Oddsmakers expect close games, but think North Carolina will beat Kansas and go on to win the first NCAA tournament with all four No. 1 seeds in the Final Four.

Jay Kornegay, chief of the Las Vegas Hilton Race and Sports Book, picked the Tar Heels as the favorite to win the championship at 9-5, followed by UCLA at 2-1, Kansas at 5-2 and Memphis at 3-1.

For the first time since the NCAA started seeding teams in 1979, the top seeds in the brackets reached the semifinals.

Western Kentucky coach Darrin Horn is leaving for South Carolina after the Hilltoppers' best finish in the NCAA tournament in 15 years. Horn told the school's president yesterday he had accepted an offer from the Gamecocks to replace Dave Odom, who retired at the end of the season.

The Lopez twins are going pro together. Sophomore Robin Lopez is joining his 7-foot brother Brook in entering the NBA draft. It was expected that Brook would declare himself eligible for the NBA, but Robin was not so certain.

Freshman guard Keegan Bell will transfer when the spring semester ends. Bell, from Hazel Green, Ala., played in every game as a freshman.

Men's coach Steve Alford was given a three-year contract extension that runs through 2015-16.