They happened roughly two hours and 1,200 miles apart on the opening Saturday of the NCAA tournament. In Providence, Rhode Island, Duke outlasted Yale 71-64 to advance to the Sweet 16. And in Columbia, Missouri, St. Louis' Chaminade College Prep held off Springfield's Kickapoo High 72-59 for a state championship.

America cared deeply about one of those results, if not the other.

Yet shortly after the Blue Devils' dynamic duo of sophomore Grayson Allen and NBA draft-bound freshman Brandon Ingram went off for a combined 54 points in their victory, the Red Devils' Duke-bound senior sensation, Jayson Tatum, exploded in his, scori...

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