Auburn, Virginia, Texas Tech and Michigan State — unentitled all — make this a national semifinal round “with a little more urgency.”
By Chuck Culpepper Chuck Culpepper Reporter who covers national college football, college basketball, tennis, golf and international sports. Email Bio Follow April 5 at 7:22 PM MINNEAPOLIS — Here at the rescue-dog men’s Final Four, the Associated Press gave its national coach of the year award to Texas Tech’s Chris Beard on Thursday. Beard’s players sat in the audience among reporters, and Tariq Owens, the eloquent graduate transfer from St.
Michigan State’s Aaron Henry gets exuberant during practice Friday in Minneapolis. It’s a Final Four without famed “one-and-done” players, a Final Four built off the painstaking, day-to-day, years-long quest for improvement. Even perhaps its best player, Michigan State leader Cassius Winston, when asked to critique the player he was upon arrival in college, began with, “I would say clueless.
It’s the Final Four where Beard, speaking about all the coaches from the less-lucrative divisions who convene annually at the Final Four, said: “I’ve been in a lot of rooms where it’s two guys in each bed without the comforters because you got more people on the floor with the comforters and then one maybe in the bathroom bathtub with the pillows. We put eight deep before in a Marriott Courtyard, I promise you. The problem is in the mornings with the towel situation. . . .
Yet that loss served only as the epitome of something more entrenched — Virginia’s recent-years track record of March thuds — that make it that rare rescue dog with high rankings. Just Friday, Bennett and leading scorer Kyle Guy dredged up the 2017 atrocity between No. 5 seed Virginia and No. 4 Florida. Late in Virginia’s 65-39 loss, Bennett put Guy and fellow leader Ty Jerome in the game to grant them a full feel of its particular agony.
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