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Not since 1976 when the Indiana Hoosiers finished 32-0 has a men’s college basketball team gone undefeated.
Tonight, the Gonzaga Bulldogs aim to break that streak and end a season with a perfect record, in the process, earning their first national championship in program history. To do that, they’ll have to get past the Baylor Bears, who incidentally are also searching for their school’s first men’s basketball title.
Whatever happens tonight, history will be made. What a treat that we get to watch it.
The Zags have bulldozed their way through most of the season, winning every game but one by double digits until having to squeak out a buzzer-beating overtime victory over UCLA in the Final Four. The quartet of Drew Timme, Corey Kispert, Jalen Suggs, and Joel Ayayi each score in double figures and have Gonzaga averaging 92.1 points per game, one of the finer offensive teams we’ve seen in recent memory.
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March is over, but the madness continues. The laten-night Final Four game needed overtime Saturday at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, and it ended with a spectacular 3-point shot at the buzzer to send Gonzaga to the national championship.
Gonzaga ended UCLA s Cinderella run with a heart-pounding 93-90 win. It extends Gonzaga s record to 31-0 this season and, on Monday, the Bulldogs can become the first team since 1976 to finish a season with a perfect record. The last to do it was the Indiana Hoosiers, who won the national championship 45 years ago with perfection.
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The early rounds of the 2021 NCAA men s basketball tournament earned the name March Madness with a whirlwind of upsets and surprises. After a flurry of additional shocks in the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight, the men s college basketball season heads towards its last weekend with the Final Four on Saturday. The first matchup will feature two top teams when the Midwest region s No. 2 Houston takes on Baylor, the South region s top seed. The second game stars this year s Cinderella team, UCLA a winner in the tourney s First Four play-in games taking on the overall No. 1 ranked Gonzaga. The Zags are not only undefeate
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The Arizona Wildcats earned a No. 2 seed in
Swish Appeal’s hypothetical NCAA Tournament bracket in 2020. So did the UCLA Bruins and Iowa Hawkeyes. The Northwestern Wildcats and Oregon State Beavers were 3 seeds and the Florida State Seminoles and Indiana Hoosiers were 4 seeds.
That handful of non-dominant programs represented the parity in women’s college basketball, which had only increased since the 11-time national champion UConn Huskies last won the title in 2016. Related
At the beginning of this season we knew that UConn still wasn’t back to being a prohibitive favorite (even though they had added No. 1 Hoop Gurlz recruit Paige Bueckers) and by season’s end the door was wide-open for any of the top seven overall seeds to win the national championship. We also knew that many of the teams in the 3- to 7-seed range could make runs as well.