Best college basketball teams not to win a title: The Sweet 16

Posted Sep 24, 2014
But a team that coach Dean Smith would later confess he believed to be the best in the country was never quite the same after Kenny Smith, its floor leader, broke his wrist in late January. And in Atlanta, in the semifinal of the East Regional, North Carolina ran into an Indiana team that, after finishing third in the Big Ten, delivered the game of its season. (Sports Illustrated)

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