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[QUOTE="Blue Blood, post: 3936446, member: 5907"]
Sorry if already discussed. Yahoo put together a list of the 10 greatest final 4 games. 77-74 came in at number 4 and 04 duke was an honorable mention the whole article is  good but our write up is below.

[HEADING=1]4. UConn 77, Duke 74 (1999 final)[/HEADING]
The 1999 tournament unfolded just as the 2021 version has. Early rounds were full of upheaval. Later rounds, however, left America with the heavyweight showdown it had craved all along.

Duke, led by Elton Brand and Trajan Langdon, with sophomore Shane Battier as a helluva fifth option, seemingly entered the game at its turn-of-the-century peak. It hadn't lost since November. Its 32-game win streak churned through seven top-10 teams. UConn had only lost twice all season, but still entered March 29, 1999, as a nine-point underdog.

Together, they gave us the greatest 40 minutes of basketball that March Madness has ever seen. Rip Hamilton and Langdon traded big-time buckets. The teams traded slender leads. Neither ever led by more than seven.

The only thing they didn't deliver was a memorable finish.
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