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1980 Louisville Basketball: Denny Crum’s Breakthrough National Title

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Denny Crum was an assistant for the great John Wooden at UCLA, when the opportunity arose to take the Louisville job in 1972. Crum inherited a program that had been a consistent winner, but had only made the Final Four in 1959. Crum promptly went to the Final Four in his first season. He went […]

The 1980 NCAA Tournament: The First Gutted Final Four

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The 1980 NCAA Tournament took it a step further and produced the first-ever gutted Final Four, where three of the participants were seeded #5 or lower and it left the door open for powerhouse Louisville to roll to a national championship.