Four 1’s unique, but not so different than what we’ve seen before

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Four 1’s unique, but not so different than what we’ve seen before
Busted Coverage: Booze, Ladies And Football found this 3/31/2008 on www.thermocaster.com [flag]
Guess the big boys showed us, eh? Forgot that charming George Mason story from 2006 - we need predictability! And thus we have a first: Four number one seeds in the Final Four. Congrats hombres. Still, while it’s new, we’ve been darn close before. Three times previous - 1999, 97, and 93 - a trio of on seeds made the Final Four (although in 1997 the only non-one, 4th-seeded ... [link]

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