OKLAHOMA CITY - For the longtime Arizona State basketball fan who thought the Sun Devils once had a chance to reach the Final Four, today's matchup with Kansas has some significance.

LAWRENCE — Kansas will begin selling tickets immediately for the Dec. 31 Insight Bowl in Tempe, Ariz., the school announced Friday.

No one at Kansas State wants to admit thinking about it, but we can: If Ell Roberson had been healthy all year, the Wildcats might be playing for a national championship instead of in Friday’s Fiesta Bowl.

No one at Kansas State wants to admit thinking about it, but we can: If Ell Roberson had been healthy all year, the Wildcats might be playing for a national championship instead of in Friday’s Fiesta Bowl.

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Arizona took all the drama out of this one early. After beating Gonzaga by one point in a double-overtime classic, the top-seeded Wildcats rolled right over Notre Dame 88-71 Thursday night to advance to the West Regional final.

SURPRISE - After recording a season-low six hits in Tuesday night’s 6-2 loss, the No. 4 Arizona State Sun Devils bounced back on Wednesday, pounding out a season-high 8 hits in a 12-1 victory over Kansas State at Surprise Stadium. ASU improved to 12-2 with the win.

MINNEAPOLIS - Even after finishing its season with a 55-0 loss to Iowa, the Minnesota Gophers learned Sunday that they'll play in the Insight Bowl on Dec. 31. The Gophers will face Kansas in the game in Tempe.

WICHITA, Kan. - Whooping cough cases have soared more than tenfold in Kansas so far this year compared to 2003, killing one young child and infecting people in 54 Kansas counties, health officials said Wednesday.

NEW ORLEANS - The Syracuse Orangemen were playground players early, a bundle of nerves late. They juked, jammed and barely held on for a victory that gave coach Jim Boeheim his long-awaited championship.

OKLAHOMA CITY - For the longtime Arizona State basketball fan who thought the Sun Devils once had a chance to reach the Final Four, today's matchup with Kansas has some significance.

Kansas, Kentucky, Duke and Syracuse earned top billing and the No. 1 seeds for the NCAA tournament Sunday, with the Jayhawks named the top seed overall for the 2010 version of March Madness.

WICHITA, Kan. - An activist abortion opponent was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the death of late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, and the prosecutor said the evidence in the case ruled out the death penalty.

Cool and collected, Kavya Shivashankar wrote out every word on her palm and always ended with a smile. The 13-year-old Kansas girl saved the biggest smile for last, when she rattled off the letters to "Laodicean" to become the nation's spelling champion.

The Arizona State baseball team scored early and often in a 12-10 victory over Kansas on Sunday during the last game of the Coca-Cola Classic at Surprise Stadium.