Yahoo Sports’ Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz and basketball analyst Isis ‘Ice’ Young discuss the depth of this year’s semifinal field – only the second ever on the men’s side to feature all four number one seeds. Hear the full conversation on the “College Basketball Power Hour” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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So we’ve talked a lot about how we have 4-1 seeds in the Final Four.
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I love it.
I think it’s great, and I think it’s refreshing that we get the 4 best teams in the sport competing for a national championship.
Matt Norlander of CBS put this tweet out, and it is the top 10 teams in Ken Palm of all time.
We have 4 of the top 10 teams in Ken Palm.
All time competing for a national championship here.
I almost feel like it’s unfair to these teams that 3 of them are going to fall short of the national championship, but I feel so lucky that we may just witness the greatest Final Four in the history of the NCAA tournament.
I look at all of it and say like, OK, what shelf, if I was going into a bar, I’m like, give me top shelf, give me top shelf licker.
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This is a top shelfinal Four.
Like, if it’s not the best, it’s one of the best.
And You have great coaches, you have superstar players.
If you are a fan of each of these teams, you could say, I don’t see a fatal flaw for my favorite team either.
Like, that’s why this is so interesting.
This isn’t, I don’t think this is gonna be about who loses themselves a championship.
This is gonna be about who actually has the hot day, who executes the best, who gets a little lucky cause there’s such a, a, a, a fine line between these teams.
Oh yeah, I mean, I think the the best thing is that across the board, there’s no talent discrepancy with either of these teams.
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Everybody is equally talented, everybody’s got depth, everybody has size.
Everybody has ran through their conference and has been battle tested.
To me, to the.
Cool coolest aspect of this is seeing that a coach will get his first time national championship.
Like how cool is it that none of these coaches have won a national championship?
Like we all, we all here for the first time and I think it makes it for like an interesting story.
I love that it’s all number one, not because the committee was right, but because the number one took care of business.
Yes.
They came into the tournament and were like, we’re number one.
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We worked this hard for this seeding.
Now let’s show people why we are number one.
At the end of the day, somebody will probably get outcoached, which is also exciting to watch.
I don’t know about you, but I love to see when a coach gets out coached, and they got to figure it out.
And it’s like, yeah, you just had in the wrong player at that time.
You’re gonna take this L. Um, but these games are going to be good.
And I’m just excited to see a coach for the first time get a national championship.
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