March Madness Jersey Sigs

[robbman21]

This is a spinoff of the NFL college series I did earlier, although instead of NBA'ers from a certain school, I just made sigs of the more notable players from each school's prospective final four run. My plan is to do the past 20 champions, because anything older than that will be difficult to get the full roster, stats showing who contributed the most, and good reference pics for accuracy. If I CAN find those things for certain historical teams like 1979's Michigan State and Indian State, then I'll definitely do them as well. Here's what I have so far.

1993 NORTH CAROLINA

1994 ARKANSAS

1995 UCLA

1997 ARIZONA

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2000 MICHIGAN STATE

2001 DUKE

2003 SYRACUSE

2006 FLORIDA

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2007 FLORIDA

In addition to the champions sigs, I'm also doing some of the more notable final four teams from the past couple of decades.

1992 MICHIGAN

1993 MICHIGAN

1995 ARKANSAS

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2006 GEORGE MASON

2007 OHIO STATE

Here's the list of the proposed teams I had planned to do (25 originally but there were too many I wanted to do) and will be updated as more teams are completed.

1983 NC STATE - Done

1984 GEORGETOWN - Done

1988 KANSAS

1989 MICHIGAN

1990 UNLV

1991 DUKE

1992 DUKE

1993 NORTH CAROLINA - Done

1994 ARKANSAS - Done

1995 UCLA - Done

1996 KENTUCKY - Done

1997 ARIZONA - Done

1998 KENTUCKY

1999 UCONN - Done

2000 MICHIGAN STATE - Done

2001 DUKE - Done

2002 MARYLAND

2003 SYRACUSE - Done

2004 UCONN - Done

2005 NORTH CAROLINA - Done

2006 FLORIDA - Done

2007 FLORIDA - Done

NOTABLE FINAL FOUR PARTICPANTS

1985 ST. JOHN'S - Done

1990 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT - Done

1990 ARKANSAS

1992 MICHIGAN - Done

1993 MICHIGAN - Done

1995 ARKANSAS - Done

1995 NORTH CAROLINA

1996 MISSISSIPPI STATE - Done

1996 UMASS - Done

1996 SYRACUSE - Done

2000 APPALACHIAN STATE - Done

2000 WISCONSIN - Done

2000 NORTH CAROLINA - Done

2000 FLORIDA - Done

2003 MARQUETTE

2005 ILLINOIS - Done

2006 GEORGE MASON - Done

2006 LSU

2006 BRADLEY - Done

2007 OHIO STATE - Done

2008 PITT - Done

I'll also take requests if your specific historic team is not on here or on the list (2000 Wisconsin and North Carolina?1996 Mississppi State?1992 Cincinnati?). Comments are more than welcome...Enjoy!!

[gingerbreadmann]

Lookin' good Rob. Very Good.

(Is that Matt Ryan in your Avatar?)

[hartfordwhalers2k8]

Awesome. First request is 2004 and 1999 UConn. I would prefer 2004 UConn first.

[RollWolfpack]

My request is a 1983 NC State signature. That'd be awesome. These look great though, good work!

[hettinger_rl]

Looks Great! Could I get 2000 Florida National Runner-Up?

[ROCHitman]

Request: 1996 Syracuse National Runner Ups

[TFoA]

1996 Mississppi State?

That's my request.

[robbman21]

Thanks for all the good words guys, it at least shows me that I'm not doing these things for nothing haha. Here's the latest editions:

2005 NORTH CAROLINA

And here's the first batch of requested sigs. Enjoy!!

1999 UCONN

2004 UCONN

1983 NC STATE

Surprisingly, it was much easier for me to research the 1983 NCST unis than the 1999 UCONN unis.

[Brauny1280]

what are you planning on doing for the teams that didn't have player names on the back of their jerseys, like the '88 Jayhawks?

[hartfordwhalers2k8]

Surprisingly, it was much easier for me to research the 1983 NCST unis than the 1999 UCONN unis.

Aren't they the same as the 2004 jerseys? I thought we had the same jerseys from 1997-1998 until 2006-2007.

[Eye]

Thanks for all the good words guys, it at least shows me that I'm not doing these things for nothing haha. Here's the latest editions:

1983 NC STATE

Were the number fonts really that inconsistent for NC State back then?

[RollWolfpack]

Thanks so much for the Wolfpack sig. I really love it. And yea, the State uniform was pretty basic, much like the current uniform, except I don't think we'll be seeing a 2008 NCSU National Champions Sig...haha, oh Wolfpack, how they hurt my heart.

[lets_go_red]

2000 Wisconsin

This would be much appreciated...good work with these.

[robbman21]

what are you planning on doing for the teams that didn't have player names on the back of their jerseys, like the '88 Jayhawks?

I'll just do them as they are, and I'll likely put the player's names below the jerseys.

Surprisingly, it was much easier for me to research the 1983 NCST unis than the 1999 UCONN unis.

Aren't they the same as the 2004 jerseys? I thought we had the same jerseys from 1997-1998 until 2006-2007.

From what I found (I only researched the Final Fours and no other games played by them) UCONN had an extra stripe on the side panel of the 1999 Championship game jerseys. It was gone in 2004 but I also did not see it on any other of their jerseys of that era that I stumbled across, although I assume it WAS there and not just something done for the Final Four that year.

Thanks for all the good words guys, it at least shows me that I'm not doing these things for nothing haha. Here's the latest editions:

1983 NC STATE

Were the number fonts really that inconsistent for NC State back then?

Yeah, I'm glad that you caught that on the NC State jerseys. I made them over the 1993 UNC template, which I had to use two different fonts to match it up correctly. I had forgotten this when I made the NCST sig and so a couple of the numbers are mis-matched. I'll be correcting it when I get home from work this evening and will post if to photobucket so the sig will update automatically. Also I hope to have the next batch as well as more requests posted tonight.

[hettinger_rl]

Surprisingly, it was much easier for me to research the 1983 NCST unis than the 1999 UCONN unis.

Aren't they the same as the 2004 jerseys? I thought we had the same jerseys from 1997-1998 until 2006-2007.

"From what I found (I only researched the Final Fours and no other games played by them) UCONN had an extra stripe on the side panel of the 1999 Championship game jerseys. It was gone in 2004 but I also did not see it on any other of their jerseys of that era that I stumbled across, although I assume it WAS there and not just something done for the Final Four that year."

The 1999 UCONN jerseys are missing a stripe on the right that is there on the left.

[LMU]

Request: 1990 Loyola Marymount Elite Eight (be sure to include Gathers, although he didn't live to see the team's tourney run)

[robbman21]

Request: 1990 Loyola Marymount Elite Eight (be sure to include Gathers, although he didn't live to see the team's tourney run)

Bo Kimble leads a bunch of no-names through the tourney on pure emotion and Hank's memory. I'd LOVE to do that one!