It’s very rare that a team that’s an eight seed will not be the crowd’s favorite going into a game to advance to the Final Four, but today North Carolina is going to face just that. The reason? The Tar Heels have drawn the country’s favorite underdog school in St. Peter’s as the Peacocks have made a magical run of their own as the fifteen seed.
What’s funny is that while on paper the game is going to be an eight versus a fifteen, both teams absolutely earned their way to this Regional Championship game. Between them, they have taken out all top four seeds (the Tar Heels knocked off one seed Baylor and four seed UCLA, while the Peacocks tripped up two seed Kentucky and three seed Purdue).