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The 2011 NCAA tournament run by VCU is regarded by some as one of the best Cinderella runs of all time. [3] They are the first men's Division I basketball team that played in the First Four to make it to the Final Four; UCLA made a similar run ten years later. They also join the 2020–21 Bruins as the only teams in the tournament to win five ...
Smart was a four-year starter for the Kenyon Lords basketball team, and set school records for assists in a season (184) and career (542). [2] [3] [4] As a senior, Smart was named to the All-North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) team and NCAC Scholar Athlete of the Year. Smart was also named to the 1999 USA Today All-USA Academic Team. [3] [6]
Students celebrate VCU's upset victory over Kansas. The win gave VCU a berth into the Final Four. From 2009 to 2015, the Rams were led by Shaka Smart, who had been previously an assistant coach for the Florida Gators men's basketball team. Prior to Florida, Smart served as an assistant coach at Clemson, Akron and California (Pa.) and a director ...
Has Shaka Smart ever made the Final Four? In his second season as head coach at VCU, the Rams were one of the last four teams in the NCAA Tournament, winning five straight games as an 11 seed to ...
Things changed for Smart during the 2010-11 season as he went from a novice head coach to a college basketball household name as he led the Rams from the First Four to the Final Four in the NCAA ...
Had things gone differently in 2011, when N.C. State was looking to hire a new basketball coach, it could have been Shaka Smart. Smart had just taken Virginia Commonwealth from the NCAA’s ...
Shaka Smart: VCU: 2011 2011 1 0 0 Tubby Smith: Kentucky 1998 1998 1 0 1 Gary Thompson: ... The Big East is the only conference to have three teams in the Final Four ...
The team is best known for its Final Four run in the 2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, the first time the Rams made it beyond the second round. The Rams' journey to the Final Four under coach Shaka Smart began in one of the four opening round games, commonly called "play-in" games, intended to narrow the field from 68 to 64 teams.