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Message: [QUOTE="Palatine, post: 5110563, member: 974"] The NCAA Tourney is basically three two-game tournaments. That's why there are Sweet 16 banners. The next round is the Regional Championship. Win one game in the regionals and folks hang an Elite Eight Banner. Win the Regional Championship and you advance to the final four. Win the FF and you're National Champs. Every step on that journey is an accomplishment. It's why most the schools in the country go crazy when they just make the tournament. For many of the 300 teams in D1 an invite to the dance is generational accomplishment. Those schools hang a NCAA tournament and year banner. My guess is that very school in every Final Four has hung a banner. To call one of most difficult accomplishments in college basketball "participation" is to not understand college basketball. [/QUOTE]