North Carolina State's top rebounder Mohamed Diarra (Garden City KS) and Alabama's third-leading rebounder Nick Pringle (Dodge City KS) are former junior college products along with backup Bama frontcourter Mohamed Wague (Harcum PA). While not an All-American, Diarra is in some select company. Former juco recruits who became NCAA DI A-As and led a Final Four participant in rebounding included St. John's Walter Berry (1985), Utah's Jerry Chambers (1966), UNLV Armon Gilliam (1987), Jacksonville's Artis Gilmore (1970), Oklahoma's Harvey Grant (1988), UNLV's Larry Johnson (1990 and 1991), Memphis State's Larry Kenon (1973), North Carolina's Bob McAdoo (1972) and Kansas State's Willie Murrell (1964).

Junior college products have made a significant difference for NCAA Tournament titlists. Keith Erickson (El Camino CA), Jack Hirsch (Los Angeles Valley CA), Larry Hollyfield (Compton CA), Terry Schofield (Santa Monica CA), John Vallely (Orange Coast CA) and Sidney Wicks (Santa Monica CA) were instrumental in helping UCLA win seven of its NCAA championships (1964-65-69-70-71-72-73) and mighty mite Bobby Joe Hill (Burlington IA) was the spark-plug for Texas Western when the Miners captured the 1966 title. Wicks is the only individual to become a member of three NCAA champions after playing in junior college.

As DI academic exemptions become pervasive, the impact of juco recruits has decreased. But following is an alphabetical list of key Final Four team regulars previously playing for a junior college:

"Stepping onto a brand new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation which is not nurturing." - Maya Angelou

Whether schools are simply filling out a roster with a backup or chasing a pot of gold at the end of a Larry Bird-created rainbow jumper, they seem to be looking around every corner and under every rock for a transfer. Bird left a potential powerhouse at Indiana but never played for the Hoosiers before becoming national player of the year with Indiana State. Bird became a three-time All-American in the late 1970s not long after a 12-season span from 1961-62 through 1972-73 when there was exactly zero A-As who previously played varsity basketball for another four-year university. These days, wining and dining transfers has become more critical than wooing prize high school prospects. Incredibly, the transfer portal led to 12 of the total of 18 All-Americans this season transferring from other schools - seven of them via mid-major schools comparable to Indiana State (East Carolina/George Mason/Illinois State/Morehead State/Northern Colorado/Ohio University/South Dakota State).

How many All-Americans over the years actually played varsity basketball for two different four-year schools? The average was about one every two years until the transfer portal yielded five such A-As each of the previous two campaigns prior to exploding in volume this campaign. Duke and Kansas, two of the five schools with the most All-Americans in history, had their first transfer in that category during the previous decade - Duke guard Seth Curry (Liberty) and KU center Jeff Withey (Arizona). Of course, the premier player in this category in 2021-22 was Kentucky center Oscar Tshiebwe, who transferred from West Virginia after averaging 10.6 ppg and 8.9 rpg for the Mountaineers in 2019-20 and first semester of 2020-21. Tshiebwe became the first transfer ever to become national player of the year after competing in games with another four-year school. He was the first player to average more than 15 rpg since Alcorn State's Larry Smith in 1979-80 (15.1). UK lost five players who became A-As elsewhere including one of five such transfers at Gonzaga.

Terrence Shannon Jr. (Illinois) and Kevin McCullar Jr. (Kansas) were teammates at Texas Tech from 2019-20 through 2021-22 before becoming All-Americans this season with Top 20 teams. Questions linger regarding any Illini coaching staff input and circumstances surrounding how Shannon was transported on road trip to non-conference football game in Lawrence, KS, last September prior to alleged sexual misconduct incident there at a bar with surveillance video (Jayhawk Cafe). McCullar and fellow KU transfer All-American Hunter Dickinson (from Michigan) are not implicated in the case but reportedly have been subpoenaed.

