Big-time North Carolina-Kansas matchup may be decided by big-time bigs

Posted Apr 4, 2022
So of course the reduction of this quartet to a couple presents to us a championship game through which the very origin of the sport runs in a direct line: from the inventor of the game, James Naismith, who brought the product of his genius to the Kansas plains just seven years after its founding and became the school’s first coach, to Dean Smith. (Sporting News)

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