracuse University (141), and University of Louisville (289).
Anthony's strong April display shouldn't have been a surprise, as he's consistently played his best basketball in the final month of the regular season.
Daily showings (from Final Four basketball to movies to the latest Mad Men episode) are offered to guests.
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It also came at an especially embarrassing time for the NCAA, with the country focused on the Final Four basketball tournament this weekend.
This isn't great filmmaking, but, under Rick Famuyiwa's direction, it's more than good enough. (The executive producer is Earvin "Magic" Johnson, who ensured that a basketball subplot made the final cut.) Ms. Lathan's work is impeccable, and always appealing.
Brandt said he would run a hospitality suite at the Final Four where basketball coaches could swing by and tell him which players would make good tackles or safeties.
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The Big East, in its final year before the basketball-only schools break away to form their own league, led the way with eight teams in the NCAA field.
For Louisville, which will play Wichita State Saturday in the NCAA tournament's Final Four, winning basketball games and earning the tournament's No. 1 overall seed has come a lot easier than meeting another challenge: sticking to a balanced diet.
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There was also Pitino across the court from Krzyzewski, and all that happened the last time Pitino and Krzyzewski met in the NCAA tournament in 1992 was the greatest college-basketball game ever, a regional final between Duke and Kentucky that Duke won when Christian Laettner swished a shot now known as The Shot.
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Gottlieb was in elementary school the last time a West Coast women's basketball program not named Stanford reached the Final Four.
The All-Star center, who grew up and played high school basketball here, missed 12 of the final 15 games of the regular season.
Two wins later, the Wolverines are in the Final Four, and their basketball smarts will be tested again Saturday by Syracuse's zone defense.
Seven seasons after underdog George Mason crashed the Final Four and underlined college basketball's growing parity, the Shockers are the latest smallish school to get on a big roll in the tournament.
Just as the final Monday night of the NCAA basketball tournament is anti-climactic, so too is the World Series.
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You will watch Monday's final even though some of that basketball in Saturday night's semifinal was pretty tough to watch.
The No. 1 spot, for now, belongs to Michigan, helped by national championships in men's swimming and men's gymnastics, plus an NCAA tournament final appearance in men's basketball.
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While the easiest calculable money that Wichita State will bring in as a result of its Final Four berth is that from the NCAA basketball fund, Wichita State stands to earn significantly more from other resources.
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"To finally make the next step and go to the Elite 8 and now to be going into another game to try to compete to go to the Final Four is definitely back to where Georgia basketball needs to be, trying to compete for a national championship, " James said.
It will be the fourth straight season the conference that changed the landscape of college basketball over the last three-plus decades will have a Final Four team.
The American women's basketball team has already made it through to the gold-medal final, which they'll play against France on Saturday.
College basketball is a messy, often unscrupulous business, but in these final weeks it also becomes very meaningful for the players who participate.
In 2009, one year after Sampson's departure, there came a final insult: Poor academic performance cost the Hoosiers two basketball scholarships for a season.
The tussle for the men's college basketball championship will move on to Atlanta with one of the strongest Final Four fields in recent memory.
But the women's basketball side went down 63-24 to Germany in their quarter-final.
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The Huskies and Irish have developed the best rivalry in women's basketball over the past few seasons, and this game might have been the final chapter between the two with Notre Dame headed to the Atlantic Coast Conference next season.
Ware, a sophomore from the Bronx who averages 4.6 points per game as a reserve for the top-seeded Cardinals, played high-school basketball 30 minutes from the Georgia Dome, the site of next weekend's Final Four.
He played high-school basketball about 30 minutes from the Georgia Dome, the site of next weekend's Final Four, where Louisville travels this week for the NCAA tournament's national semifinals.
He determined a No. 6 seed or higher to be the applicable Cinderella benchmark due to the fact that since 2000 (the year that Lackritz calls the start of the modern era of college basketball), only 5 teams higher than the No. 5 seed have made the Final Four.
My own favorite upset occurred in college basketball in 1991 when Duke defeated the heavily-favored and previously-undefeated UNLV in the Final Four.
They won the first one 33 years ago in Providence, beating Syracuse in the final, of course, and wanted to put a bow on this era of Big East basketball by ending it with one more.
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