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NC Governor Declares State as ‘Center of the College Basketball Universe’

With the Tar Heels and Blue Devils set to face-off in the Final Four, governor Roy Cooper signed a proclamation, and a few states may want a word.

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SI:AM | The 2022 World Cup Field Is Almost Set, USMNT-Included

Here’s where things stand before the tournament kicks off in Qatar in November.

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NCAA Final Four In New Orleans: An Insider's Guide To Dining, Partying And More

When the announcement went out that New Orleans was the site of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament's Final Four April 1-3, cheers could be heard around fandom. The city is a favorite because it not only has great food and amazing nightlife, it is walkable. That makes a difference.

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Forty Years Ago an HBCU Played in the First Women’s Final Four. Today the Program Is Gone.

The story of Cheyney, and coach C. Vivian Stringer, is largely lost to history.

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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.

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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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Bunkers, dread and drinking: The unspeakable anxiety of Duke-UNC in the Final Four

RALEIGH, N.C. — In the span of about an hour on Tuesday, in buildings about 10 miles apart, in rooms connected to the home courts where their basketball teams play, Hubert Davis and Mike Krzyzewski attempted to make the same point — that their players must somehow find a way…

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Power Ranking the Teams in the Women’s Final Four

Power ranking the women’s final four teamsThe start of the women’s Final Four is less than 48 hours away. Three No. 1 seeds and one No. 2 seed have made it to Minneapolis, as some of the sport’s preeminent powers will now face off for a national championship. How do…

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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…

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Country Music Superstar Cancels Concert To Watch Duke Vs. UNC

Musicians cancel tour dates for various reasons including illness, death in the family, issues with venues or a worldwide pandemic. Have you ever heard of a musician canceling a tour date to attend a Final Four basketball game?

Benzinga

Dawn Staley, Aliyah Boston take home Coach of the Year and Player of the Year ahead of Friday’s Final Four

Dawn Staley and Aliyah Boston are big winners on Wednsday!

USA Today Sports Media Group

Hubert Davis Repeated a Dean Smith Inspiration Tactic From His Playing Days

In his first year at the helm of the North Carolina program, Davis started the journey to the Final Four with the same approach as his former coach.

Sports Illustrated

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

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Luke DeCock: Amid coaching transitions, Duke-UNC Final Four meeting could change rivalry forever

The photo was taken in a back hallway of the Smith Center, out of public view, two generations of coaches standing together. Who could have imagined, when Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams and Hubert Davis and Jon Scheyer all posed before the first Duke-Carolina game in February, that it could…

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Women’s Final Four: Best bets, odds and picks for March Madness 2022

Breaking down the NCAAW Final Four.

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Dawn Staley wins two big Coach of the Year awards for South Carolina’s dominant season

MINNEAPOLIS — Days after her South Carolina Gamecocks swept to a fourth Final Four, North Philadelphia’s Dawn Staley swept a pair of major coaching honors: the Naismith and U.S. Basketball Writers’ women’s Coach of the Year awards.

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Dawn Staley Named Naismith Women’s Coach of the Year for Second Time

She has led South Carolina to four Final Fours in the last seven years.

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After last year’s outcry, women get a fairer slice of March Madness

Oregon's Sedona Prince was so disturbed about the disparities between the weight-room setups at the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments last year, she took to social media to vent.

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Country Star Eric Church Cancels His Saturday Concert to Watch UNC-Duke Final Four

For the first time in NCAA tournament history, the Tobacco Road rivals will face off, and it'll be in the Final Four.

Roll Call

Ahead of the Final Four, Democrats weigh college athletes’ struggles

Democrats in the House and Senate highlighted inequities facing women's sports and how some athletes go hungry while coaches make millions.

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Catching our Collective Breath Before the Final Fours

ICYMI: The biggest story for each Final Four teamWith our writers traveling to the men’s and women’s Final Fours in New Orleans and Minneapolis, respectively, today’s edition of the Morning Madness newsletter is coming a bit later. And while we all get ready for a weekend full of basketball, take…

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Winners Club: Get Your Fantasy Baseball Team Ready

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

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JJ Redick Says His ‘Inferiority’ Dig At North Carolina Was a Joke

The Blue Devils great-turned-ESPN analyst turned some heads ahead of Saturday’s Final Four showdown between the hated rivals.

Sports Illustrated

Where Are the Doubters Now? Coach Hubert Davis at the Heart of Tar Heels’ Tourney Run

With determination and an unwavering positivity, the first-year head coach has silenced his critics as North Carolina prepares to play rival Duke in the national semifinals.

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.

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