New York - "Defense, " goes UCLA's hew and cry at the NCAA Final Four tournament.
For instance, in 2009, North Carolina, Michigan State, Connecticut and Villanova participated in the NCAA Final Four.
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Oh and by the way, I still wear my NCAA Final Four watch each year during MARCH MADNESS!!!
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They are trying to get to their first NCAA Final Four since consecutive national championships in 2006 and 2007.
And she took me to my first play, and she stayed up with me and watched the NCAA final four.
"I tried the Masters weekend, the NCAA Final Four and the Super Bowl, but they were all booked, " he says.
"Ware will remain in Indianapolis until at least Tuesday, when he is hopeful to return to Louisville and then join the Cardinals as they advance to the NCAA Final Four in Atlanta, " Klein said.
The estimate, however, only adds to the roster of major sporting events that New Orleans has recently hosted, including the annual All-State Sugar Bowl, the BCS National Championship, and the NCAA Final Four this year alone.
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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).
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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Well, we won't know who the NCAA champion is until the Final Four is over on April 8.
Only seven teams outside of the top four seeds have ever made it to the Final Four since the NCAA tournament started in 1982.
In large part because of that singular focus, the Orange, seeded fourth in the East Regional of the NCAA tournament, are headed to the Final Four for the fourth time since Boeheim became head coach in 1976.
Wichita State has gone from a ninth-seeded mid-major aiming to win an NCAA game to an unexpected arrival in the Final Four.
It also came at an especially embarrassing time for the NCAA, with the country focused on the Final Four basketball tournament this weekend.
They have been to the NCAA tournament each of their four seasons, but the last two ended with losses an NCAA regional final.
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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The sense was that since Indianapolis is home to the NCAA headquarters, that it would be granted the 2013 Final Four.
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The games are being played as part of Final Four weekend for the first time as the NCAA celebrates its 75th anniversary.
Michigan's most recent trip to the Final Four, in 1993, was vacated because of NCAA violations.
While Tennessee seeks its 19th Final Four appearance, Syracuse is searching for its first NCAA tournament victory.
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.
Carter-Williams did a terrific job of dealing with one thing at a time, so much so that he was chosen as the top player in the East Regional for helping No. 4 seed Syracuse beat No. 1 seed Indiana, then No. 3 seed Marquette, to make it to the Final Four for the first time since winning the 2003 NCAA championship.
Then, with a berth in the Final Four at stake against Marquette, which eliminated Syracuse in the NCAA tournament two years ago and beat the Orange 74-71 during the season, Syracuse won 55-39.
They are joined by an additional ten teams that have received NCAA Tournament bids and hope to upset higher ranked teams on the road to the Final Four.
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For the Final Four, the former NBA player is joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as celebrity hosts for the NCAA official VIP pregame hospitality event hosted by PrimeSport.
The semi-final round will feature four head coaches who are vying for the chance to not only add an NCAA title to the resume, but to take home an even bigger bonus check.
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