Before the men’s Final Four can be set, there’s two more tickets to New Orleans that must be handed out in Sunday’s Elite Eight matchups.
Two of the teams taking the court represent the upper crust of college basketball. North Carolina and Kansas are making their 30th and 26th appearances, respectively, at this stage of the tournament, trailing only Kentucky for most all-time. The schools have 35 combined trips to the Final Four.
On the opposite end, there are two double-digit seeds in the Elite Eight for just the fourth time since the tournament began seeding teams in 1979. One of those double-digit seeds is Saint Peter’s, the highest seed ever to advance this far. Before the No. 15 Peacocks beat Purdue, no school ranked higher than 12th had ever won its Sweet 16 game.
No. 10 seed Miami made its own history in reaching the Elite Eight for the first time by beating Iowa State. And Jim Larrañaga did the same by becoming the first coach to take two different programs as double-digit…
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