The brackets for the NCAA baseball tournament were announced on Monday. Host N.C. State meets Bryant on Friday (ESPN+, 7 p.m.). South Carolina and James Madison also play in the Raleigh regional on Friday (ESPN+, 2 p.m.). … UNC was awarded the No. 4 national seed and will host Long Island on Friday (ESPN+, 6 p.m.). LSU and Wofford also meet Friday in the Chapel Hilln regional (ESPNU, noon). In the Greenville regional on Friday, East Carolina plays Evansville (ESPN+, 1 p.m.) and Wake Forest takes on Virginia Commonwealth (ESPN+, 6 p.m.). Duke is in the Oklahoma regional and meets Connecticut on Friday (ESPN+, 1 p.m.). UNC Wilmington faces Georgia Tech in the Georgia regional on Friday (ESPN+, 7 p.m.). … Bill Walton, a multi-time NCAA champion at UCLA and an NBA champion with Portland and Boston, has passed away at the age of 71. … Boston completed a sweep of Indiana in the Eastern Conference finals pf the NBA playoffs on Monday night with a 105-102 win. … Host Dallas takes a 3-0 lead in the Western Conference final into its matchup with Minnesota tonight (TNT, 8:30 p.m.).