LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — It's hard to call any series between basketball programs a rivalry when they've met just 12 times in their shared history.
Hard to call North Carolina-Kansas anything else, though.
They are linked by Dean Smith and Larry Brown, Matt Doherty and Roy Williams. And when they have played, the stakes have been the highest: Seven matchups in the NCAA Tournament, five in the Final Four, and twice the winner has cut down the nets — the Tar Heels won the national title in a triple-overtime thriller in 1957, turning back a team led by Wilt Chamberlain, while the Jayhawks got their...
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