The Internet Went Crazy Over South Carolina Making Its First Final Four


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Much to the surprise of basically everyone, South Carolina will represent the East Region in the Final Four after beating Florida on Sunday, 77-70. The Gamecocks are this year’s Cinderella, as the 7-seed escaped the region that boasted Villanova and Duke to make it to the first Final Four in school history.

After losing five of its final eight regular season games and getting bounced from the SEC Tournament in the first round, South Carolina flipped a switch as it entered the Tournament and has managed to beat Marquette, Duke, Baylor, and Florida. The odds of this happening, as ESPN’s John Gasaway showed us, were astronomical.

Gasaway isn’t the only person who is in awe at this run by Frank Martin’s squad. A ton of people on the internet are stoked that the Gamecocks are actually going to Phoenix.

People in attendance were blown away, too. One such person was the school’s most famous fan: ex-Hootie and the Blowfish lead singer Darius Rucker.

The numbers for this run are especially crazy. This doesn’t just mean the unlikelihood of the team’s run, but also the numbers that illustrate just how good South Carolina has been during the Tournament.

But above everything else, people are happy for Martin, whose journey to the Final Four has taken an extremely long time.

We’ll give Martin the final word, as he told Allie LaForce of CBS how this run happened.

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