Every men's Final Four team will need more than the star players to come up big. Here's who could be the hero for every team in Indianapolis.

NEW YORK – It hasn’t exactly been an easy situation to navigate for UConn guard Malachi Smith, who started in 77 of 86 career games at Dayton before he joined the program as a fifth-year graduate transfer. Playing point guard for Dan Hurley – especially as a reserve – can be an unforgiving experience. All it takes is one mistake and a substitution is headed to the scorer’s table. If Hurley ...

STORRS – Before a practice leading into Tuesday’s UConn men’s basketball game against Providence, Dan Hurley made sure to have a conversation with backup point guard Malachi Smith. Since transferring in from Dayton, Smith had shown the ways he can impact winning in some of the Huskies’ biggest nonconference games, particularly at Madison Square Garden, where he had 14 points and nine assists ...