Cinderella stayed home. Forget that Kentucky is an 8 seed and Connecticut a 7. Of those teams that have advanced to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament, all are major programs and three have won multiple national championships.
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It’s easy to paint John Calipari as a con artist. He’s slick and perceived as shady, a reputation earned through great recruiting. The Kentucky coach runs an NBA farm team on a college campus.
Findlay Prep’s boys basketball team boasts two McDonald’s All-Americans. But it was another senior standout who guided the Pilots to a victory on Thursday.
Spencer Haywood, the basketball legend who lives in Las Vegas and helped change the culture of the game for future players by changing the NBA’s early entry rule in 1971, does not get enough votes to be a member of the Class of 2014. But he remains hopeful that he’ll make it to Springfield someday.