You want to know how 10th-seeded Kent State made it to the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament Round of 16? What about No. 11 Southern Illinois or No. 12 Missouri?
Watching Chinese TV sports channels is, for an American viewer, like seeing the old "Wide World of Sports" expanded into infinity: swimming, women's volleyball, European soccer, Formula One racing, minor-league basketball, bullfighting — round the clock and all year.
At 2.15pm Canada and Serbia's women bring on the basketball preliminary rounds; the US women's team and Australian men's teams get a bye this time, but the US men must take on Venezuela: that's at 7pm.
This is to say that Justice is just in the same was as Socrates is just, or that Beauty is beautiful in the same way as Helen is beautiful, or that the Circle Itself is circular in the same way as my basketball: both are round.
Kids play basketball all year round".
Photographs: Armando Franca/AP 10.36am BST French player Nicolas Batum falls during a men's preliminary round basketball match against Lithuania.
And the instincts of the network suits proved correct, as Florida State and Cincinnati did not put on an aesthetic display of basketball in the Round of 32.
Photograph: Christian Petersen/Getty Images 11.14pm BST Pops Mensah-Bonsu, left, gets to grips with Spanish centre Serge Ibaka during Britain's narrow 79-78 defeat in the men's preliminary round basketball match.
Charles Barkley is the legendary pro basketball great, the "Round Mound of Rebound," who played for the Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns, and Houston Rockets in the 1980s and '90s.
Cover image: A Michigan State fan reacts to the action on the court during the NCAA Division I Men's Championship Second Round basketball game between the Syracuse Orange and the Michigan State Spartans on March 18 , 2018at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan.
