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NCAA Tournament 2024: Takeaways from Selection Sunday as committee reveals full 68-team bracket

March Madness has officially begun in earnest now that the selection committee has revealed the 68-team bracket for the 2024 NCAA Tournament. Now it's time to study up and take pen to paper (err, keyboard to website page) and get those bracket pools going. Before you do, let's sort through the news of note as we sit now with a fresh bracket in hand. (CBS Sports)

Irwin Smallwood, Hall of Fame Greensboro sportswriter & witness to ACC history, passes away at 98

One of the most notable North Carolina sports journalists has passed away. Irwin Smallwood was a sportswriter, sports editor, and managing editor for the Greensboro News & Record across a career that spanned four decades, and was a member and past president of the NC Sports Hall of Fame. He died at 98 while watching the UNC-Duke game. (Awful Announcing)

Expanded College Football Playoff could save college sports, but not in this greedy, imbalanced era

Want to do long-term damage to college football? Shrink the number of programs that aspire to big-time ball, force some others to maybe drop a subdivision (or drop football altogether) and shrink the number of football scholarships available (or any of the sports that might see teams dropped in droves). The SEC and Big Ten already have all the advantages. (ESPN.com)

NC State's DJ Burns Had a Word for Wolfpack Fans After Winning the ACC Championship

When North Carolina State center DJ Burns was giving his acceptance speech after receiving the 2024 ACC Tournament MVP Award, Burns had the following quote to say when asked what he wanted to say to the fans. "I’m going to keep it real simple. Thank you to the ones who’ve been consistent throughout the ride, and welcome back everybody else.” (Pack Insider)

What will the future of the NCAA men's tournament look like? There's a lot at stake

There are discussions about expanding the men's NCAA basketball tournament from 68 teams to one featuring no more than 80 teams. There are also fears about what could happen to the all-comers tournament if the power leagues break away from the rest of college athletics, as football decisions continue to define the direction of major college sports. (ESPN.com)

Frustrating league tourney finishes for Johnson, Love, McKoy, Walton

Conference tournaments ended frustratingly for several former UNC Basketball players, including Puff Johnson missing a potential game-winning 3-point attempt at the buzzer. In addition, ’s No. 6 Arizona team, ’s Hawaii team and ’s No. 25 Texas Tech team all lost Friday in the semifinals of their league tournaments. (Tar Heel Tribune)

Here's the Cliche That Everyone References During The ACC Tournament

Adam Lucas, who’s covered the North Carolina Tar Heels for more than 20 years, not only remembered what his fourth grade teacher in Cary did during tournament time in the 1980s, but called her up three decades later and asked her why. “Math is not always the favorite subject of a lot of kids,” Cecelia Chapman told him for an Our State story in 2016. (North Carolina Rabbit Hole)

NCAA Tournament Bubble Watch: Cherish this

No single person is more responsible for trying to wreck what makes the NCAA Tournament great. Greg Sankey has applied nearly constant pressure to the NCAA to remake basketball’s marquee event to his conference’s liking, and he has the leverage to do so; he is one of a very few people in college sports who could decide to take his ball and go home. (Buzzer by Eamonn Brennan)

Michigan fires coach Juwan Howard after 8-24 season

Juwan Howard was fired as Michigan's basketball coach, the school announced Friday, ending a five-year run in Ann Arbor for the former Fab Five member. Michigan just completed one of its worst seasons in 60 years, finishing last in the Big Ten for the first time since 1967. The Wolverines lost their final nine games to finish 8-24 overall and 3-17 in the league. (ESPN.com)

50 Years Later, NC State-Maryland ACC Tourney Final Masterpiece Remains Poignant for Those Involved

The level of the game was, by acclimation of those in the ACC, unparalleled. North Carolina State 103, Maryland 100, in overtime of an ACC tournament final played in a smoke-filled Greensboro Coliseum, during the days before multiple NCAA bids for the same conference, was declared by many to be the greatest men’s college basketball game ever played. (Sports Illustrated)
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