Jim Calhoun and John Calipari have the bad luck to show up in the Final Four, after the coaching jobs they did and the expectations they defied, and share the stage with not just one but two bona fide Cinderellas. In any other year, Connecticut and Kentucky, even with their combined seven national championships and 18 Final Four trips, would be the underdogs, the tournament darlings, the guys who bucked the odds. Calhoun and Calipari also have the bad luck, in a semifinal bracket that was immediately branded as “Good vs. Evil…”
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