SAN ANTONIO – Welcome to the Final Four, brought to you by the AARP, the Social Security Administration and Geritol. By college basketball standards, the Alamodome this weekend might as well be a nursing home. If you’re looking for a collection of players who are, shall we say, unusually mature to still be in college, you’ve come to the right place.
Meet No. 1 overall seed Auburn , a team whose starting lineup averages 23.4 years of age – the same as the Oklahoma City Thunder and older than the Portland Trail Blazers or Atlanta Hawks .
Meet Houston , a team that starts a pair of 23-year-olds who have played a combined 316 games of college basketball…