News and notes from the NCAA South Regional in Louisville

The NCAA welcomes Princeton to the South Regional in Louisville. (Steve Silverman)

LOUISVILLE, KY. – Greetings from the South Regional of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.  We’re several hours away from tip-off of the Sweet 16 matchup between the No. 15 Princeton Tigers and the No. 6 Creighton Blue Jays, the first time an Ivy program has played a game this deep in the tournament since 2010.

Here are a few tidbits from my first 12 hours in Louisville, the birthplace and home of Muhammad Ali, Churchill Downs, and the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory:

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