In less controversial off-the-court situation not requiring a restraining order, Mississippi State lost a transfer All-American when Ben Hansbrough departed for Notre Dame but the Bulldogs had their own player in this category earlier this century after Lawrence Roberts left Baylor. In an era when transfers have almost become an obsession for various reasons, there was a modest uptick in the ratio with seven All-Americans in this category in a six-year span from 2000 through 2005 before Louisville's Luke Hancock (George Mason) became Final Four Most Outstanding Player. The 12 transfer All-Americans this year joined the following alphabetical list of A-As who began their collegiate careers at another four-year school:

*Attended junior college between four-year school stints.
NOTES: Burgess was an Air Force veteran. . . . Kolek, Nowell and Pickett increased the total to 16 of All-Americans who began their careers attending a mid-major or non-Division I school.

Unless you're busy hoarding toilet paper for George Soros butt-boy attorneys in New York and elsewhere, seeking translator to interpret bumbling Plagiarist Biledumb or cowering in fetal position from climate change or Dr. Fraudci directive, it's your opportunity to take online tests for 23 quarantined days symbolic of normal time frame from Selection Sunday to Monday evening championship contest.

We need something to occupy our minds during quarantine from much of the invective-infected #MessMedia. Emphasizing a "one-and-only" theme for a "one-and-only" event, here is Day 17 of a treasure-trove of tantalizing NCAA Tournament trivia questions from CollegeHoopedia.com tracking the only coach, conference, player or school to be linked to a distinguished or dubious achievement (click here for answers or conduct research digesting historical morsels in CollegeHoopedia.com's year-by-year highlights):

1. Which school had the only trio to each score at least 20 points in two Final Four games? Hint: All three players finished their college careers with more than 2,000 points and were on roster the next year when school lost its playoff opener. The school is only national runner-up to score more than 85 points in an NCAA final.

2. Name the only school to have three players score more than 20 points in a Final Four game. Hint: The school lost championship game that year by more than 20 points although score was tied at halftime.

3. Who is the only player to score 40 or more points in a Final Four game and not eventually play in the NBA? Hint: He was held under 10 points in his other Final Four game that year.

4. Who is the only coach to go more than 40 years from his first to his last appearance in the playoffs? Hint: He and his son, who succeeded him, both compiled a losing tourney record.

5. Who is the only player to compile an NBA playoff scoring average more than 15 points per game higher than his NCAA Tournament average? Hint: He scored just six points in his NCAA playoff debut against a school participating in the tourney for just second time.

6. Who is the only player to lead an NCAA tournament in scoring with more than 120 points and not eventually play in the NBA? Hint: He averaged 32.3 points per game in his three-year college career.

7. Who is the only player from 1957 through 1996 to lead a tournament in rebounding and not eventually play in the NBA? Hint: His school was making just its second tourney appearance the year he led in rebounding.

8. Who is the only non-guard to be the undisputed leading scorer of an NCAA Tournament and not participate in the Final Four? Hint: He never played in the NBA.

9. Who is the first coach to make more than a dozen NCAA playoff appearances before reaching the Final Four? Hint: He was coach of the first team to win national championship in its first Final Four appearance since Texas Western in 1966.

10. Who is the only player to take more than 40 field-goal attempts in a playoff game his team lost? Hint: The guard was the nation's leading scorer with more than 36 points per game for only school to reach national semifinals of a small-college tournament one year and participate in NCAA Tournament the next season.

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After his retirement a couple of years ago, could another Special K (from Army to Duke) be in the mix as coaches were hired despite coming off a losing mark the previous season? How often are bench bosses hired coming off a losing campaign? A couple of recent coaching changes - Southern Methodist's Andy Enfield and Southern California's Eric Musselman - joined the following alphabetical list of active mentors hired by their current school despite coming off a season when posting a losing record:

Active DI Coach	Current School	Losing Season Record With Previous School
Rod Barnes	Cal State Bakersfield (since 2011-12)	11-18 with Georgia State in 2010-11
John Dunne	Marist (since 2018-19)	14-18 with Saint Peter's in 2017-18
Andy Enfield	Southern Methodist (since 2024-25)	15-18 with Southern California in 2023-24
John Gallagher	Manhattan (since 2023-24)	12-20 with Hartford in 2021-22 (stepped aside shortly before start of school's final NCAA Division I season in 2022-23)
Jim Les	UC Davis (since 2011-12)	12-20 with Bradley in 2010-11
Tony Madlock	Alabama State (since 2022-23)	15-16 with South Carolina State in 2021-22
Greg McDermott	Creighton (since 2010-11)	15-17 with Iowa State in 2009-10
Eric Musselman	Southern California (since 2024-25)	16-17 with Arkansas in 2023-24
T.J. Otzelberger	Iowa State (since 2021-22)	12-15 with UNLV in 2020-21
Richard Pitino	New Mexico (since 2021-22)	14-15 with Minnesota in 2020-21
Mark Prosser	Winthrop (since 2021-22)	11-16 with Western Carolina in 2020-21
Maurice "Mo" Williams	Jackson State (since 2022-23)	9-21 with Alabama State in 2021-22

