Final Four Flops During March Madness

[Shame About Ray]

Like many, you’re probably looking at the remains of your Final Four bracket wondering what the hell happened. For the first time in the history of the tournament, we finally get all four No. 1 seeds into the Final Four, only to have two semifinal blowouts.

So what the hell did happen? Well let’s start with Memphis and UCLA. But let’s just forget about UCLA, because once we are done with Memphis, it’s easy to understand what just happened; hindsight is always 20/20.

The Memphis Microscope

When you glance at the Memphis Tigers, it’s easy to see why the vast majority had them pinned as the weakest No. 1 seed. At a second glance, it’s also easy to see why many had them being eliminated before the Final Four. Memphis plays at a break-neck speed. They run and they gun, they shoot early in the shot clock, they crash the boards hard and run a lot of one-on-one offensive sets. They gamble on defense and they were nearly last in free-throw percentage as a team. So what about that resume says “championship caliber”? Well, as coach John Calipari so aptly put it, “It’s Princeton on steroids.” You can call it organized chaos; that’s what Memphis is.

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