Charles Barkley echoes Coach K’s opposition to North Carolina bathroom bill

The Blue Devils became the first five seed to win the ACC tournament, which draws a parallel with the 2010-11 UConn Huskies run to win the championship.

So what’s in store in 2017? “To be able to get those wins, keep racking up wins and NCAA Tournament appearances, it’s just a great job that our team and this school’s legacy is able to do”.

The Tar Heels have talked all season about getting back to the NCAA title game after losing to Villanova on a last-second 3-pointer in their championship matchup previous year.

Bilas agrees the 3-pointer has improved the quality of the game.

Arizona is my pick to win the national championship because they are the most complete team in the country.

On the season Duke is 13-6 SU, 9-9-1 ATS versus teams that made the NCAA tournament.

Walker’s near-parental status is based on his NCAA Tournament experiences.

The NCAA Tournament, a spring fixture in basketball-crazed North Carolina, is tipping off in SC on Friday.

North Carolina. So good, even a loss to rival Duke in the ACC Tournament wasn’t enough to knock them down from a No. 1 seed.

Speaking of Florida, the Gators are capable of winning a pair of games in the tournament after falling to Vanderbilt in the quarterfinals of the Southeastern Conference Tournament last weekend in Nashville. Louisville is 16-to-1, and OR is 20-to-1. Middle Tennessee is a possible 12-5 upset over Minnesota. Here’s a glance of what I think will transpire in the next three weeks. If the Wildcats win its first round matchup against Northern Kentucky, a potential second round matchup everyone would like to see (including the brass of CBS) will be the criminally under-seeded No. 10 Wichita State versus Kentucky.

Probably the best matchup of the Sweet 16 will be No. 2 Kentucky versus No. 3 UCLA. “Anything can happen in the NCAA Tournament”. Bill Self is making his 19th consecutive appearance – 14th with Big 12 champion Kansas (half of the Jayhawks’ record 28 consecutive NCAA appearances) after trips with Tulsa and IL.

They swept both titles this year, going 16-2 in the SWAC.

As much as Krzyzewski and Williams would prefer to be playing their NCAA openers closer to home, both agreed that the change in venue would have little effect on their teams’ play. UNC leads the nation in rebound margin at 12.7 per game, led by senior forward Kennedy Meeks’ 9.1 rebounds per game.

The Wildcats are in their fourth season with coach Chris Collins, the son of former National Basketball Association coach Doug Collins.

The Gators lost in the second round in 2013, Walker’s freshman season, before going to the Final 4 in 2014.

CBS’ Seth Davis went on and on about how he expected the Wolf Pack to make the Sweet 16, and the 12-5 upset happens almost every year.

This is not the first time Coach K has spoken out against HB2.

“At that time, I was pretty broken-hearted”, said Brown, now Troy’s football coach.

Bam Adebayo gives Kentucky a big presence on the inside, but outside of those three players, the Wildcats are a team full of role players.

Something tells me maybe, just maybe, in a year I’m finally fulfilling a bucket-list item and attending my first NCAA tourney game, they’ll avoid the pitfalls and come out on the other side in Phoenix. And they have won nine straight games. The Trojans knocked off regular-season champion Texas State in the final, leading by one point with less than 2 minutes remaining before pulling off a 59-53 victory.

Henderson is now Princeton’s coach, and the Ivy League champions are in their first NCAA since 2011, as a 12th seed that will play Notre Dame.