What this incredible Final Four NCAA College Basketball field is missing

Story by Yahoo Sports
Written by Pat Forde

In Loyola Chicago, the 2018 Final Four has a Cinderella story for the ages. In Michigan, it has a traditional football power trying to win the Big Ten’s first basketball championship in 18 long years. In Kansas and Villanova, it has two bedrock basketball programs led by coaches aiming for their second national titles.

You know what this Final Four doesn’t have?

Freshmen.

At least not the five-star hot shots from the ballyhooed class of 2017, the guys who were supposed to shape the course of this season in their brief collegiate layover on their way to the NBA. The one-and-dones up and left Bracketville, eliminated by veterans. They can move on to the draft while the team hardware is distributed in San Antonio.

Of the 20 starters on the Final Four teams, just three are freshmen: forward Isaiah Livers of Michigan and centers Cameron Krutwig of Loyola and Omari Spellman of Villanova. Livers is a nominal starter who actually plays backup minutes. Spellman was redshirted last year for academic reasons. If any of the three go pro after playing one season in college, it would come as a considerable surprise.

The rest of the starters, by class: five true seniors; four fourth-year juniors; four true juniors; two third-year sophomores; and two true sophomores.
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