LOUISVILLE, Ky. – If there was one round-of-32 NCAA tournament game that NBA scouts wanted to watch, this was it: Royce White of Iowa State against a front line of future pros at Kentucky.

White is the most unique player in college basketball, an amazing amalgam of strength, skill and explosiveness. UK center Anthony Davis has the most potential, a blossoming offensive player and established defensive terror. Kentucky forwards Terrence Jones and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist are first-round picks whenever they feel like putting their names in the draft.

They met in a Yum!my matchup in the Yum! Center on Saturday night. The result: White improved his draft stock, but the Wildcats improved their chances of winning a national title with an 87-71 victory. Next up: a Sweet 16 rematch with Indiana, the only team to beat Kentucky in the regular season.

White did things to Kentucky's front line that no one has done all season. He went around Jones like he was a totem pole. He dunked with Davis

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – About an hour after Murray State beat Colorado State on Thursday in the NCAA tournament, a hirsute summit transpired.

Murray State forward Ed Daniel and his hair met the creator of the Twitter account for Ed Daniel's hair. His name is Kyser Lough, a marketing specialist at Murray-Calloway County Hospital in Murray, Ky. But to Daniel and 563 other followers, he is @Ed_Hair.

@Ed_Hair is an homage to the towering orb of afro that billows out of a headband and elevates Daniel, a junior, from roughly 6 feet 7 to 6-11. It is the coolest hair in the NCAA tournament, if not the world. Which is why it needed its own Twitter account.

"I really never thought my hair would be this fascinating," Daniel said, amused.

Oh, it's fascinating, all right. Fascinating enough that Lough updates the Twitter account with Daniel's individual statistics categorized by hairdo.

There is the "EdFro," which is the standard, Ben Wallace-look afro that Daniel has favored more and more as the season

With less than two minutes left and his defending national champion Huskies all but eliminated from the NCAA tournament by Iowa State, Calhoun spent a timeout barraging official Mike Reed with criticism. After watching his team fail to fight for the first dozen minutes of the game, the coach was spoiling for one at the end.

Calhoun kept pushing, but Reed wouldn't give him the satisfaction. The ref walked away, and the game played out. The Cyclones won 77-64, and a snippet of Dylan Thomas poetry floated through my head.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Calhoun did not go gently Thursday night. He's never done anything gently in his accomplished but acrimonious tenure at UConn. Building a program out of nothing and taking it to three national titles was always a street fight for Calhoun – and he's been a good street fighter. He's more comfortable in brass knuckles than white gloves.

So he

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It's your Dance, John Calipari.

This is your NCAA tournament. All you have to do is win it – nothing more, and especially nothing less.

It's not necessarily now or never. But it's absolutely now. In 20 years as a college head coach, you've never had a better chance to win a national title.

Wednesday, you named off the great teams you've coached – Massachusetts 1996, Memphis 2008, Kentucky 2010 and '11. All came close to winning it all. None finished the deal. None had the advantages this one enjoys.

You have the best team, which is the most important thing of all.

Your seven-man rotation is nothing but NBA prospects, one through seven, including a couple of top-five picks. Don't bother with the "young team" line because every coach in America would love to be burdened with the youth of Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.

You have the healthiest team of all the No. 1 seeds. North Carolina is hoping leading rebounder and No. 3 scorer John Henson recovers from a

What's the wildest dream for your team in this NCAA tournament? What's the darkest nightmare? We'll tell you. Here are the best-case and worst-case scenarios for every team in the West Region.

1. Michigan State

Best case: Just before leaving the locker room for the Spartans' 9:20 opener in Columbus on Friday night, they see Michigan get upset in Nashville by Ohio on TV. With that extra bounce in their step, Tom Izzo's team steamrolls through the West Region and into the Final Four, where they win the school's third national title. They do it with defense, rebounding and Draymond "Day-Day" Green. Day-Day's double-doubles (six of them) help the Spartans muscle past Memphis, shut down Louisville, then batter Missouri inside to reach New Orleans. Once there, a classic Izzo Guy, senior guard Austin Thornton, hits the game-winning 3-pointer to shock Kentucky. Then the Spartans get aircraft carrier payback, beating North Carolina as the final game of the season circles back to the start.

What’s the wildest dream for your team in this NCAA tournament? What’s the darkest nightmare? We’ll tell you. Here are the best-case and worst-case scenarios for every team in the South Region.

1. Kentucky

Best case: Humbled and refocused by stunning upset loss to Vanderbilt in the SEC tournament final, the Wildcats storm through the tournament in dominant fashion to win the school’s eighth national championship. They throttle Indiana in a Sweet 16 payback game, then unload 20 years of pent-up Christian Laettner angst on Duke in the regional final. After thumping Cinderella Murray State in a national semifinal, Anthony Davis hangs a triple-double (20 points, 10 rebounds, 10 blocks) on Vandy in a payback title-game blowout. Awestruck school children ask their parents how to grow unibrows. John Calipari is given a lifetime contract and a horse farm. In gratitude, he signs 14 more McDonald’s All-Americans. Plans are unveiled to expand Rupp Arena to 70,000. Meanwhile, Louisville loses

What’s the wildest dream for your team in this NCAA tournament? What’s the darkest nightmare? We’ll tell you. Here are the best-case and worst-case scenarios for every team in the Midwest Region.

1. North Carolina

Best case: On a tour of its own glorious past, the Tar Heels add to the lore by winning their sixth national title. After opening with two walkovers in Greensboro, the Heels move on to St. Louis – site of their 2005 national championship. There, they dispatch Michigan and Georgetown (Ol’ Roy is spared another run-in with Kansas) to reach New Orleans – site of both Dean Smith’s national titles, in 1982 and ’93. But something weird has to happen for the Heels to win there – first it was Fred Brown throwing the ball away, then Chris Webber calling a timeout his team didn’t have. Now, after beating Florida State to avenge two earlier losses, Carolina is confronted by Kentucky – the team that eliminated the Heels last season and beat them by a point in December. With the game on

What's the wildest dream for your team in this NCAA tournament? What's the darkest nightmare? We'll tell you. Here are the best-case and worst-case scenarios for every team in the East Region.

1. Syracuse

Best case: Encased in a force field of indifference, either real or impressively feigned, Jim Boeheim continues his remarkable ability to coach great basketball through off-court issues. The bombshells of Bernie Fine, drug-testing issues that have resulted in an NCAA investigation and Tuesday's suspension of Fab Melo haven't touched the Orange, who won 31 times during the regular season and win six more in the tournament for the school's second national championship. With the 2-3 zone airtight and Kris Joseph raising his game to a senior-in-March level, 'Cuse rolls past UNC-Asheville, Kansas State, Vanderbilt and Florida State to reach New Orleans. Once there, Syracuse gets a lunging blocked shot by Hakim Warrick – no, wait, it's Baye Keita – of a potential tying 3-pointer by a Roy