GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Latest on the semifinal games in the Final Four: (all times local):

Two college basketball programs on opposite ends of the country and with much different histories will face off for the national championship on Monday. That it came down to Carolina's winning on the boards was no big surprise. Kennedy Meeks dominated play inside with 14 points and five rebounds for the Tar Heels. Meeks, the only Tar Heel who could shoot straight Saturday night, grabbed the game-saving offensive rebound in a 77-76 victory over Oregon after the ice-cold Tar Heels missed their fourth straight free throw down the stretch. It was all part of a career night for the North Carolina senior, who was on the bench in last year's championship game when Villanova devastatingly ended the Tar Heels' chance at a title with a 3-pointer at the buzzer. GOOD COMPANY: According to ESPN Stats & Info, Meeks joins Larry Bird, Ed O'Bannon, Carmelo Anthony and Danny Manning as the only players in the past 40 years to reach 25 points and 14 rebounds in the Final Four. The rest of his team shot a brick-a-minute 14-for-55 from the floor (25 percent). Justin Jackson was one of the few to break through. He had 22 points on 6-for-13 shooting, including a five-minute stretch with three 3-pointers and two free throws that helped the Heels to a double-digit lead and put them on the verge of a runaway midway through the second half. “They’ve had to live with all of this, all the swirling innuendo with what went on there with all the academic fraud allegations,” he said. In some ways, losing this one might have felt every bit as bad as the Villanova loss last year for this, a team on a mission with only one acceptable destination. Mostly on grit, rebounding and Meeks, North Carolina (33-6) led this game the entire second half and appeared poised, time after time, for a knockout of the never-say-die Ducks (32-7). Never happened. And after Keith Smith’s layup pulled Oregon within one with 7 seconds left, it looked like it would come down to free throws. It did, and it wasn’t pretty. First, Meeks got fouled, stepped to the line and calmly bricked two. Theo Pinson got inside and batted the ball back out to Berry, who then got fouled with four seconds left and took his turn at the line. "I just didn't want to lose another game off a winning shot," said Joel Berry II, who missed the free throw that Meeks tore away from Jordan Bell to ice the game. But Meeks got inside of Bell for that final rebound and threw it outside to Pinson, who dribbled out the clock to end this ugly affair. "My main focus was -- if Joel missed the second free throw -- to hit the offensive glass hard," Meeks said.
In the other semifinal, North Carolina defeats Oregon 77–76.