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.
The PAC 12 Conference Tournament Champion Colorado Buffaloes will take on the UNLV Rebels in New Mexico on Thursday night.
Well the Wisconsin Badgers have done it again. Early in the Big Ten season it looked like their run of tournament appearances might come to a close but this team is so well coached it seems like they are never down for very long.
According to the Selection Show the only reason the Buckeyes were not a #1 seed was because they lost to Michigan State in the Big 10 Championship game.
Two teams with an identical 27-7 record this year will square off in Albuquerque on Thursday evening. The #14 seed South Dakota State Jackrabbits will take on the #3 seed Baylor Bears.
If you read the piece about the East Region that is posted you will know that I am very bullish on Gonzaga right now.
Western Kentucky pulled off an amazing comeback to beat Mississippi Valley State 59-58 in the first game of this year’s NCAA Tournament.
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.
There is a wide variety of teams that show up on the #13 seed line in the NCAA Tournament. Some of them seem to be there to have a good time, while others appear built to make a run.
