Order on the Court: College Basketball’s Blue Bloods

There is a great deal more than Madness lurking within the Division 1 NCAA Basketball Tournament.

Mark Mehler and Jeff Tiberii take a close look at the magnificent seven--Kentucky, Kansas, UCLA, North Carolina, Duke, Indiana, and the University of Connecticut--examining how they have managed over multiple decades to establish themselves as American basketball royalty.

Mark Mehler is a veteran journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and Sports Illustrated. He is the co-author of Madness: The 10 Most Memorable NCAA Basketball Finals (Sports Publishing, 2018). He lives in Jackson Heights, NY. Jeff Tiberii has spent the last 20 years as a reporter in public radio, covering North Carolina politics since 2015. He has covered higher education, the opioid epidemic and college athletics, including multiple NCAA and ACC basketball tournaments. Jeff has been honored as North Carolina Radio Reporter of the Year four times. He lives in Raleigh, NC.