The ultimate Cinderella will face the one of the college basketball's biggest blue bloods for a spot in the Final Four on Sunday night.
differences between these two college basketball programs, perhaps it is best to cover all that they have in common.Fact is, you would be hard pressed to find a more improbable matchup that the one that will take place in the East Regional Final on Sunday night — and that’s true even if you just looked at the brackets when the NCAA Tournament started.
But the reasons this matchup is so unique is about far more than one month of basketball. These two college hoops programs are polar opposites in almost every quantifiable way. For fun — and to kill some time until tip-off — here is a tale of the tape between the two teams:North Carolina is perhaps the gold standard when it comes to March Madness success, a program that has reached 20 Final Fours , won 119 NCAA Tournament games and cut the nets after six NCAA championships .
Saint Peter’s has had nine different coaches since Don Kennedy went 323-195 from 1952-70. Four of them left the program with a losing record.North Carolina generated more than $100 million in revenue from its athletic teams in 2020-21 and spent just as much. Its merchandise is always ranked among the top sellers nationally.
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