We are down to four teams vying for the 2018 NCAA Tournament championship — four completely different teams that got to this point in four different ways.
Here we are at the Final Four. The stage is literally bigger (hello, Alamodome!), and the stakes are high. While the tournament has been fun so far, this is championship-winning time.
It may seem like the dog days of the college hoops season, but while the weather is cold outside, the play is heating up on the hardwood. Conference season is going strong, and we've already had some big games go down with a bunch more the rest of the way.
The much-anticipated 2017-18 college basketball season starts Nov. 10 with plenty of intriguing games before and during conference play. In fact, the NCAA schedulers wasted no time giving fans some games expected to be good ones, but it's not just a front-heavy slate.