Tennessee guard and leading scorer Chris Lofton has a minor leg injury but is expected to play tomorrow against Louisville.

Lofton was at practice yesterday but limited his activity to shooting free throws and riding an exercise bicycle. He did not speak to reporters .

"[Tuesday] was just an opportunity to give it another day's rest from a precautionary standpoint," coach Bruce Pearl said. "The ankle, the heel, the Achilles -- it's all pretty sore. We absolutely anticipate him playing. If we had a game tonight, he would play."

Lofton hurt his ankle in the first half of Tennessee's 76-71 overtime win against Butler.

He leads Tennessee with 15.5 points per game.

Michael Beasley is still grappling with a decision, but his coach expects his star freshman to head into the NBA draft. Frank Martin said he believes the 6-foot-10 power forward, even though he loves college life, will probably opt to turn pro. "I think he's going to go, and I think it's the right thing to do, because he's going to be the top pick in the draft," Martin said.

When Tyrone Brazelton went home to Chicago in the spring of 2006 to tell family and friends that two years of hard work at junior college had landed him a basketball scholarship at Western Kentucky, the reaction was less than overwhelming. "Some of the older people in the community in Chicago, they know about the history and the tradition and heritage [of Western Kentucky]," Brazelton said. "But most of the younger people still ask me is it a Division II, so they don't know much about it. They will now."

Roy Williams will get his wish. Players will not be slipping on giant decals for the rest of the NCAA tournament. The floors at the Final Four and the four NCAA regional sites, were never scheduled to have decals pressed onto them. The future of the decals, which bear the NCAA logo, also will be part of the NCAA's customary, extensive review after the tournament.

"We're glad," said Steve Kirschner, North Carolina's associate athletics director for communications, "because we think it's certainly safer for the players [without the decals]."

During Sunday's second-round win against Arkansas at the RBC Center, North Carolina players Tyler Hansbrough and Marcus Ginyard slipped on the circular NCAA decal, which was more than 20 feet in diameter and centered at midcourt. Tar Heels coach Williams opened his postgame news conference by saying the logos are dangerous. "Pull the dadgum things off," he said.

Television ratings for the men's tournament on CBS declined 9 percent from last year. After four days and 15 telecasts, the games averaged a 4.8 rating and an 11 share in the fast national ratings, the network said. The tournament had a 5.3 rating and 12 share over the same period in 2007. CBS attributed the drop to the Easter weekend.

Fast national ratings are ratings subject to review. A ratings point represents 1,096,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 109.6 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.