Extra! Extra! This is no April Fool's prank. Insofar as a new MLB season is underway, you can enhance your knowledge by reading news all about memorable major league baseball achievements, moments and transactions involving former college basketball players! Numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games and dates in MLB history.

Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only four percent of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Former college hoopers Tom Dettore (Juniata PA) and Paul Popovich (West Virginia) were traded for each other at MLB level on this date. Ex-HBCU hoopers Larry Doby (Virginia Union) and Lou Johnson (Kentucky State) were also traded on this date. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is an April 1 calendar of trades focusing on several such versatile MLB athletes:

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• OF Larry Doby (reserve guard for Virginia Union's 1943 CIAA basketball titlist) traded by the Baltimore Orioles to the Cleveland Indians in 1958.

• LF "Sweet" Lou Johnson (Kentucky State teammate of legendary HBCU coach Davey Whitney averaged 5.7 ppg and 2 rpg in 1951-52) traded by the Chicago Cubs to the Los Angeles Angels in 1961.

• OF-1B Len Matuszek (starter for Toledo's 18-7 team in 1975-76) traded by the Philadelphia Phillies to the Toronto Blue Jays in 1985.

• OF Lou Piniella (averaged 2.5 ppg and 1.4 rpg for Tampa as freshman in 1961-62) traded by the Seattle Pilots to Kansas City Royals in 1969.

• OF-1B John Poff (member of Duke's freshman basketball squad in 1970-71) traded by the Milwaukee Brewers to the Chicago White Sox in 1981.

• INF Paul Popovich (averaged 3.3 ppg for West Virginia's 1960 NCAA playoff team) traded by the Chicago Cubs to the Pittsburgh Pirates for RHP Tom Dettore (averaged 14.1 ppg and 9 rpg for Juniata PA in 1965-66) and cash in 1974.

Purdue's Zach Edey (25 ppg) had an opportunity to become the first player in more than 70 years to pace the country in scoring for an NCAA champion but the Boilermakers bowed in the championship contest against Connecticut. Edey and Oklahoma's Buddy Hield (25.4 ppg in 2016) are the only players to average more than 25 ppg for a Final Four participant since Georgia Tech's Dennis Scott (27.7 in 1989-90).

Hield came close to duplicating one of the most overlooked achievements in NCAA Tournament history. In 1951-52, Clyde Lovellette of champion Kansas became the only player to lead the nation in scoring average (28.4 ppg) while competing for a squad reaching the NCAA tourney title game. Final Four luminaries averaging more than 30 ppg include Elvin Hayes (36.8/Houston '68), Oscar Robertson (33.7/Cincinnati '60 and 32.6/Cincinnati '59), Rick Mount (33.3/Purdue '69), Elgin Baylor (32.5/Seattle '58), Bill Bradley (30.5/Princeton '65) and Len Chappell (30.1/Wake Forest '62).

Lovellette, an 11-year NBA center who passed away four years ago, served as sheriff of Vigo County in his native Indiana (noted for raid on Terre Haute brothels). Edey aspired to "raid" the Final Four by joining Lovellette as the only other player cracking the 30-point plateau in the national semifinals and championship contest in the same season (33 against both Santa Clara and St. John's).

