If the ACC is now in underdog role

Rupp and Dean Smith is going on? In fact, the Big XII and the Big Ten also have three, the Big East has two, the SEC is 7-2 in the tourney, and the ACC is down to North Carolina and nobody else. Well, in defense of the ACC, I think it’s just one of those things. How else would you describe it? Do you honestly believe the SEC is three times better than the ACC? Of course not.

sent No. 2 seed home. who hasn’t had a team in the Sweet 16 since 1972, ousted perennial power and North Carolina barely got by Arkansas. So who’s going to win it all? I still pick the lone remaining ACC team.

Basketball quickies

I felt sorry for Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall, whose wife, Lynn Marshall was escorted out Bankers Life Fieldhouse arena Sunday following the Shockers’ loss. She is reported to have been “spewing vulgarities” at Wichita State’s opponent, Kentucky. Pictures show the missus seemingly out of control. … LSU has hired Virginia Commonwealth basketball coach Will Wade while N.C. State hired former UNC-Wilmington coach Kevin Keatts to replace Mark Gottfried, who was fired during the season. VCU wasted no time by hiring Rice’s Mike Rhoades.… The first week of this year’s March Madness was the most watched on TV in 24 years. … The team with the most difficult path to the NCAA title seems to be UCLA, who, if the seeds hold, must play Kentucky, North Carolina and Kansas to reach the finals. … Former Kansas, UCLA, SMU, and NBA coach Larry Brown, 76, is talking to Long Island University, Brooklyn about its head coaching vacancy. … Bad news for fans as guns will now be allowed at sporting events. Mike Rhoades