Quite simply, this is not the year of the Cinderella squad. The silver lining: The second-weekend matchups are loaded.

The Wildcats shot a blistering 12-of-24 from three-point range in both of those earlier meetings, coming away with a 78-73 win on Jan. 28 and a 75-64 victory on Feb. 11 to hand the Volunteers two of their seven losses.

The Sweet 16 begins tonight as the men’s NCAA college basketball tournament enters its second week. • Four games on tap: The action gets started at 7:09 p.m. ET when Alabama faces BYU. The other games are Florida-Maryland at 7:39 p.

Reniya Kelly grew up in Hoover, Alabama, and led her high school team to three state titles at Legacy Arena in Birmingham. That’s where Carolina will face Duke in the Sweet 16.

Getting buckets is crucial to lifting your team into the Elite Eight. Here are the highest-scorers in men's Sweet 16 history.

A season steeped with promise ended in early heartbreak for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, who suffered a 71-62 upset loss to TCU on Saturday in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.

It’s been three long days, but the men’s NCAA tournament returns Thursday with 16 teams just two wins away from the Final Four.

Villanova fired Kyle Neptune, and the Wildcats waited quite some time while the rest of the coaching market swirled. Villanova ended the year with a 19-14 overall record; the Wildcats have missed the NCAA Tournament three straight years.

Since N.C. State and LSU met in the Bahamas in November, the Wolfpack and Tigers have combined to win 44 of 52 games and have evolved considerably.