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INDIANAPOLIS, IN – APRIL 04: Sam Dekker #15 of the Wisconsin Badgers celebrates after defeating the Kentucky Wildcats during the NCAA Men’s Final Four Semifinal at Lucas Oil Stadium on April 4, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Wisconsin defeated Kentucky 71-64. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

Deja Vu Is Bad For Big Blue: Wisconsin Calls Forth A 24-Year-Old Memory And Shatters Kentucky’s Dream

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We wrote about it multiple times this week — the memory of the 1991 Final Four in Indianapolis loomed over the heavyweight national semifinal on Saturday night between Wisconsin and Kentucky. Nearly a quarter of a century since Duke ruined UNLV’s unbeaten season in Indianapolis, Wisconsin traveled to the Hoosier heartland to make its own […]

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – APRIL 04: Jahlil Okafor #15 of the Duke Blue Devils reacts after a play in the second half as Mike Krzyzewski looks on against the Michigan State Spartans during the NCAA Men’s Final Four Semifinal at Lucas Oil Stadium on April 4, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)

Putting The D In Duke: Coach K Holds Sway In The Drive For Title Number Five

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Saturday evening in Indianapolis, the Road To The Final Four had already ended. The roads connecting college basketball’s past and present continued to flow. The direction of those roads led to Durham, not East Lansing. Mike Krzyzewski and Tom Izzo had met before in the Final Four — in 1999 in St. Petersburg, Florida, with […]

10 Things to Look For in the Final Four

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The Final Four features three of the top four Ken Pom teams for the first time since 2012. In the human polls, Kentucky was No. 1 the entire season, Duke never left the top five, and Wisconsin slipped as low as 7th. Michigan State is 15th in Ken Pom. The Spartans were ranked for five […]

Who was the most underrated team in college football history?

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Earlier today we talked about who was the greatest team in the history of college football in the morning portion of our weekly roundtable. This afternoon, we return as TSS Associate Editors Bart Doan and Terry Johnson join Kevin Causey in our weekly roundtables discussing all things college football. We looked at the best this morning […]

The Mismatches Work Both Ways In Kentucky-Wisconsin

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With the Final Four quickly approaching, people are looking for different ways to talk about each national semifinal on Saturday. Duke playing Michigan State has that tried-and-true angle: Coach K and Tom Izzo. Kentucky-Wisconsin is being viewed by many in a different way, one which — unfortunately — ignores a season’s worth of evidence in […]

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