Talk:List of NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament Final Four participants

Region

Does anything think a regional section is worthwhile? Also, the Washington, DC area is obviously Mid-Atlantic not South-Atlantic so Georgetown, Maryland, and George Mason should be switched. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.210.115.120 (talk) 18:24, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Seeding

Does anyone think it would make sense to add the seeds next to each team on this page? Gabefarkas (talk) 13:04, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

I think it's a good idea. I'll start (adding it to the Region column, since it's region-specific). --Spiffy sperry (talk) 02:56, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Formatting

What is up with the extraneous apostrophes? I can't find them in the edit window, but they appear on the page.

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I finally found them all - what a pain! Somebody needs to be more careful with formatting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.6.44.195 (talk) 00:40, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm talking to you 00:51, 20 March 2007 67.101.161.130 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.6.44.195 (talk)

In your list of Final Four Participants you list both Oklahoma A&M and Oklahoma State. OA&M and OSU are the same school - it used the Okla A&M title until the middle 50's and then adopted the name Okla State. ```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.13.16.2 (talk) 02:15, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

I've updated the page accordingly, for both Oklahoma State and Memphis, and added a couple of other corrections so that schools are listed in the year-by-year table as they were known at the time, matching the (now UTEP) format, and listed as they are known today elsewhere. It might be a better idea to use the current name everywhere on the page and add a footnote for all such schools to explain everything in one place; I'm not sure if that's the standard for other college pages, if it should be, or if it's uncommon enough to just leave this as is. Zlionsfan (talk) 18:23, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

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Suggested column heading change for Final Fours by Coaches table

BLUF - Suggest column heading "NCG App" in FF by Coaches table be changed to "Runner Up" so that next to last column heading in FFbC matches the next to last column heading in FF by School. They are being recorded the same, but they are NOT the same thing.

DISCUSSION - In the FF by School table the next to last column is titled "Runner Up". In FF by Coaches the next to last column heading reads "NCG App"" (for "appearances", yes?).

These are NOT the same thing, yet apparently they are being treated as if they are identical.

"Runner Up" in FFbS is a game result, and when added to "Champion" properly yields how many times the school made it to the championship game.

"NCG Appearances" in FFbC *by definition* is not a game result. It is a value that properly contains every appearance in the title game, whether the coach's team was the Runner Up or the Champion, the same as the sum of the "Runner Up" and "Champion" columns does in FFbS.

But based on the data entries in the extant FFbC table, "NCG A" is being recorded the same as "Runner Up" in FFbS.

Simply changing the "NCG App" column heading to "Runner Up" in the FFbC table solves the issue without having to edit all the individual data lines in the table.

Thanks for your time and consideration. LTCUSARet (talk) 20:39, 20 December 2023 (UTC)