Chris Bosh on Johni Broome, Cooper Flagg and the state of college basketball

Twenty-one years later, Chris Bosh still has regrets. Just one year after graduating from Georgia Tech, the Yellow Jackets went all the way to the national championship, while Bosh, then a rookie for the Toronto Raptors, could only watch in support. 

That 2004 title game between Georgia Tech and UConn took place in San Antonio, Texas. Bosh finds himself back in that city, working with AT&T at its Fan Fest ahead of the 2025 Final Four. 

So much has changed with college basketball since Bosh played, and yet there are still a handful of similarities. Auburn has a big man in Johni Broome whose game resembles Bosh's. Duke has a trio of one-and-done freshmen that are experiencing the pressure Bosh faced in his one season at Georgia Tech, and Houston's head coach, Kelvin Sampson, recruited Bosh to come play for him at Oklahoma. 

Bosh touched on those storylines in his interview with FOX Sports ahead of Saturday's Final Four games:

Q: How are things in San Antonio? What are you doing at the Final Four, and what's your specific role with AT&T?

Bosh: I'm here doing an event with AT&T and with the NBA Hall of Fame, too. The Hall of Fame always announces the Hall of Famers-to-be for the upcoming class during the Final Four weekend. [AT&T has] always been involved with basketball. It's a pretty cool installation out here. It's the Fan Fest at the Convention Center in San Antonio. There are baskets out here. Kids can play games. It seems to be like one of those cool places where you can hang out, and if you play basketball, you're going to be overloaded.

Q: When you think about the Final Four and you look back at your college career, what do you think about?

Bosh: It was all too brief. Funny story: I got drafted in 2003 and, in