CHAPEL HILL
When the NCAA tournament field was announced a week ago, on Selection Sunday, you could have made the argument – and I did – that North Carolina, the top seed in the East Region, had the most difficult path of any No. 1 seed to reach the Final Four.
There was the potential game against Kentucky, the No. 4 seed, in the regional semifinals. Xavier, the No. 2 seed, and West Virginia, the No. 3, were lurking in the bottom half of the bracket. And then, one week later, there were none of those teams.