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Jim Boeheim returns Syracuse to the Championship
Game for the third time, improving his record to .644 and moving up
from 20th place to 14th place on the list. The third time proves
the charm for Boeheim as the Orangemen defeat a
Roy Williams led Kansas team for Boeheim's
first championship. Boeheim's Syracuse
teams lost in the championship game to
Bob Knight's Indiana team in 1987 and to
Tubby Smith's Kentucky team in 1996.
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Roy Williams and Kansas come up one game
short, losing to
Jim Boeheim's Syracuse team in the finals.
Williams, who has made four trips to the Final Four (1991,
1993 and 2002 before this year), also lost
a championship game to
Mike Krzyzewski's Duke team in 1991 in
his third year at the helm of Kansas. Williams moves over .700 and
up one place to sixth on the list.
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Rick Barnes leads Texas to the
Final Four and moves up the list to .450, moving out of a
tie for second to last place.
This was the third Final Four
appearance for Texas, which finished tied for third in
1943 and won the second national third place game in 1947.
Barnes also took Providence (0-3) and Clemson (2-3)
to the tournament before hitting it big in Texas.
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Kelvin Sampson leads Oklahoma
to the Elite Eight, one year after making it to the Final
Four. The 7-2 record for the last two years
balances out his previous 3-8 record, allowing
him to move up to .500 at 10-10. Sampson failed to
win a tournament game in his first 5 tries (the first loss with
Washington State in 1994, the rest with Oklahoma in successive years)
before reaching the Sweet 16 with Oklahoma in 1999.
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Michigan State reaches the Elite Eight, dropping
Tom Izzo to .792, good enough
to remain in first place. Izzo's Michigan State
teams went to the Final Four in three of the previous four
years ('99, '00, '01), winning it all in 2000.
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Duke only makes the Sweet 16 for the second straight year (after
winning it all two years ago), dropping
Mike Krzyzewski to .789, but keeping
him in second place on the list.
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Tubby Smith and Kentucky reach the Elite
Eight, improving Smith's record slightly from .714 to .719.
Smith has not returned to the Final Four since winning the
championship in 1998, his first year at the helm of the Kentucky
program, though he has made the Elite Eight twice and the Sweet
16 four times in that period.
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Lute Olson takes Arizona to the Elite
Eight and improves his record from .629 to .636. Just
two years ago, Olson's Arizona finished second to Duke's
Mike Krzyzewski.
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Skip Prosser's Wake Forest team
wins one and loses one, giving Prosser enough games to
debut on the list at .300 in second to last place.
Prosser previously took Loyola of Maryland and Xavier to
the tournament, without much success.
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