Analysis: Florida Atlantic, San Diego State, Miami and Connecticut make up a formless Final Four after a formless college basketball season, Chuck Culpepper writes.
against Texas. Their total number of losses actually proves fewer than the total number of losses from the regal 2022 , largely thanks to Florida Atlantic, which has gone a country-best 35-3 through a league that had a gnarly North Texas in it. The sum of seedings in this Final Four stands at 23 , still shy of the 26 from 2011 . It’s the third Final Four without any No. 1 seed , but the first without any 1, 2 or 3.
Then there’s San Diego, whose citizens often get accused of having so much perspective in their gorgeous setting that they fail to let a team’s hard loss in sports ruin several days or weeks or months at a time. It’s an irrational way to live, of course, but they pull it off with aplomb.
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