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North Carolina also has played some of its best basketball recently with the exception of about a handful of minutes against No. 5 seed Saint Mary's may have been one of the team's best performances of the month, though the result also included an injury for Jaime Jaquez that will be monitored closely leading up and during the game. UCLA's 16-point win in the second round against No. 2 in the preseason AP Top 25 poll, and after some midseason injuries and a COVID pause disrupted the team's rhythm Mick Cronin's group course corrected and has won 10 of its last 12 games. The game itself shapes up to be a fascinating matchup between a UCLA team that expected to be here and a North Carolina team that has been playing its best basketball over the last month.

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Overall, North Carolina is 10-3 in the series riding a streak of five straight wins. But for all the NCAA Tournament wins and Sweet 16 appearances between these two blue bloods they have only met in the tournament twice: UCLA beat North Carolina in the national championship game in 1968 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, then Lew Alcindor, had 34 points and 16 rebounds in the win - and then the Tar Heels bounced the Bruins from the second round in 1989, a game that featured a five-minute appearance from then-future and now-current Tar Heels coach Hubert Davis. 8 seed North Carolina in the late game from Philadelphia in the East Regional.

Two of the top-three programs in total number of Sweet 16 appearances will take the floor against each other when No. But any talk of cutting nets has to start with beating the Friars, the highest-ranked seed left in the region. 6 seed were all eliminated from the Midwest Region in the first two rounds. The Jayhawks' national title odds have improved after the No. 1 seed Kansas, the lone top seed in action on Friday, facing No. 15 seed runs - Florida Gulf Coast in 2013 and Oral Roberts in 2021 - ended in the Sweet 16, but the Jersey City-based Peacocks are hoping the proximity to East Region action in Philadelphia might be a boost against a daunting Sweet 16 opponent in No. The night gets started with one of the tournament's biggest story's in Saint Peter's, just the third No. The East Regionals and Midwest Regionals take center stage on Friday, a night that features a historic Cinderella story and the promise of at least one double-digit seed punching a ticket to the Elite Eight. Thursday's scores and results set the regional finals in the South (Houston vs. By the end of Friday we'll have all eight teams who are headed to the regional finals.

We have four teams already in the Elite Eight field for the 2022 NCAA Tournament.

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