Interesting Facts on Kentucky and Final 4 Coaches

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From FOX Sports:
http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/7921202/Ten-tips-for-filling-out-your-NCAA-brackets

In one of the weird cosmic links in the sports world, the success of the Kentucky Wildcats seems to be oddly intertwined with the success of the Bronx Bombers. Kentucky's won seven national titles — second to only UCLA, which has won 11. In six of those seven years — 1949, 1951, 1958, 1978, 1996, and 1998 — the New York Yankees ended up winning the World Series six months later.

1949 — Oklahoma State and the Brooklyn Dodgers
1951 — Kansas State and the New York Giants

1958 — Seattle and the Milwaukee Braves

1978 — Duke and the Los Angeles Dodgers

1996 — Syracuse and the Atlanta Braves

1998 — Utah and the San Diego Padres

There are a lot of young "up and coming" coaches in college basketball these days. Real bright shining stars. And that's great. But none of them stand a chance of winning it all come March Madness. The last time a coach participating in his first Final Four actually won the NCAA championship was 1999, when Jim Calhoun's Richard Hamilton-led Connecticut Huskies beat Duke for the national title. Since then, every title-winning coach — Tom Izzo in '00, Mike Krzyzewski in '01, Gary Williams in '02, Jim Boeheim in '03, Calhoun (again) in '04, Roy Williams in '05, and Billy Donovan in '06 and '07 — had at least one Final Four appearance already under his belt. You've got to walk before you can run. Or something like that.