West Bracket – Gators vs Cardinals Handicapping Pick
This could be the best matchup of the entire Elite 8 lineup this weekend, pitting two teams that pulled off slight upsets in the West Region semifinals on Thursday night.
This could be the best matchup of the entire Elite 8 lineup this weekend, pitting two teams that pulled off slight upsets in the West Region semifinals on Thursday night.
This could quite possibly be the best game of the this year’s Sweet 16, and is definitely the most evenly matched, as the No. 3 Seed Marquette Golden Eagles take on the No. 7 Seed Florida Gators in the second game of a double header in Phoenix on Thursday.
After meeting just once since the turn of the century in a 2009 NCAA tournament regional final showdown, the top-seeded Michigan State Spartans will once again meet up with the No. 4 Louisville Cardinals, this time aiming to exact a little revenge on that 1959 88-81 loss, in Thursday’s West Regional semifinals in the Valley of the Sun.
The Michigan State Spartans survived the upset bug that bit two No. 2 seeds and advanced to the third round of the West Regional’s on Saturday where they will face a St. Louis Billikens squad which rode its stingy defense to a 61-54 victory upset over Memphis on Friday night.
New Mexico comes into this third round matchup aiming to win its first ever back-to-back game set in the NCCA tournament, but it won’t be an easy task against a Louisville Cardinals team who have posted five straight wins after beating 13th-seeded Davidson in the opening round on Thursday.
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.
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.
Two of possibly the better teams in the West Bracket will do battle on Thursday afternoon when the fifth-seeded New Mexico Lobos meet up with the 12th-seed Long Beach State 49ers at the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon.
The fourth-seeded Cardinals have been ousted from the NCAA kingdom in a quick-one-and-done in each of the past two seasons, and will now aim to change all of that when they meet up with 13th-seeded Davidson in the West Regional on Thursday afternoon in Rip City.
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This year’s NCAA Tournament gets underway on Tuesday night in the West bracket with a interesting matchup between the Iona Gaels, who will be drawing upon what Virginia Commonwealth did last year in the NCAA Tournament after appearing in a First Four game, and the Cougars of BYU who are one of this year’s favorites to reappear in the Sweet 16.
Every single game is extremely important for Memphis heading down the stretch in terms of seeding in the NCAA tournament, but they have to be careful not to look too far head that they don’t see a very tough Tulsa Golden Hurricane squad that has had a somewhat surprising run thus far in the conference.
I think we all remember what happened last time these two met. It was arguably one of the best finishes ever to take place in the history of the series, and we know just how rich of a history these two have against each other.
Big East Player of the Year candidate Jae Crowder will lead his No. 10 Marquette Golden Eagles into battle against the Cincinnati Bearcats on Wednesday in Ohio.
This is a game that Tennessee absolutely has to have if they are to have any chance at getting into the field of 68. Even with a win here, they will have a lot of work left in the SEC tournament, but this would give them yet another quality win if they are able to pull it out.
Big East Player of the Year candidate Jae Crowder will lead his No. 10 Marquette Golden Eagles into battle against the Cincinnati Bearcats on Wednesday in Ohio.