re: Every team's first year in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament

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Never thought about the first appearance year cool stats.

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OU basketball will never win an NC. Probably has had more final fours in our past than we will in our future. But it will always be pretty cool that OU made the first one.

It's kind of funny. 1939 is when Steinback came out with the "Grapes of Wrath"... effectively dooming Oklahoma's perception among people of other states maybe forever.

Yet Oklahoma had an Orange Bowl football team that year ('38 season) and a Final Four basketball team that year . Oklahoma State had won multiple wrestling championships including that year.

Pretty good for a bunch of destitute share croppers.