Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in men’s college basketball, where spitting on fans is a crime in some locales:
IT’S NEVER TOO EARLY TO PANIC
Selection Sunday is less than five weeks away, which makes this a good time to check in on some notable programs that are loitering around the NCAA tournament bubble or jeopardizing their seeding as we head toward the season’s stretch run. Fans, go ahead and start your anxiety engines:
North Carolina (1). Status: 16–7 overall, 8–4 in the ACC, No. 42 NCAA NET ranking, No.