If anyone had forecast back in October that North Carolina and South Carolina would meet on April 3 to determine who would wear the crown of Division I men’s basketball champion, they would have been called half-crazy.

North Carolina, a traditional power that returned several key players from the 2016 national runner-ups, was considered among the elite likely to make its way to Arizona, so the inclusion of the Tar Heels would not have been considered looney. But South Carolina, although a talented bunch, had never before played this deep into a college basketball season, and anyone predicting the Gamecocks would this time would have provoked a roll of the eyes.

But there is a chance that could happen as the odds, once in the tens of thousands to one, have now been sliced to about 20 percent.

The Gamecocks are about 6-point underdogs tonight when they play No. 1 seed Gonzaga, but they have been underdogs for much of this March Madness, and that didn’t stop them from eliminating Duke, Baylor and Florida, all of which were favored, in that order. Las Vegas, which has a very vested interested, predicts the Gamecocks will be about 4 points short of the championship game, but much stranger things have happened.

For the Tar Heels, the trip to the Final Four has been well-traveled as this is their 20th arrival, which is the most by any college, and they seek their sixth NCAA championship, which would put them third all-time, behind UCLA with 11 and Kentucky with eight. The Tar Heels are 5-point favorites over Oregon tonight, and is the team that Vegas now gives the best odds of cutting down the nets on Monday at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

So we have a proposal — and it sounds crazy, so read to the end.

If North Carolina and South Carolina should win tonight, it seems silly to play that game 3,000 miles away from both their home states.

This Border War should be played, drum roll please, at South of the Border, except we are unaware of a basketball court at that tourist trap. We would have suggested South Robeson High School in Rowland, but we know the NCAA is still trying to figure out if it is satisfied with the HB2 “reset.” We don’t want to push our luck, especially given the incredible logistical challenges of moving the championship game back east.

We think the game should be play at Dillon High School. We know the gym won’t accommodate all the ticket-holders, but most won’t make the trip anyway.

We would ask that the NCAA take all the proceeds from the title game and raised through commercial endeavors and distribute it to victims of Hurricane Matthew, meaning most of the dollars would end up in Robeson County. This would again remind the country — and the world — of our continued struggles to recover from the Oct. 8 event and the flooding that followed, and we are sure that would prompt another influx of donations.

We know there are those of you who on this April Fools Day think our proposal is foolish, but we believe it makes perfect sense.

So go Gamecocks, and go Tar Heels.

And then, go Heels.