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Duke-UNC and Kansas-Villanova make up a star-studded slate in New Orleans.

CHICAGO — The Kansas Jayhawks are headed back to the Final Four for the first time since 2018.

Everything you need to know as Ohio State prepares to take on Villanova for a chance to go to the Sweet 16.

PITTSBURGH — Villanova point guard Colin Gillespie took the full-impact charge from his Delaware counterpart, Jameer Nelson Jr., and skidded backwards, right off the court. Gillespie glanced up … the scoreboard inside PPG Paints Arena replayed his skid larger than life.

NEW YORK — It wasn’t his night, until Collin Gillespie decided it was.

NEW YORK — Here it was, the point of Connecticut rejoining the Big East Conference, a packed Madison Square Garden for a late Friday night game in March … “Let’s go Huskies” filling the Garden air. UConn fans, a huge part of the 19,812 crowd inside, up on their feet…

Jay Wright was two lackluster years into his tenure at Villanova in May 2003, so far from being considered the best coach in college basketball that the assertion would have seemed laughable, certainly not a credible candidate for the job that had just become available in his hometown.

Is it fair? That’s a central question involving Villanova these days on all sorts of basketball fronts. Let’s offer some answers and some opinions. Warning: ‘Nova fans won’t like all the answers or opinions.

UConn -2.5 bettors were sooo close.