The Daily Read

The Daily Read

Today's Read already filled out its bracket.  These stories helped.

Longtime Basketball Times contributor Dick "Hoops" Weiss (New York Daily News) has two Goliaths circled on his bracket — Kansas and Kentucky.

Rick Bozich, a Basketball Times contributor and Louisville Courier-Journal columnist, offers a field guide, of sorts, for everyone to eyeball before filling out that bracket.

Another Basketball Times contributor, Blair Kerkhoff of the Kansas City Star, peels the layers off a sweet-smelling field of 65.

Many familiar faces are missing this March, but Washington, from the watered-down Pac-10, slid its feet into a pair of dance shoes, from the Seattle Times.

The Philadelphia Daily News' Dick Jerardi, a Basketball Times alum, provides select information to avoid bursting your bubble.

More than anything else, this tournament is defined by its parity, from The New York Times.  And also from the Times, a game-by-game prediction.

Best first-round storyline?  No. 5 Temple vs. No. 12 Cornell.  Big Red coach Steve Donahue spent 10 years as an assistant at Penn under Fran Dunphy, from the Ithaca Journal.

Kansas, the tournament's top seed, is surprised by its seemingly difficult road to the Final Four.  The Midwest Regional features Ohio State and Georgetown, along with Tennessee and Oklahoma State — two teams that knocked the Jayhawks off this year, from the Lawrence Journal-World and News.