Repeating as champion has proved to be incredibly hard in college basketball, but it's just as difficult to have success the year after for the runner-up. 

Butler made consecutive NCAA tournament finals in 2010 and 2011, but since then, the national championship runner-up has fallen at least one round short of getting back to the title game the following season. Yet it seems that trend may be coming to an end for the 2016-17 campaign.

The No. 4 North Carolina Tar Heels are fresh off a dominant run through the Maui Invitational after capping things off Wednesday with a 71-56 win over the No. 16 Wisconsin Badgers, and they're l...

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