Only two other Final Four players notched higher scoring averages than Edey, Hield and Scott since the playoff field expanded to at least 32 teams in 1975 - Larry Bird (28.6 ppg for Indiana State '79 and Glen Rice (25.6 for Michigan '89). Rice scored 59 points in two Final Four games. The highest F4 total since him was accrued by Arizona guard Miles Simon with 54 in 1997 until Edey supplied 57. Edey joined the following list of individuals in the last 33 tourneys amassing the highest scoring average from a Final Four club since Scott's mark of 27.7 ppg in 1989-90:

Season	Top Scorer Among Final Four Participants	School	Average	Final Four's Two-Game Top Scorer
1989-90	Dennis Scott	Georgia Tech	27.7 ppg	Duke's Phil Henderson/UNLV's Anderson Hunt (49 points)
1990-91	Larry Johnson	UNLV	22.7 ppg	Duke's Christian Laettner (46 points)
1991-92	Christian Laettner	Duke	21.5 ppg	Duke's Bobby Hurley (35 points)
1992-93	Jamal Mashburn	Kentucky	21.0 ppg	Michigan's Chris Webber/ UNC's Donald Williams (50 points)
1993-94	Khalid Reeves	Arizona	24.2 ppg	Arkansas' Corliss Williamson (52 points)
1994-95	Bryant Reeves	Oklahoma State	21.5 ppg	UCLA's Ed O'Bannon (45 points)
1995-96	John Wallace	Syracuse	22.2 ppg	Wallace (50 points)
1996-97	Antawn Jamison	North Carolina	19.1 ppg	Arizona's Miles Simon (54 points)
1997-98	Antawn Jamison	North Carolina	22.2 ppg	Kentucky's Jeff Sheppard (43 points)
1998-99	Richard Hamilton	Connecticut	21.5 ppg	Hamilton (51 points)
1999-00	Morris Peterson	Michigan State	16.8 ppg	Peterson (41 points)
2000-01	Jay Williams	Duke	21.6 ppg	Duke's Shane Battier (43 points)
2001-02	Juan Dixon	Maryland	20.4 ppg	Dixon (51 points)
2002-03	Carmelo Anthony	Syracuse	22.2 ppg	Anthony (53 points)
2003-04	Ben Gordon	Connecticut	18.5 ppg	UConn's Emeka Okafor (42 points)
2004-05	Sean May	North Carolina	17.5 ppg	May (48 points)
2005-06	Glen Davis	Louisiana State	18.6 ppg	Florida's Lee Humphrey (34 points)
2006-07	Arron Affalo	UCLA	16.9 ppg	Ohio State's Greg Oden (38 points)
2007-08	Tyler Hansbrough	North Carolina	22.6 ppg	Memphis' Chris Douglas-Roberts (50 points)
2008-09	Tyler Hansbrough	North Carolina	20.7 ppg	UNC's Ty Lawson (43 points)
2009-10	Jon Scheyer	Duke	18.2 ppg	Duke's Kyle Singler (40 points)
2010-11	Kemba Walker	Connecticut	23.5 ppg	Butler's Shelvin Mack (37 points)
2011-12	Thomas Robinson	Kansas	17.7 ppg	Robinson (37 points)
2012-13	Russ Smith	Louisville	18.7 ppg	Louisville's Luke Hancock (42 points)
2013-14	Shabazz Napier	Connecticut	18.0 ppg	Kentucky's James Young (37 points)
2014-15	Frank Kaminsky	Wisconsin	18.8 ppg	Kaminsky (41 points)
2015-16	Buddy Hield	Oklahoma	25.4 ppg	Villanova's Josh Hart (35 points)
2016-17	Sindarius Thornwell	South Carolina	21.6 ppg	UNC's Justin Jackson/Gonzaga's Nigel Williams-Goss (38 points)
2017-18	Jalen Brunson	Villanova	19.2 ppg	Villanova's Donte DiVincenzo (46 points)
2018-19	Jarrett Culver	Texas Tech	18.9 ppg	Virginia's De'Andre Hunter (41 points)
2018-19	Cassius Winston	Michigan State	18.9 ppg	Virginia's De'Andre Hunter (41 points)
2020-21	Drew Timme	Gonzaga	19 ppg	Baylor's Jared Butler (39 points)
2021-22	Ochai Agbaji	Kansas	18.9 ppg	Kansas' David McCormack (40 points)
2022-23	Adama Sanogo	Connecticut	17.1 ppg	Sanogo (38 points)
2023-24	Zach Edey	Purdue	25 ppg	Edey (57 points)

Purdue's Matt Painter has gotten the monkey off his back. The Final Four missing-in-action microscope in recent years focused on a pair of pilots from Indiana universities - Notre Dame's Mike Brey and Painter) - as the most prominent active power-league coaches participating in more than a dozen tourneys never to reach the national semifinals. Brey, prior to departing to the NBA as an assistant, and Painter were in same AWOL category with all-time greats John Chaney, Fran Dunphy, Lefty Driesell, Gene Keady and Norm Stewart - retired luminaries failing to advance to the national semifinals in a total of 81 NCAA Tournaments before Dunphy returned to coaching ranks at his alma mater (La Salle). "It's so difficult not being able to make that final step," said Chaney, who lost five regional finals with Temple.

