There is no Duke and, sadly, no more Zion Williamson sightings.
This will be a fourth straight Final Four without One-and-Done University, better known in the Bluegrass State as the Kentucky Wildcats.
We also won’t see North Carolina or Kansas, two other programs that stock their programs by selecting, and not recruiting, from the very best talent.
Instead, we have first-timers Auburn and Texas Tech alongside Virginia and Michigan State meeting in Minneapolis. Only the Spartans (1979 and 2000) fly national championship flags in their home arena.
It’s an odd group and only the second time since the conference expansion craze that all of the Final Four teams hail from Football Five conferences.