
New York - In this, the strangest of college basketball seasons, the makeup of the four teams left in the N.C.A.A. men’s tournament seems almost scripted, in a perfectly nonscripted sort of way. Go ahead, try and make some sense of it. There is one national player of the year candidate remaining, Trey Burke of Michigan. There is one No. 1 seed remaining, Louisville. There is one old-guard Big East team, Syracuse, before the conference as we know it disbands and the Orange leave basketball tradition for football dollars. And there is one outlier, the Wichita State Shockers, their glorious mascot WuShock in tow. Welcome to Parityville. Congratulations to the four of you who











