The Cardinals play No. 2 seed Duke on Sunday in the Midwest Regional final.
Not after the way they held off mighty Ohio State in the West Regional final.
Jeff Walz's team then beat Tennessee in the regional final before topping Cal in the Final Four.
This was the 19th time in the past 23 seasons that UConn had reached the regional final.
The No. 4-seeded Orange won't have that element in their favor in the NCAA tournament's East Regional final.
The Gators will play Michigan in the South Regional final on that raised court at Cowboys Stadium on Sunday.
Reid and the Cardinals will play Tennessee in the regional final on Tuesday for a berth in the Final Four.
Yale (19-12-3) will play North Dakota in the regional final Saturday for a spot in the Frozen Four in Pittsburgh.
Beilein had been to a regional final with West Virginia, but he didn't exactly fit the stereotype of a young up-and-comer.
None of the regional final games during this current run have been close with only Rutgers coming within 10 in 2008.
Last weekend, after stunning Kansas, they romped past one of the nation's best defensive teams, beating Florida 79-59 in the regional final.
Watching Georgetown and Villanova clash in the South regional final for a spot in the Final Four would be a tremendous start.
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Another giant awaits the Shockers in Atlanta next weekend: They'll face the winner of Sunday's Midwest Regional final between Duke and Louisville.
The next team to try to solve that defense will be the winner of Sunday's South Regional final between Florida and Michigan.
Second-seeded North Dakota (22-12-7) will play Yale on Saturday in the regional final for a spot in the Frozen Four in Pittsburgh.
Yale (19-12-3) will play North Dakota or Niagara in the regional final Saturday for a spot in the Frozen Four in Pittsburgh.
The lone blemish came against Duke in 2006 in the regional final.
They have been to the NCAA tournament each of their four seasons, but the last two ended with losses an NCAA regional final.
Louisville also played without Kevin Ware, a reserve guard who broke his right leg while defending a shot in the regional final last week.
Sophomore guard Kevin Ware, who played his high school ball in the Atlanta suburbs, sustained a gruesome injury in Sunday's regional final against Duke.
"I'm not a big proponent of scouting, film work, " the Syracuse coach said before facing fellow Big East member Marquette in a regional final.
In the first half of Louisville's NCAA tournament regional final win against Duke, Ware jumped and his right leg appeared to snap as he landed.
The other difference was that, unlike its Big East tournament final against Syracuse and Midwest regional final against Duke, Louisville's comeback didn't put the game away.
The Golden Eagles' 39 points were a record low for a team in an NCAA tournament regional final since the shot clock was introduced in 1986.
Saturday's Marquette-Syracuse game will be the ninth time since the field expanded to 64 teams that two schools from the same conference played in the regional final.
The Blue Devils topped Kentucky in the 1992 East Regional final on Christian Laettner's buzzer-beater in perhaps the greatest game and shot in the tournament's 75-year history.
Less than 5, 000 fans turned out to watch the regional final which has suffered from poor attendance since the exit of Kenya's Harambee Stars in the quarter-finals.
Georgetown, a No. 1 seed just four years from winning a national championship, met Providence, an up-and-coming program under up-and-coming coach Rick Pitino, in the South Regional final.
Earlier Wednesday, Ware recounted his shock over the severely broken leg, which occurred Sunday in Indianapolis during the Midwest regional final of the NCAA men's tournament, against Duke.
It's the first time that the overwhelming favorite to win the national championship didn't reach the Final Four since Tennessee lost to Duke in the 1999 regional final.
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