The Latest Breaking News from New Orleans

North Dakota State prospect Christian Watson has the tools to be an ideal wide receiver fit for the Saints in the 2022 NFL draft, via @RossJacksonNOLA:

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…

NEW ORLEANS — It was a mostly quiet and gray Wednesday afternoon along Bourbon Street, the calm before the storm. No crowds packing the street between the sidewalks, at least not yet. No lines to get into the music joints or the bars, and plenty of room in the places…

NEW ORLEANS — There was never anything inevitable about the collision course that Duke and North Carolina find themselves on, not this season at least. Historically, certainly the odds were that two programs of such longstanding and explosive success would cross paths at some point. If not now, someday.

The class of 2022 will be announced at the men's Final Four in New Orleans on April 2.

Ahead of Saturday’s highly-anticipated matchup with Duke, Bacot revealed what’s been fueling his team’s surprise run to New Orleans.

Tyrann Mathieu says 'it would be great' to represent his state and city with the New Orleans Saints in WAFB interview, via @DillySanders:

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.

The Saints haven't addressed WR in free agency, but they're well-equipped to draft and develop an immediate playmaker after hiring new coaches, via @RossJacksonNOLA:

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 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…