re: Only three 11 seeds have made it to Final Four

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The one that had the best shot was the ‘80-‘81 Team until Rudy got hurt in NO.

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No brainer I agree, probably not IMHO Dale's most talented team but a lot of experience playing together with seniors Macklin, Ethan, Cookie and Sims complemented by frosh Swat Mitchell and soph Hi-C.

Not much depth at all on that team though which is why Rudy getting hurt was so big. Johhny Jones, John Tudor and Tyron Black were reserves but in big games Dale and Huckaby really didn't trust them and they didn't play much.

I actually think the 84 and 85 teams had more depth of talent and they both bowed out in lopsided losses to much lower seeds in the first round. of course the 90 team with Shaq, Stanley, CJ, Williamson, Singleton et al was very talented if inexperienced, but at least they lost to a very good team and in the second round. The crime there was being seeded 5 because of their underachievement in the regular season.