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Quaker oats: Penn hoops history looms large in NCAA tourney upset culture | The Kansas City Star

The 1979 Final Four is best remembered for the unprecedented television ratings to watch the Bird and Magic show and as the catalyst for exponential growth in March Madness.

From astronomical television rights contracts to the first wave of mega-conferences to the mania over filling out brackets all across the country today, you can trace it all back to that scene.

But the undertones of the undercard at that Final Four had special significance, too.

Joining another then-national power, DePaul, in Provo, Utah, was the University of Pennsylvania of the Ivy League.

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