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Kansas into title game after easy win vs. Villanova

David McCormack scored 25 points and Ochai Agbaji added 21 for the Jayhawks

Chicago Sun-Times

Kansas Defeats Villanova to Advance to National Title Game, Will Face Winner of UNC-Duke

The Jayhawks eliminated the Wildcats in New Orleans on Saturday night.

Sports Illustrated

Here’s the Tipoff Time for Duke vs. UNC in the Final Four Saturday Night

The Blue Devils and Tar Heels will tip off in just a half hour.

Sports Illustrated

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Jay Wright Is ‘Proud’ That Villanova Is Now in the Blueblood Conversation

The Wildcats join three traditional blueblood schools in this year’s men’s Final Four.

Sports Illustrated

Polling Place: Voters make their Final Four picks, share their feelings about Duke’s Coach K

Would you like to see Mike Krzyzewski win on his way out the door and into retirement?

Chicago Sun-Times

Duke’s (and Chicago’s) Mike Krzyzewski is putting the ‘final’ in Final Four

He isn’t loved by everyone outside of the Duke bubble, but his absence from the college game will leave a void. And what an epic way to end a career.

Chicago Sun-Times

Some NCAA bettors call them the Carolina Tar Steals

Bet on it: Ardent fans who placed futures wagers on skidding UNC in February stand ready to cash in big

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One Key Stat for Each Men’s Final Four Team

Final Four By the NumbersAt long last, the Final Four has arrived. All week we have digested the endless angles of a delicious Duke-UNC matchup, appreciated Kansas’s lights-out performance that has the Jayhawks as the last No. 1 seed standing, and played with Villanova’s lineup to see how the ...

Sports Illustrated

‘If you’re coming back, I’m coming back’: Inside the night that put Villanova on track for another Final Four

NEW ORLEANS — The Villanova athletic department created sharp graphics last April for Jermaine Samuels and Collin Gillespie to blast on social media when they each announced they would be returning for a fifth-season.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Vahe Gregorian: 'Got to cut down nets': Despite Kansas' rich history, Bill Self knows it's behind others

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self never has been one to sulk. That would be "soft," after all, a concept he holds in contempt.

Tribune News Service

Former Kansas star Joel Embiid: ‘I don’t like Villanova this weekend’

DETROIT — No one in the Philadelphia area, including diehard Villanova fans, should be surprised or upset with Joel Embiid’s rooting interest in the Final Four.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Duke–North Carolina Semifinal Is a Hoops Dream (And One Team’s Nightmare)

The stakes have never been this high for these bitter rivals … but 31 years ago, they almost were even bigger.

Sports Illustrated

A group of New Yorkers led North Carolina to ‘57 NCAA title over Wilt Chamberlain, Kansas

NEW YORK — Given the breadth of basketball talent to come out of New York City, the most from anywhere since James Naismith repurposed his peach baskets, it is, in many ways, a travesty that universities within the five boroughs have just one NCAA title.

Tribune News Service

The Biggest Question for Each Team Heading Into the Men’s Final Four

What could prove to be their downfall?The Final Four is just two days away! With four of the sport’s biggest brands convening in New Orleans and story lines galore around these outstanding matchups, it’s hard to wait until Saturday evening. Here are four big questions heading into those two games…

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Scott Fowler: Jay Bilas has thoughts on how much Duke-UNC in the Final Four really matters

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jay Bilas is a former Duke player, a current Charlotte resident and ESPN’s leading college basketball voice.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Mike Sielski: Villanova’s era of excellence is 20 years in the making. Just ask Allan Ray. Or follow him on Twitter.

PHILADELPHIA — Come Saturday night, Allan Ray will grab his red marble composition book and his black-ink Sharpie pen, get comfy on the living room couch in his Atlanta home, and fire up his television and his Twitter account for his favorite pastime. Ray was a member of Jay Wright’s…

Tribune News Service

Vahe Gregorian: 'Win the crowd': How Remy Martin's late-season revival was vital to Kansas' Final Four run

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In a certain sense, anyway, University of Kansas guard Remy Martin was born about two years too soon in 1998.

Tribune News Service

John Clay: With Final Four approaching, just who qualifies as an actual basketball blue blood?

LEXINGTON, Ky. — You’ve probably read the story line. Saturday’s Final Four is full of basketball blue bloods. Duke and North Carolina meet in one national semifinal. Kansas plays Villanova in the other. Blue bloods all.

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Kansas Jayhawks arrive in New Orleans with ‘some Cajun food’ on the immediate agenda

NEW ORLEANS — Kansas’ men’s basketball players and coaches filed off a charter bus — one decorated with both a Jayhawk and NCAA logo — in front of the JW Marriott in the heart of the Big Easy to the applause of hotel employees and fans Wednesday afternoon, including one…

The Independent UK

March Madness paying off for players under mishmash of rules

This week, Kansas, Villanova, North Carolina and Duke will play in the first Final Four to take place under the new world of “name, image and likeness” endorsements in college sports

Sports Illustrated

Winners Club: Get Your Fantasy Baseball Team Ready

Plus, Final Four breakdowns, NBA check in and NFL futures.

Tribune News Service

John Clay: The most important part of Kentucky's 2022-23 basketball season has already begun

LEXINGTON, Ky. — As the Final Four in New Orleans this weekend closes out the 2021-22 college basketball season, the most important part of next season has already begun. It's transfer portal season.

Tribune News Service

Luke DeCock: Why the Duke-UNC Final Four game is North Carolina’s biggest sporting event ever

RALEIGH, N.C. — This is the Big One, some 70 years in the making, the unthinkable and the unimaginable.

Sports Illustrated

SI99 Stars Shine in McDonald's All American Game

Duke's Dereck Lively, Arkansas' Nick Smith Jr., others could lead teams to a deep run next March.

Tribune News Service

Duke's journey to Final Four in Coach K’s final season nothing short of ‘magical’

DURHAM, N.C. — As Nina King stood on the edge of Chase Center’s court in San Francisco on Saturday night, amid Duke’s celebrating players and families and her fellow administrators, one word entered her mind.

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