Recently-deceased Driesell made 11 NCAA playoff appearances with Davidson and Maryland from 1966 through 1986. "I always wanted to get to the Final Four, but not as much as some people think," said Driesell, who lost four regional finals. "I'm not obsessed with it."

Only four schools - North Carolina, Duke, Georgetown and Syracuse - supplied more NCAA consensus first- and second-team All-Americans from 1982 through 1992 than Stewart-coached Missouri (seven). It was particularly frustrating for Mizzou fans when the Tigers compiled a 4-8 NCAA tourney worksheet in that span.

Some mentors never will receive the accolades they deserve because of failing to reach the Promised Land. Exhibit A much of this century was Purdue, where Keady and Painter combined for 32 NCAA tourney appearances without advancing to national semifinals until Painter took care of business this year in his 15th trip to the playoffs with the Boilermakers. There were 100,000 reasons Sean Miller joined this dubious list after dismal first-round loss against Buffalo in 2018 despite bringing freshman phenom Deandre Ayton to Arizona in some form or fashion (cause or no cause). Miller needed a safe space on campus to curl up in fetal position stemming from eventual fallout from FBI probe prior to returning to Xavier, but the following "Generation Hex" list - with Painter exiting - includes prominent coaches without a Final Four berth on their resume despite more than 10 NCAA Tournament appearances:

For the 14th straight tourney, at least one team reached the Final Four after losing a vital player who could have still been eligible if not defecting to make himself available for the NBA draft or turn pro overseas. Alabama and Connecticut each lost two undergrads in 2023 NBA draft. Bama's Brandon Miller (2nd selection overall) joined Kentucky's John Wall (1st in 2010) and Duke's Jabari Parker (2nd in 2014) as highest picks to miss out on Final Four the next year and is having a regal rookie campaign. Former Bama teammate Noah Clowney and UConn's Jordan Hawkins plus Andre Jackson are spare parts as NBA yearlings. Last year's MOP Adama Sanogo (Connecticut) went undrafted after leaving school with eligibility remaining although he did sign as a free agent with the Chicago Bulls and played in a handful of games this season. Guard Terquavion Smith abandoned ship after two seasons with North Carolina State and also wasn't drafted although he hooked on with the Philadelphia 76ers as a free agent.

Among schools losing a prominent undergraduate early, UConn last year (after losing guard James Bouknight) joined [Kentucky](schools/kentucky '98) (Ron Mercer), Duke '10 (Gerald Henderson) and UK '12 (Brandon Knight) as the only teams still capturing a crown sans such a standout early departure. In a once-in-a-lifetime achievement, UK returned to the national semifinals in 2011 after losing five undergraduates who became NBA first-round draft choices.

The Final Four has had at least one team arrive after losing a prominent undergraduate to the NBA draft 21 times in the last 22 tourneys. Following is a list of the 44 squads unfazed by the early loss of key player(s) who left college with eligibility still remaining:

NCAA Tournament confrontations between members from the same power league are relatively rare. The Duke/North Carolina State matchup in South Regional final this year is 32nd such intra-conference tourney tilt and first-ever between these ACC rivals in the playoffs. Seven seasons ago, SEC rivals Florida and South Carolina met in the East Regional final. It was the first such contest between SEC members in a 31-year span.

The Big Ten Conference, which hasn't supplied an NCAA champion since 2000, accounted for seven of the first 18 NCAA Tournament games pitting league members against each other. Eight campaigns ago marked the first time a league (ACC) generated three intra-conference playoff confrontations in a single tourney. The Duke/NCSU tilt is the ACC's 11th such playoff pairing.

High Point's Alan Huss (27-9), despite inheriting a program with losing record last season, was runaway leader this year for winningest "first-time" head coach after winning Big South Conference regular-season crown and finishing runner-up in CBI. Huss, a former assistant at New Mexico and Creighton, came close to joining select circle of first-year bench bosses cracking the 30-win plateau but sustained seven defeats by fewer than six points. If Arizona had reached the 2022 Final Four, former Gonzaga assistant Tommy Lloyd would have become the all-time winningest rookie head coach.

