How NCAA Tournament South Region No. 2 seed Kentucky (32-5) and No. 1 North Carolina (30-7) match up at each position — with a game prediction:
Small forward
u25aa Kentucky’s Malik Monk (20.1 ppg) was the talk of college basketball after he torched North Carolina for 47 points (18-of-28 field goals, 8-of-12 three-pointers) in UK’s 103-100 win over UNC on Dec. 17 in Las Vegas. After the 6-foot-3, 200-pound freshman from Lepanto, Ark., struggled with his shot in both the SEC tourney (12-of-33 field goals, 3-of-11 treys) and UK’s first two games of the NCAAs (6-of-21, 2-of-11), Monk seemed to get back in rhythm (8-of-17, 4-of-9 treys) in Kentucky’s 86-75 round-of-16 win over UCLA.