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Oklahoma Sooners Buddy Hield, North Carolina Tar Heels Brice Johnson lead best players in NCAA tournament Final Four

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It's fair to say any team that reaches the Final Four likely has a roster made up of outstanding players. Ranking which players are most outstanding within that group is, by definition, going to be difficult.

But I never shy away from a challenge. I crunched the numbers on players seeing regular minutes during four NCAA tournament games and discovered that Syracuse's Tyler Lydon is now a shot-blocking beast, Oklahoma's Khadeem Lattin just needs a friendly whistle (for a change) and Villanova's Mikal Bridges deserves a cool defensive nickname like "The Glove.