claim: The 2003 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament featured the top tier of intercollegiate players.
evidence: Carl Johann von Konigsmarck -LRB- 15 May 1659 -- 28 August 1686 -RRB- was a Swedish count of Brandenburgian extraction and a soldier .. Swedish. Sweden. count. count. Brandenburgian. Margraviate of Brandenburg. soldier. soldier. Konigsmarck was born in Nyborg was born at Stade , as the second son of Count Conrad Christoph von Konigsmarck and his wife Countess Maria Christina von Wrangel -LRB- 1628-1691 -RRB- .. Nyborg. Nyborg. Conrad Christoph von Konigsmarck. Conrad Christoph von Konigsmarck. He was the grandson of two Field Marshalls ; Hermann von Wrangel and Hans Christoff von Konigsmarck .. Hermann von Wrangel. Hermann von Wrangel. Hans Christoff von Konigsmarck. Hans Christoff von Konigsmarck. His sister Maria Aurora von Konigsmarck was later mistress to Augustus II the Strong of Poland , with whom she had the son Maurice de Saxe , the brilliant French military commander .. Maria Aurora von Konigsmarck. Maria Aurora von Konigsmarck. mistress. Mistress ( lover ). Augustus II the Strong. Augustus II the Strong. Poland. Poland. Maurice de Saxe. Maurice de Saxe. French. France. His other sister Amalia Wilhelmina was a noted dilettante artist .. Amalia Wilhelmina. Amalia Wilhelmina Konigsmarck. His brother Philip Christoph von Konigsmarck died under mysterious circumstances after starting an affair with Sophia Dorothea of Celle , the daughter of George William , Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg .. Philip Christoph von Konigsmarck. Philip Christoph von Konigsmarck. Sophia Dorothea of Celle. Sophia Dorothea of Celle. Karl Johann von Konigsmarck is alleged to have hired three assassins to kill Thomas Thynne -- husband of heiress Elizabeth Seymour , Duchess of Somerset , whom Konigsmarck had been wooing -- on 12 February 1681 .. Thomas Thynne. Thomas Thynne ( died 1682 ). The assassins were hanged on 10 March 1682 though their alleged hirer was acquitted , but banished .. After leaving England he joined the army of his uncle Otto Wilhelm von Konigsmarck in Greece .. He died of wounds contracted during the Morean War in Nauplion .. Morean War. Morean War. Nauplion. Nauplion