may differ, but their success is similar: Whoever wins Saturday will reach the Final Four for the sixth time.

Williams is already fourth on the career list with 46 NCAA tournament victories. Pitino has a slightly higher tournament winning percentage at .750 and is the only coach to take three schools to the Final Four: Providence (once), Kentucky (three times) and Louisville (once).

Their credentials create an argument that can be debated in New York bars or on Carolina front porches for hours, a Magic-or-Bird type debate.

And it makes Williams believe that first game between the coaches won't compare to the latest one.

"As many games as Rick and I have coached," Williams said, "it's way, way down the list."Thirty-five
years before the town of Denison was established in 1872,
settlers arrived in the rich prairies south of the Red River.

The Red River had been a 'line' over which the French and Spanish had
fought in their claims to the New World. The Red River was a
highway for French traders dealing with Caddo Indians. Posts existed
along the river which aggravated the quarrel between Spain and France.
Trappers had paddled the river with lucrative bounties of
pelts. But the are remained Indian Territory.

Daniel Dugan arrived in what is now Grayson County, Texas in April 1836
followed by other settlers. Indians had used a ford along
the Red River. This site was chosen by Col. Holland Coffee of
Arkansas to establish a trading post on the Texas side of the river.
Another trading post was set up by