FOXNews.com: Kansas beats UNC to advance to Final Four

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Kansas beats UNC to advance to Final Four Mar 25th 2012, 23:38 St. Louis, MO –  For the first time since winning the national championship in 2008, Kansas is going to the Final Four. Tyshawn Taylor poured in a game-high 22 points and the Jayhawks scored 12 unanswered points before time expired to secure their trip to New Orleans with an 80-67 victory over North Carolina in the Midwest Regional final on Sunday. All of KU's starters finished in double-figures, including 18 points from Thomas Robinson to go with nine rebounds and 15 points from Jeff Withey, who also supplied eight boards and three blocks, two of which came in the final minutes and helped prevent a final UNC run. Travis Releford and Elijah Johnson netted 11 and 10 points, respectively, for the second-seeded Jayhawks (31-6), who will battle fellow No. 2 seed Ohio State with a spot in the national title game on the line. Freshman reserve James Michael McAdoo led the top-seeded Tar Heels (32-6) with 15 points, Harrison Barnes donated 13 and Tyler Zeller contributed 12 in defeat. The Heels were halted in the Elite Eight for the second consecutive season after falling to Kentucky in the regional finals in 2011. Stilman White, a freshman starting at point guard for the second straight game in place of the injured Kendall Marshall, handed out seven assists but scored just four points and missed all three of his three-point attempts. Marshall averaged 10.5 assists per game and led the team with a 66.7 percent three- point percentage before suffering a broken bone in UNC's win over Creighton.

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