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LOS ANGELES — UCLA and USC won’t be making the trip to Houston, but the Final Four won’t be short on intrigue. Can the hometown Cougars cut down the nets for the first time in school history? Can Alabama and the murder investigation hovering over this year’s tournament be removed…

A guide to the cant-miss round of 64 games.

Will this be Alabama’s year to cut down the nets? Who is this season’s Cinderella team? Our writers break down the bracket for the NCAA tournament

LOS ANGELES — He's the one everybody sees and few remember, a nearly invisible piece of history standing 6 feet 9.

It’s the worst-case scenario. For the second straight year, Kentucky suffers a first-round knockout in the NCAA Tournament. Last year, Saint Peter’s. This year, Bryce Hopkins.

LOS ANGELES — Winning in the Big Dance requires being able to move to every song that's playing.

Purdue, seeded first in the East Region, earned three first-place votes and was third in the AP poll after the regular-season Big Ten champion won its conference tournament, too.

As a mathematician and the head of Centre College’s sports analytics initiative, Jeff Heath brings a number cruncher’s approach to correctly predicting NCAA Tournament games.

Get all my bracket picks here, and who knows? You might even thank me later.

It is glamorously called, "The Road to the Final Four," but on the day UCLA received its coordinates, it was surely struck with a gritty realization.

The Big Dance is finally here—check out how things stack up in the wild, wild West.