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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 2288230, member: 1414"] I didn't say final fours were luck. But once you get to that final 4, there is luck involved in who ends up taking home the title. Matchups, injuries, guys having an off night, or a great one. The best team doesn't always win (some obvious examples exist, NC State, Nova 85, Arizona, KU in 88). Sometimes it does. That said I did some checking. One of the more astounding things is grouping champions by state. The list below is from the start of the 64 team field in 1985. You can go all the way back to 1967 and only add two new geographies, DC for Georgetown 84 and WI for Marquette in 77. The vast majority of the runner's up come from these same states. [URL="http://www.ncaa.com/history/basketball-men/d1"]Men's Basketball DI[/URL] North Carolina (8) Kentucky (5) Connecticut (4) Michigan (2) Pennsylvania (2) Kansas (2) Florida (2) Arkansas (1) Arizona (1) Nevada (1) Indiana (1) California (1) New York (1) [/QUOTE]