NC St. & UConn

[Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo]

With NC State's upsets over Texas and Duke today, if UConn women win tomorrow, these two schools will account for half of all of this year's Final Four participants.

Numerous times one program has put both its men and women in the Final Four in the same year. But has there ever been a year where two schools did it??

 

[fezzador]

A 14 loss team should have no business dancing. Wolf pack got hot at just the right time (think they even got the ACC auto bid) They’d beat Purdue and Bama for sure. Doubt they’d beat UConn but who knows.

 

[Hawktagonapus]

A 14 loss team should have no business dancing. Wolf pack got hot at just the right time (think they even got the ACC auto bid) They’d beat Purdue and Bama for sure. Doubt they’d beat UConn but who knows.

They won the ACC tournament, they were nowhere near the bubble otherwise

 

[MeetTheFerentzes]

With NC State's upsets over Texas and Duke today, if UConn women win tomorrow, these two schools will account for half of all of this year's Final Four participants.

Numerous times one program has put both its men and women in the Final Four in the same year. But has there ever been a year where two schools did it??

My quick search showed the exhaustive list (going back to '82 when the women's tourney became official) of:

Georgia '83
Duke '99
Oklahoma '02
Texas '03
UConn '04 (both champs), '09, '11, and '14 (both champs) (potential '24)
Michigan St '05
LSU '06
Louisville in '13
Syracuse '16
South Carolina '17
NC State in '24

So, this indeed would be the first year to have 2 schools accomplish the feat.

 

[blubberhawk]

They won the ACC tournament, they were nowhere near the bubble otherwise

Bob Knight was correct. Conference tournaments suck.

 

[Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo]

Bob Knight was correct. Conference tournaments suck.

Maybe, but at least NC State backed it up with a Final Four run, unlike Iowa, which has exited the dance in embarrassing Round 1 losses the last two times we've won the BTT.

 

[coorsoriginal02]

I love this excitement for NC State. What a fun March for that fanbase!

 

[hawkirugged17]

 

[UpstreamHawkeye]

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Dream on!