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TAMPA, Fla. — Brayden Point hobbled off the ice late in the second period of Tuesday night’s game and quickly disappeared down the tunnel.

The Carolina Hurricanes will meet the Washington Capitals in NHL action on Monday night from Capital One Arena.

“No one thought we could do it,” has become a cliché when teams have success. When it comes from an Alabama football player or Duke basketball player, it can induce eye-rolling.

The NCAA Tournament is nothing like the movie “Hoosiers.”

A huge second half vs. Miami was a reminder that the Jayhawks are the highest seed still standing.

The stirring, historic run into the NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight and Sunday’s first half against mighty Kansas showed us all how close the Miami Hurricanes are to being a basketball school, too.

It was a stretch of games on the schedule, three in four days, that probably caused Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour to shudder a bit — at St. Louis, at Washington, at Tampa Bay.

CHICAGO — If Kansas’ men’s basketball team is to reach the Final Four, the Jayhawks will have to defeat a team that has a former KU player at the lead guard position.

MIAMI — There was this one burst that sealed the historic night for Miami Hurricanes men’s basketball.

An Elite Eight matchup with mighty Kansas for a spot in the Final Four? Who would’ve believed it?

CHICAGO — The Miami Hurricanes’ improbable ride through March Madness continued, as they overcame Iowa State’s suffocating defense and deafening fan contingent to advance to their first Elite Eight in school history with a 70-56 win over the Cyclones in the most unforeseen Sweet 16 matchup of the NCAA Tournament.