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PALM HARBOR, Fla. — The picture is haphazardly staged, and a bit out of focus. Which is to say, it could have been taken by any parent in any rec sports league in any gym in America.

What makes this Northwestern team better equipped to go a step further and do what the team in 2017 failed to by advancing to the Sweet 16?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — No Furman here. No Princeton here. No late craziness or shocking weirdness or shining momentousness here.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The only nervous moments came several hours before tipoff.

With the cool kids in California bolting the Pac-12 Conference, the CU Buffs need a new buddy to keep the conference relevant and solvent.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Somewhere, Pete Carril is working over a stale cigar, nodding with pride and approval.

Elvin Hayes tried. So did the Phi Slama Jama crew. Now, Kelvin Sampson’s Cougars are the ones looking to break Houston’s futility at the Big Dance.

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…

Whether the economy slumps this year or not, California shouldn’t feel as much pain as the rest of the country.

Not surprisingly, low LSAT scores are strongly correlated with low bar passage rates.

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