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The Vanderbilt Commodores breathed a sigh of relief after beating Harvard in the round of 64.
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The Vanderbilt Commodores breathed a sigh of relief after beating Harvard in the round of 64.
If you read my regional preview than you already know that I am thrilled with how Gonzaga looked on Thursday night in clobbering West Virginia.
The Kansas State Wildcats advance to the round of 32 where they find the East’s # 1 seed Syracuse waiting for them.
The No. 6 Murray Racers overcame any tournament tension they may have had, and just two years after they let slip their chances at a long run in the NCAA tournament, cruised to a 58-41 victory over Colorado State on Thursday.
Kansas lost in the Big 12 conference semifinals and that likely cost them a #1 seed in the Big Dance. Detroit will not be a pushover and the Titans have won 5 straight and even though they only finished 3rd in the Horizon Conference this season they did not have much trouble winning the conference tourney.
South Florida was sitting on the Big Dance bubble, but they made it in and beat California in the play-in game to make the field of 64.
Purdue ended the season well winning 6 of their last 8 games, but they lost to Ohio State in the Big 10 semis.
Michigan is coming off getting crushed in the Big 10 semifinals and they now face an Ohio team that has won 4 straight.
The Florida State Seminoles excite with their wins even if they are not a very exciting team to watch. They took down Duke and North Carolina in the regular season and did so again in the ACC tournament to earn the conference’s automatic bid.
The Cincinnati Bearcats are a study in contrasts this year. After the brawl with Xavier they regrouped and played very good basketball, so good they surprised Syracuse in the Big East Tournament.
Georgetown is the 3rd seed in the Midwest Region, but they have lost in the first round in the last 2 NCAA Tournaments and they face a dangerous Belmont team that made the Big Dance last season and is the nation’s 4th highest scoring team.
The #9 vs. #8 match up in the Midwest Region between Creighton and Alabama is a good one with a couple of teams with contrasting styles and the winner will likely have the unenviable task of taking on North Carolina in the round of 32.
SDSU had won their last 6 games before falling to New Mexico in the Mountain West Conference finals and this season they were 3-1 facing ranked teams.
A pair of teams with two drastically different styles will face off in this one, as the seventh-seed Florida Gators take on the No. 10 Virginia Cavaliers in a second-round West Regional game in Omaha on Friday afternoon.
While it wasn’t considered a banner season by their extremely high standards, the Duke Blue Devils are once again a #2 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
The tenth seeded Xavier Musketeers will take on the seventh seeded Notre Dame Fighting Irish Friday night in Greensboro.