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In the locker room on Sunday afternoon, only minutes after South Carolina clinched a spot in the Final Four—its first in school history—coach Frank Martin repeated a two-word question he asked his players around the same time last week: “Why not?”

“Why not us?” Gamecocks star Sindarius Thornwell echoed after the game.

That’s the question three of the teams left in the NCAA tournament can reasonably ask themselves. South…