In a matchup between bluebloods and the blue-collared, South Regional champion Duke will face East Regional champ West Virginia. And in a meeting of Final Four veterans and never-beens, it will be Midwest Regional champ Michigan State against West Regional champion Butler.
Michigan State and Duke would give the title game April 5 at Lucas Oil Stadium the feeling of college basketball royalty competing for a crown. The two schools have combined to play for 12 NCAA tournament championships, winning five of them.
A game that pits the Bulldogs against the Mountaineers would ensure at least one school its first national championship. West Virginia has made only one trip to the title game, in 1959, while Butler will be playing in its first semifinal in its own backyard.
The tournament already has turned millions of brackets into confetti, created dozens more highlights for the "One Shining Moment" montages and left a trail of broken dreams stretching from Salt Lake City to Syracuse, N.Y.
It all ends next weekend in Indianapolis.
Duke's Brian Zoubek, right, grabs a rebound from Baylor's Anthony Jones, left, and Josh Lomers during the first half of the NCAA South Regional college basketball championship game in Houston on Sunday. / photo: Associated Press
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