More than half of the winningest first-year head coaches since Gonzaga's Mark Few in 1999-00 subsequently moved on to other similar jobs. Following are rookie NCAA Division I head coaches with the best winning percentages going back to 1963-64 when Tates Locke became Bob Knight's predecessor at Army:

West Regional winner Alabama advanced to Final Four for the first time in school history. Last year, Florida Atlantic, Miami (Fla.) and San Diego State became the first trio to participate in their first Final Four since Jacksonville, New Mexico State and St. Bonaventure each made their only national semifinal appearance in 1970.

When Gonzaga and South Carolina met at the 2017 Final Four, they were the first set of newcomers to oppose each other at the F4 in 40 years since UNLV defeated UNC Charlotte in the 1977 national third-place game. Newbies Memphis State and Providence clashed in the 1973 semis.

Prior to Connecticut in 1999, the last team to win a championship in its initial national semifinal appearance was Texas Western (now Texas-El Paso) in 1966. Following in reverse order are the "first-timer" schools - two of them coached by Hugh Durham setting standard for Jim Larranaga to duplicate - making their first impression on the Final Four since 1970:

*School subsequently returned to Final Four.

Unless you're busy hoarding toilet paper to wipe George Soros flunky Alvin Bragg's attorney butt, seeking translator to try to understand Plagiarist Bidumb or cowering in fetal position from listening to #TheView's self-anointed vixens, it's your opportunity to start taking online tests for 23 quarantined days symbolic of normal time frame from Selection Sunday to Monday evening championship contest.

We need something to occupy our minds during quarantine from much of the invective-infected #MessMedia. Emphasizing a "one-and-only" theme for a "one-and-only" event, here is Day 13 of a treasure-trove of tantalizing NCAA Tournament trivia questions from CollegeHoopedia.com tracking the only coach, conference, player or school to be linked to a distinguished or dubious achievement (click here for answers or conduct research digesting historical morsels in CollegeHoopedia.com's year-by-year highlights):

1. Who is the only team-leading scorer of a Final Four team to go scoreless when the school was eliminated from championship contention at the national semifinals? Hint: He was a center who along with four teammates averaged between 11 and 12.5 points per game.

2. Who is the only player to twice lead the nation in scoring average while playing for teams advancing to the Final Four? Hint: He is the only team-leading scorer to twice be more than 10 points below his season scoring mark when his school was eliminated at the Final Four.

3. Name the only school to lose two national championship games by at least 18 points after leading the finals at halftime. Hint: The two opponents, 17 years apart, combined to win 66 of 68 games those seasons.

4. Name the only school to make as many as eight consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances from the year it participated in the event for the first time. Hint: The school's last playoff victory wasn't during this streak, but it later handed UCLA its first West Regional defeat in 14 years.

5. Name the only school to lose as many as 15 opening-round games in the NCAA Tournament. Hint: The university also lost a first-round game in 1984 after winning a qualifying round contest when playoff field was 53 teams.

6. Who is the only athlete to collect more than 3,000 major league hits, including 465 homers, after playing the entire basketball game for a school when it appeared in the NCAA Tournament for the first time. Hint: The outfielder appeared in 12 All-Star Games and two World Series after never playing in minors.

7. Who is the only player to have a single-digit point total in a national semifinal game and then increase his output by more than 20 points in the championship game? Hint: The center for two years between two three-time consensus first-team All-Americans shot just over 40% from the floor for the season entering title game where he had a game-high and career-high point total.

8. Who is the only player to have a decrease of more than 25 points from his national semifinal game scoring total to his championship game output? Hint: He was a member of the first undefeated NCAA champion and subsequently became an NBA first-round draft choice.

9. Name the only school to defeat two eventual Final Four teams by double-digit margins in their conference tournament. Hint: The school was handily eliminated in the NCAA playoffs by one of the two Final Four teams it decisively defeated in their league tourney.

10. Name the only school to reach the NCAA championship game in back-to-back seasons it was defeated by double-digit margins in its conference tournament. Hint: The school swept its home-and-home series in regular-season conference competition against the teams defeating it in league tourney.

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