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Old School Meets New School
Villanova has not advanced out of the opening weekend since 2009 and is 3-5 – with three losses as a 1 or 2 seed. Here come the Wildcats again as a 2 seed in the South with an uneasy history making them a shaky Final Four pick. Will this year’s team face added pressure or use recent failures as motivation?...
Baylor was among the best teams in the best conference this season and hopes the high level of competition puts it in a position to succeed. The fifth-seeded Bears are coming off a 70-66 loss to No. 1 Kansas in the Big 12 tournament semis and have lost three of their last four games – all against ranked foes....
Just a couple years removed from a run to the Elite Eight, the Flyers are back in the Big Dance for the third straight season. In 2014, they matched up with Syracuse and beat the Orange 55-53. They were a significant underdog in that game, but have the odds slightly in their favor this time around....
The Fresno State Bulldogs are heating up at the right time of the year, having won nine straight and knocking off San Diego State to win the Mountain West and a berth into the NCAA Tournament. Now they face their toughest test yet when they play the Pac-12 runner-up, the Utah Utes....
Technically this is Duke’s defense of its 2015 NCAA Tournament title, but the two teams are completely different. The Blue Devils have won their region 16 times, but they’ve never won a West Regional in the five times being placed there. They begin defense of their title as the West’s No. 4 seed against in-state counterpart UNC Wilmington....
UConn was dead and buried against Cincinnati in the first round of the AAC tournament, literally 0.8 seconds away from the NIT. But a program-defining Hail Mary saved the Huskies season and propelled them to the tournament title. Colorado flew under the radar as one of the top teams in a very tough Pac-12....
Texas Tech made the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2007 on the strength of some huge wins in Big 12 play. Now the Red Raiders will try to win their first game in the tournament since Bob Knight was coach when they face the Butler Bulldogs....
Miami had a great season and was in contention for the regular season ACC crown right up until the final weekend of the season. The Hurricanes are 8-3 against this year’s field, with losses coming to Virginia twice and North Carolina, both of which earned No. 1 seeds in the Tournament....
Not satisfied with the Big 12 regular season and tournament championship, the Kansas Jayhawks are looking at the bigger picture. The team is focused, riding a 14-game winning streak into the NCAA Tournament, and will look to buck a trend of early exits when they take on No. 16 Austin Peay in Thursday’s first round....
The Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans actually have one of the best records in America, but many are going to call into question their quality of opponent in the Sun Belt this year. The Purdue Boilermakers made it all the way to the Big Ten Tournament Final, and they played as good of a game against Michigan State when they got there as anyone else has in recent weeks.That's why many believe this game is a romp waiting to happen in the Midwest Region....
It’s been more than a decade since these two teams last met, with the Commodores topping the Shockers 65-63 in a March Madness showdown. This time around, they’re playing for the honor of taking on No. 6 Arizona. Each lost in their conference finals, but strong winning streaks prior to that help make this one of the more intriguing First four tussles in recent history....
Sixty-eight teams will begin warfare for the right to be called National Champions on Tuesday night, and it all gets started with the first of the First Four games between the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights and the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles....
Mark Few's Gonzaga Bulldogs have been the hunted team in the West Coast Conference for years, and they've often been favored in their NCAA Tournament early round games in the process. They took on the role of the hunters in the WCC Tournament this year, ultimately getting the job done against St. Mary's to secure a bid to the dance in the only way possible....
With a showdown against No. 6 Notre Dame on the line, the Wolverines look to leverage their 51-24 NCAA Tournament record as they face a Tulsa team that they match up favorably against....
The Virginia Cavaliers are one of the biggest favorites in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. They're being asked to lay over three touchdowns against the MEAC champion Hampton Pirates in the 1/16 game in the Midwest Region....
The Holy Cross Crusaders have what might be the story of the NCAA Tournament to tell. They were just 10-19 coming into the Patriot League Tournament, and they went just 5-13 in the regular season in conference play. However, they ran the table the hard way, winning four legitimate road games, three of which came as at least nine-point underdogs to clinch a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Can they get to the main bracket?...
The semifinals of the ACC Tournament might provide two of the best matchups we're going to see before the brackets are released and the NCAA Tournament begins. The Virginia Cavaliers are still hanging onto hope to get a No. 1 seed in the dance, and if they can beat the Miami Hurricanes on Friday night to reach the ACC Tournament Final, they've got a really good gripe to do just that even if they don't win on Saturday....
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish had to go on a 14-0 run against Duke to storm back for a victory in overtime in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament on Thursday. Is there anything left in the tank to take on the North Carolina Tar Heels on Friday in the semis?...
The Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans have had their way with the Sun Belt all season long, but there's been one team which has been a consistent thorn in their sides. The Louisiana Monroe Warhawks split the regular season series with the Trojans in what turned out to be two very close games. The rubber match will give one of these teams the Sun Belt's automatic ticket to the NCAA Tournament....
The Texas A&M Aggies are coming off of one of the biggest romps we've seen in conference play this year. They held LSU to just 38 points, the lowest point total for a major conference team in 2015-16. They've got one less step to take to win the SEC Championship Game against the Kentucky Wildcats....
The Texas A&M Aggies might've won the regular season SEC title in part by virtue of their win over the Kentucky Wildcats in College Station. However, the Aggies are entering the SEC Championship Game as the bona fide underdog in what will feel like a road game in Nashville....
It's been over a month since the Michigan State Spartans were last beaten. They've covered 12 of their last 13 games, and that's why they're very likely going to end up as a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament when the brackets are released just hours after their final game of the year regardless as to whether they win or lose the Big Ten Championship Game....
The Hawks already upset top seeded Dayton and will look to take out the No. 2 seed on Sunday to grab the A-10 conference crown. The Rams, however, have the edge in more than just seeding, having beaten St. Joseph’s in their last meeting....
By the time the AAC Championship Game tips off, the Selection Committee will, for all intents and purposes will have the brackets completed. There's still one more fly which could end up in the ointment, though. The Memphis Tigers could play their way into the dance in the most shocking fashion possible, winning three games in three days to capture the AAC title. There will be a lot of bubble teams rooting like heck for the Connecticut Huskies to finish the job they started on Friday to leave that one last slot in the field of 68 open....
Michigan State has climbed back to second in the national rankings with an eight-game winning streak that started immediately after an 82-81 overtime loss at Purdue on Feb. 9. It reached its current level with Saturday’s semifinal win over Maryland. Purdue has five straight wins and has looked more impressive during its Big Ten tournament run....
