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Kentucky coach John Calipari wasn't too happy when he found out his team was a No. 4 seed in the East Region. If the Wildcats play up to their potential, it might not matter where the NCAA Tournament selection committee put them. It was just two years ago that Kentucky, as an eighth seed, rolled all the way to the national title game before losing to Connecticut. Continue to Article

March 16, 2016 8:36:pm EST

Play Tourney Pick'em  |  Fill out your bracket   |  Print it   |  Celebrity Challenge Odds are by Friday night there will be no perfect brackets left in Yahoo Sports Tourney Pick 'Em. And that's not just because this year's tournament is so wide open. In the 17 years Yahoo Sports has hosted a bracket challenge, only once has anyone finished the first round unscathed. Brad Binder did it in 2014 when he (briefly) flirted with the chance to win a billion dollars. So take some solace in that come Thursday when your bracket is in tatters, because you won't be alone, especially this year. Consider this: The favorite to win the tournament, according to Yahoo Sports users, is Kansas, yet only 30 percent picked the Jayhawks to win it all. Final Four picks? Not even a quarter of users think No. 1 seed Oregon will advance to Houston, while less than 20 percent are choosing Virginia, another No. 1 seed, to advance that far. Chalk that up to reputation, just as you can for Kentucky coming in as the fourth favorite among users despite being a No. 4 seed. (Yeah, yeah, John Calipari thinks the Wildcats got no respect .) Here's a prediction: your bracket that's busted Thursday when, say, Duke is bounced in the first game of the tourney, could be a winner come April 4 when Texas A&M (picked by less than 1 percent of Yahoo Sports users) wins it all. Continue to Article

March 16, 2016 7:02:pm EST

The following is a version of the game story transmitted by The Associated Press from the 1966 NCAA championship game between Kentucky and Texas Western. Much was made later of how Texas Western's all-black starting lineup beat the all-white Wildcats, but the game story itself was all about basketball. In one of the stories in the days that followed, Texas Western coach Don Haskins marveled that he had a chance to match wits with Kentucky's legendary Adolph Rupp. Continue to Article

March 16, 2016 4:39:pm EST