Sweet 16

• Nearly every season at the Final Four, I hear people say the teams should be re-seeded to ensure that the most deserving ones meet in the title game. This week in Kings Court, lets take it a step further. Lets re-seed the Sweet 16.
(ESPN)
• Much has been made of the absence of Syracuse center Fab Melo, who was ruled ineligible days before the tournament began. While the Orange have missed Melo's defensive presence in the middle, Rakeem Christmas has stepped up to average 7.0 points and 9.
(Boston Herald)
• At the start of Jim Boeheims postgame news conference after Syracuses victory over Kansas State last Saturday, the moderator informed the media that the win had moved Boeheim into a tie with John Wooden on the alltime NCAA tournament wins list.
(CNN Sports Illustrated)
• BOSTON — Jared Sullinger often replays in his mind Ohio States Sweet 16 appearance last year. He remembers the top-seeded Buckeyes going into the shootaround before the game against Kentucky — cocky, unfocused, prime upset material.
(Denver Post)
• PHOENIX — For much of the season, reserve forward Will Yeguete was the key to Florida's full-court press, its best interior defender and their most prodigious rebounder. But Yeguete has a broken left foot and is out for the rest of the season.
(Washington Post)
• The Jayhawks (No. 11 seed) earned the right to advance after upsetting No. 3 seed Delaware, 70-64, Tuesday night in Little Rock, Ark. The game will be in Des Moines, Iowa, on Mar. 24 at noon on ESPN.
(WBIR)
• North Carolina: F Tyler Zeller, 7-0 Sr. (16.5 ppg, 9.5 rpg, 50.2% FG); F Harrison Barnes, 6-8 So. (17.3 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 37.6% 3s); F John Henson, 6-11 Jr. (13.8 ppg, 10.1 rpg, 2.9 bpg).
(Huffington Post)
• Boston — The NCAA Tournament is college basketball's version of the blind-date. Most of the time, the two teams paired together know very little about each other.
(The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com (blog))
• NC State basketball has officially played in 13 regional semifinal games in the history of the NCAA Tournament. Since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985, the Wolfpack has appeared in the Sweet 16 four times.
(rivals.com)