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Louisville head coach Rick Pitino gestures to his team during the second half of the Cardinals’ win against Notre Dame the Big East Conference tournament in New York. After decking Duke in Midwest Regional final Sunday, the Cardinals have shown that they’re comfortable being front-runners in their season-long quest to go further than last year’s Final Four appearance, and Las Vegas sportsbooks have listed the Cardinals as odds-on, 3-5 favorites to emerge from Atlanta as national champions.
The word of the season: Parity.
The team of the moment: Louisville.
For a college basketball season in which it seemed anybody could beat anybody, and the No. 1 ranking was never secure, Rick Pitino’s Cardinals have certainly cemented themselves as a prohibitive front-runner now that there are only four teams left. They head to Atlanta listed as 3-5 favorites in Las Vegas, after dispatching everyone from Duke to North Carolina A&T with equal ease on their way to the Final Four.
Trying to stop them will be Michigan, Syracuse and Wichita State — a pair of No. 4 seeds and a No. 9, all serving as...
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