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Looking back on the Runnin' Utes' historic 1998 Final Four season, 20 years later

SALT LAKE CITY — It’s been exactly 20 years since the Runnin’ Utes lost to Kentucky in the championship game of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

But the 1998 Final Four team remains the high mark in the state’s college basketball history, and brought notoriety to former coach Rick Majerus and a group of players that went on to lengthy professional and coaching careers.

It started with one of the best regular-season records in school history. With the help of some of those that were a part of that season, we look back at the magical year of 1998.