What is the single most intriguing Sweet 16 game?
It’s not the only meeting of brand names, but No. 1 North Carolina against No. 4 Notre Dame is the one that looks most tempting. It’s certainly the only one pitting two teams with multiple national championships. The Fighting Irish were the last team to deny the Tar Heels a national championship, eliminating them in the third round in Chapel Hill three years ago. And although some late stumbles in a Big East Conference that might be better than previously thought, considering it boasts four of the remaining 16 teams, cost the Fighting Irish in seeding, this is still a team that spent part of the season in the top five. “We could say the bracketologists screwed up; that’s one man’s opinion,” North Carolina coach Anson Dorrance said in his postgame comments after a second-round win against James Madison. “Or we could say that the game is getting better. And it is getting better; there are more competitive teams out there. Notre Dame is certainly one of them. They’re a team that’s usually
