It can’t be all No. 1 seeds every year. Last season’s men’s college basketball Final Four featured four top seeds for only the second time since 1979, with fewer early tournament upsets and more heavyweight battles deep into the bracket. It’s trendy to say that the NIL and transfer portal killed Cinderella, but the sample size is still too small to make such bold proclamations.
The Final Four features at least one legitimate sleeper in most years. In 2024, No. 11 seed NC State needed to win the ACC tournament just to get an at-large bid, then danced all the way to the Final Four. In 2023, Florida Atlantic made
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