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UConn’s Shocking Upset Over Duke Sends Shockwaves Through Final Four, But What’s Next for Illinois, Arizona, and Michigan?

UConn’s Shocking Upset Over Duke Sends Shockwaves Through Final Four, But What’s Next for Illinois, Arizona, and Michigan?

This year’s meeting of 1 vs. 1 — Michigan vs. Arizona — is a heavyweight matchup of power teams from power conferences meeting with everything at stake.

It’s a far cry from a mere three years ago, when mid-majors Florida Atlantic (coached by Dusty May, who now leads the Wolverines) and San Diego State crashed college basketball’s biggest party.

Since then, NIL and the transfer portal have reshaped the contours of player movement, another spasm of realignment has made the big conferences bigger (Arizona, now in the Big 12, was in the Pac-12 in 2023), and the high-achieving underdogs who used to make March Madness what it is have gone into a slump.

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