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This year’s male basketball finals Four are as “chalk” as the chalk gets: All four seeds No. 1 in the holder advanced from their respective regions.
Even by the expectation that the best seeds have a better shot to achieve Final Four, this year it has been the second time since the NCAA tournament has started in 1979 that all four seeds No. 1 advanced to the last weekend.
The only other year developed such an occurrence in 2008.
Here is what the university basketball and the pop -cultural landscape looked like when the last four were made up exclusively of the best seeds.
The goal is known …
The final four of 2008 and 2025 share one thing that does not include team vaccination: San Antonio. San Antonio will host the fifth Final Four this weekend.
Basketball college students will be lucky if the 2008 tournament excitement is replicated this year. The 2008 tournament was determined through an exciting national championship game with Kansas Jayhawks top Memphis tigers in overtime. The competition is one of the only two male basketball national title games, which will be decided by overtime in the 21st century.
… but the fate of the teams participated did not decide
At the end of the 2008 season, all the Final Four Final Four programs were in very different places. Houston, who was at the USA conference, started at a university basketball invitation semifinals. Duke won seed 2 at the NCAA tournament, but was upset in round 32 West Virginia.
Florida, fresh from the national championships in two years, has experienced a year down and lost five of its seven game games on the way to the thread offer. Auburn ended in 14-16, including elimination in the first round of the Sec tournament.
Leona Lewis culminates charts
At the top of Billboard Hot 100 in the Final Four 2008 week, Leona Lewis’ Hit “Bleeding Love” was from her debut studio album “Spirit”.
The connection of Lewis and “Bleeding Love” in the TOP 10 Billboard This week was a number of other unforgettable songs and artists, including “Love in This Club” by Usher (representing the young Jeeze), “Love Song” by Sara Bareilles from Flo Rida (representing T-Pain) and “not stop music” by Rihann.
Grand Theft Auto IV flies out of shelves
Weeks after the 2008 finals wrapped in San Antonio, Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto IV.
The game was well received and then some. Its release was made on the first day of $ 310 million and received the Guinness world record for the “highest grossing video game in 24 hours”. Grand Theft Auto IV also held against a critical eye, with its design and playing enthusiastic reviews.
Elsewhere in the sports world appeared a classic NBA final match
When the university basketball season was packed in 2008, its professional counterpart was just preparing for Postseason – and the NBA 2008 final released a historical clash.
Two of the most foundable franchises of the league – Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics – He met and decided to make a champion this year. It was marked 11th time when two teams in the finals faced. Boston, led by Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen, won over the Lakers Kobe Bryant’s Lakers in six games.
