Insiders over outsiders

Arthur Staple:

Bob McKillop wasn’t yet resigned to his fate on Saturday evening, but he had a good idea what was happening.

“Last year, we were on the inside,” the Davidson coach said. “This year, we’re on the outside.”

And outside is where all the wannabe Cinderellas ended up this year.

Which is a pretty big shame given how much joy McKillop’s team, led by the jaw-droppingly excellent Stephen Curry, provided last year.

America’s team

Newsday: He’s built up Davidson into something as incredible and unlikely as Curry’s skills. A small, elite, liberal-arts school of a couple thousand, tucked outside Charlotte, close enough to Tobacco Road to expect only the leftovers of what Duke, Carolina and N.C. State leave behind, is in the top 25 and coming off a run to the Elite Eight.