'We can dream': 16th seed UNC Asheville faces Pitt

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the No. 1 seed, Pittsburgh is the better team.

No. 16 seed North Carolina-Asheville, at least for the moment, is the more interesting team.

Coach Jamie Dixon and his Pitt Panthers know the routine, so they offered the usual politically correct, nondescript answers on the eve of Thursday's 1-vs.-16 NCAA tournament duel that has always, without exception, gone in the favor of the 1.

Coach Eddie Biedenbach and his Bulldogs, meanwhile, are riding an unfamiliar wave they know could crest at any moment, so they might as well relax and say whatever's on their mind.

And they did.

"We're not one of the top 68 teams in the country," Biedenbach …