We interrupt the college basketball tournaments currently in action to take a look back at 10 of the most interesting moments in Final Four history with a Philadelphia connection 👇
We interrupt the college basketball tournaments currently in action to take a look back at 10 of the most interesting moments in Final Four history with a Philadelphia connection.Villanova made it to the first in 1939, while La Salle played in the first championship to be nationally televised.
Local coaches, especially on the women’s side, have made their mark on the Final Four. From Geno Auriemma to10. Gola Gold Tom Gola had 19 points and 19 rebounds, and Charles Singley had 23 points to lead La Salle to the 1954 title win over Bradley. It was the first championship game nationally televised. Gola became one of the few players to win NCAA and NIT championships.No Big 5 women’s team has ever been to a Final Four, but several Philly-area coaches have taken teams there. Muffet McGraw, who
, made nine Final Four appearances — none more memorable than 2018 when Notre Dame’s Arike Ogunbowale hit the winning shot in each Final Four game to give McGraw her second championship for the Irish.are the last Ivy League team to reach the Final Four. Their second-round win over top-seeded North Carolina — in Raleigh, N.C., no less — has been dubbed “Black Sunday” by UNC fans. Wins over Syracuse and St.
NBC had the tournament rights in 1981 and decided to televise the national championship game despite President Reagan being seriously wounded earlier that afternoon. “ABC and CBS are on the air [with news] and we’re playing games,” NBC sports anchor Bryant Gumbel said at the time. “It makes us look like callous boobs.” Isiah Thomas had 23 points to lead Indiana to a 63-50 win over North Carolina at the Spectrum. It was the last men’s championship game played in Philadelphia.
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