HOUSTON — Villanova and North Carolina will share a floor Monday night, but on the sport's grander stage, they play very different roles. One school needs titles and the other school wants them, and you don't need me to tell you which is which.
North Carolina may be the premier program in the sport. When you think of the Tar Heels, you think about Michael Jordan and Dean Smith and NBA prospects coming off the assembly line. This would be North Carolina's sixth national championship, and every time, the Tar Heels entered the tournament as a No. 1 seed (except for in 1957, when there were no seeds, but UNC was undefeated that year).