{"id":38811,"date":"2021-04-04T09:19:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T13:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=38811"},"modified":"2024-12-14T17:08:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T22:08:36","slug":"the-incredible-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2021\/04\/04\/the-incredible-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2021 NCAA March Madness tournament has been one of the wildest<\/a> in recent memory. Upset after upset, Oregon State making a deep run. PAC-12 dominating and ACC faltering. The Final Four on Saturday lived up to the hype, well, not the first game.<\/p>\n

All in all, the field is set for the National Championship game Monday night. One school with be the champs, the other the unfortunate, albeit still proud, runner-up.<\/p>\n

Let’s dive in and recap these wild games on Saturday in the Final Four.<\/p>\n

The Incredible Final Four<\/h2>\n

It was wild, it was whacky, and it was madness. Most of all, it was exciting and ended in fantastic fashion, one that nobody imagined a couple of weeks back when the field was announced.<\/p>\n

March is always unpredictable, and the turn of the calendar kept it that way.<\/p>\n

Final Four Game 1: Baylor rolls past Houston<\/h3>\n

An all-Texas battle in the first game of the Final Four. The one-seed Baylor Bears versus the two-seed Houston Cougars, something that wasn’t too far off from the expected.<\/p>\n

Scott Drew and the Bears rolled from start to finish with a final of 78-59. Baylor was up by 25 at the half and never looked back. Houston shot just 38 percent from the field compared to Baylor’s 52.7 percent clip. The Bears had five players in double-figures and continued their successful season- to the surprise of nobody.<\/p>\n

Houston’s terrific season comes to a close, with head coach Kelvin Sampson and the Cougars holding their heads up high. They lost four games all year, which is a testament to the job Sampson has done.<\/p>\n

Baylor was expecting to win, and their reaction after the final buzzer was a bit surprising.<\/p>\n

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See you, Monday Night. \ud83d\ude01#SicEm<\/a> | #TimeIsNow<\/a> \ud83c\udfc0pic.twitter.com\/fWvjDGxrKp<\/a><\/p>\n

— Baylor Men\u2019s Basketball (@BaylorMBB) April 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n