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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 ...
This was also the first Final Four to not feature any 1-seed or 2-seeds. The Final Four had the highest combined Final Four seeds since seeding started in 1979, with 26 (11-VCU, 8-Butler, 4-Kentucky & 3-Connecticut). Connecticut defeated Butler in the championship game 53–41, winning its third national championship as in many attempts.
Led by third-year head coach Shaka Smart, the Rams were coming off a season marked by a run to the Final Four. Expected to finish lower in the CAA regular season standings, the Rams finished as regular season runners-up with a 15–3 conference record, before winning the 2012 CAA Men's Basketball Championship against Drexel, 59–56, earning ...
The 2011 NCAA tournament run by VCU is regarded as one of the best Cinderella runs of all time. [14] Their First Four appearance, combined with their run to the Final Four, gave VCU the distinction of being the first team to win five games in the men's NCAA tournament without reaching the championship game.
After defeating the Wisconsin Badgers in the Sweet Sixteen 61–54, they took the Florida Gators into overtime, emerging victorious 74–71 to earn a spot in the Final Four. They would defeat the Cinderella of the tournament, VCU, in another closely contested game, 70–62, to return to their second consecutive national championship game. [3]
The VCU Rams men's college basketball team competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I, representing Virginia Commonwealth University in the Atlantic 10 Conference. [1] VCU has played its home games at Stuart C. Siegel Center in Richmond, Virginia since its opening in 1999.
For New Mexico: The Lobos start Mountain West play at 1 p.m. on Dec. 28 in Fort Collins, Colorado, against the Colorado State Rams, the team that lost on Saturday to this VCU team in a game played ...
He married his wife Maya Payne Smart in 2006 and had his daughter Zora in 2011. Smart rose to prominence in 2011 after leading Virginia Commonwealth University to its first and only Final Four appearance in school history in the 2011 NCAA tournament .