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Bilas: Who will make the Final Four? Let's pick every game in the men's tournament
The "More Than Five-Minute" Bracket -- from the (self-described) most powerful and influential basketball brain on planet Earth.

Lunardi: The one big thing the selection committee got wrong
The committee's decision to include both Texas and North Carolina has stumped our resident Bracketologist.

MARCH MADNESS HAS ARRIVED!
It's bracket time: Make your picks for the men's tournament
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Your guide to all 68 teams in the men’s NCAA tournament
The bracket is set. Here's everything you need to know about the competitors for this year's national title.

TOP HEADLINES

HOW DUKE BUILT A CONTENDER
You've signed a one-of-a-kind freshman in Cooper Flagg. Now what? Here's how Duke built a contender around its prized recruit
In an era when teams are incentivized to build around experience, the Blue Devils built a contender with youth.

Flagg injury impact: Duke isn't 'Final Four good' without him, more reactions
How could Cooper Flagg's and Maliq Brown's potential absences impact the Blue Devils?


REACTING TO TAR HEELS MAKING TOURNEY
Stephen A. calls UNC making the tournament 'disgraceful'

Seth Greenberg: UNC should not be in the tournament

SELECTION SUNDAY!
Instant men's bracket: Jeff Borzello predicts every March Madness game
With the men's NCAA tournament field set, Borzello picks every round from the First Four through Final Four.


IT'S BEEN A WHILE
'Say My Name' leads trends since last time Kansas wasn't a top-four seed in March Madness
The Kansas Jayhawks enter the NCAA Tournament seeded outside of the top-four for the first time since 2000.

TOURNAMENT TALK
'College GameDay' crew makes its Final Four picks

Calipari's Arkansas and Pitino's St. John's facing off would be drama in West

Tom Izzo, the new world of college basketball and the pursuit of one more title

'LARGER IS BETTER'
Rick Pitino suggests merging Big East with ACC

Top Headlines
- Duke stays No. 1 in men's AP Top 25; Auburn at 4
- Iona fires coach Anderson after just two seasons
- Auburn, Duke top men's NCAA field; SEC gets 14
- 3-seed Iowa State loses star Gilbert for tourney
- Scheyer: Goal for Flagg to play in Friday opener
- Florida tops Tennessee for SEC tournament title
- Donaldson stars again, leads U-M to Big Ten title
- VCU holds off George Mason to win A-10 title
- Coaching tracker: Neptune out at Nova
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