(Photo: Patrick Semansky, Associated Press)
They’re still here.
And if there’s a common thread tying together this oddly-stitched Final Four quilt, with two first-timers making the trip to Minneapolis and another program making its first foray in 35 years, that’s probably it.
The one-and-dones are done again, sent home before the final weekend of the NCAA tournament once more. What’s left is a curious quartet that may lack NBA-ready stars and probably won’t produce the TV ratings network executives were hoping for, but does as a collective group boast something else.
“Experience matters, it really does,” Michigan State’s Tom Izzo was saying after his Spartans had outlasted No.