Author: Dan Wolken, USA TODAY

In a college basketball season that has been defined by parity, we are 40 minutes away from UConn ramping through a bracket without a hint of drama.

Could Miami basketball player Norchad Omier move over to football after the team’s Final Four in same way one did and played in the NFL?

It’s challenging enough to be playing the NCAA men’s tournament. For Connecticut center Adama Sanogo he is also managing fasting during Ramadan.

Because FAU is great and clearly belongs in the Final Four, it hasn’t registered what a massive upset it is that FAU has this team in the first place.

Texas fell one win short of the Final Final with interim coach Rodney Terry. The Longhorns face a tough decision on whether to keep Terry permanently.

After years in the wilderness, UConn is back in the men’s Final Four and has the look of a team that is going to bring home the national championship.

Drew Timme may be one win short of getting the kind of recognition that Gonzaga coach Mark Few believes he deserves. He’ll get his chance Saturday.

All four No. 1 seeds are out before the Elite Eight in the NCAA men’s tournament, proving parity is ruling and creating real-life March Madness.

Julian Strawther’s late 3-pointer lifted Gonzaga past UCLA and into the Elite Eight, another epic chapter in the teams’ March Madness rivalry.