Cheering for UCLA's Lonzo Ball in Memphis or Baylor in Madison Square Garden should not come with a price. But it sure feels like it does.
As for the Bears, they are the top seed remaining in the East Region, thanks to the disappearance of Villanova and Duke. Yet it's still going to be quite an upset if Baylor works its way to the Final Four after staging a disappearance in the second half of the season.
After reaching the No. 1 ranking for the first time in school history, the Bears went 10-7. It seemed a bad reaction to the pressure, a slightly different form of what Scott Drew's teams have succumbed to the last two years in first-round NCAA losses to Yale and Georgia State.