Sunday’s NCAA tournament second-round game times, TV information set

North Carolina must come back from a double-digit deficit if it wants to make a third straight Final Four.

“I was so excited this week to play this game”, Williams said.

2 seed and defending national champion North Carolina was the clear favorite over No. 7 Texas A&M, but the Tar Heels certainly didn’t play like it, falling 86-65. With 15 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, Theo Pinson played well for North Carolina. “That’s why I do this … to see guys grown hopefully into bigger and better things in life”.

While that’s probably an exaggeration meant to play games with an opponent’s mind, UNC (26-10) does have reason to be concerned about Texas A&M’s strength inside. They used their size to control the paint and block shots.

Texas A&M poses a potentially hard matchup for the No. 2-seed Tar Heels, given its size and experience in the post.

Even with 10 losses, UNC is the tournament’s No. 5 overall seed and the West Region’s No. 2.

They’ll have a hard matchup in the Sweet 16.

A&M’s frontcourt, led by Davis and sophomore center Robert Williams, is the Aggies’ strength. Total Fouls-Texas A&M 13, North Carolina 20. I kind of went back at him and I told him I’m not afraid. North Carolina knew they were going to expect that, but the Bison kept up.

“I think it gives us a good home feel with a lot of Carolina support in the crowd”, Carolina guard Cameron Johnson said. Yet the Tar Heels rank second nationally in rebounding margin (plus-10.2) by getting on the offensive glass.

The Tar Heels shot 54.8 percent in the first half, though they were bothered by eight turnovers. “Just keep attacking the boards”.

Haas wore a long sleeve black shirt that said “Empathy” in white and black warmup trousers as his teammates began the game.

REMATCH: The roles are reversed between Xavier and Florida State in Nashville when the Musketeers seeded No. 11 pulled off the big upset of the then-No. Last year, Villanova was bounced by Wisconsin.

Xavier is coming off its highest-scoring NCAA game ever after a 102-83 win over Texas Southern.

UNC doesn’t like the three-pointer.

“Just play with energy and effort”, he said said.

“Everybody knows it takes a magical performance from somebody like us to beat somebody like them”, Lipscomb coach Casey Alexander said, “and we didn’t get that”.

Michigan’s here because of a thrilling, last-second win in the second round.

The Aggies’ defense frustrated the Tar Heels, who also missed plenty of good looks.

Ryan Odom, who was 10 at the time, later served on Greenberg’s staffs at South Florida and Virginia Tech.

“It’s incredible what they did”, Davis said.