Notre Dame’s first and second round games have been the first two career starts for sophomore Matt Farrell.
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Over the next two nights, eight games will be played in the NCAA Tournament. “If we play Villanova basketball for 40 minutes, we’ll be successful and there will be a good result in the end”, senior guard Ryan Arcidiacono said. Gonzaga plays against Syracuse in a regional semifinal game in the NCAA Tournament on Friday. Now we rest for a couple of days and watch the teams that survived to the sweet 16. Respective regular season conference champions North Carolina (ACC) and Indiana (Big Ten) might be the best matchup in the Sweet 16.
Gonzaga is the only mid-major remaining, but no one considers Mark Few’s program a Cinderella anymore. In the South, No. 2 seed Villanova is a four-point favorite over Jim Larranaga’s third-seeded Miami Hurricanes. Come knock the Jayhawks off the hill. Though the Hurricanes almost gave up a massive comeback to recent tourney darlings Wichita State, they more than earned their way into tonight’s opener.
Virginia. Finding offense always the key; Cavs can defend anyone, anywhere.
If you are looking to support your fellow conference members, you’ve got only one choice, Oregon.
Villanova will play either top-seeded Kansas or No. 5 seed Maryland on Saturday.
Malcolm Brogdon, Virginia. Stat-sheet filler could have the Cavaliers headed toward the Final Four.
No. 1 North Carolina vs. No. 5 Indiana – The Hoosiers are good, really good. Will it be Malcolm Brogdon or Georges Niang? “But we were actually more productive when we were doing what we wanted to, instead of alt-tabbing [to close streaming windows before bosses could see them] or watching on our phones”. In 1981, IN won the national title by beating the Tar Heels 63-50.
#4 Duke vs #1 Oregon: An interesting finish to the day. An East Coast stalwart against an up-and-comer from the West. What’s not to like? The teams meet Friday in the Midwest Regional.
#3 Texas A&M vs #2 Oklahoma: This game has a lot more to do with how Oklahoma fair offensively than anything the Aggies can do.
UCLA: The Bruins are in the Sweet 16 for the first time in 17 years thanks to guard Jordin Canada.
Now, they’re living up to their billing as one of the nation’s best teams, a status they’ve claimed for most of the season on both offense and defense. Wisconsin is in their first season without legendary coach Bo Ryan and a year removed from having star player Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker.
30_Wins by OR this season, matching the school record set in 1945. 879 winning percentage is best in NCAA Division I in that span. “But I’m very proud of the second-half defense”. Because of his Average Joe appearance, Happ probably would not be the No. 1 pick at a rec center pickup game, but his looks are deceiving.
Rodriguez (12.6 ppg, 4.4 apg) makes this team go, and he’s playing like one of the best guards in the country right now.
The NCAA Tournament has turned into an expanded version of ACC Tournament. Grayson Allen and Brandon Ingram need to keep it up, but against a long, athletic OR team, their jump shooting ways might be more hard to implement, and getting into offensive stagnation like they did in the previous games could be costly this time.
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With the rules relaxed, one employee – a big Michigan State fan – watched the Spartans’ games but had no interest in any of the other teams in the tournament. In a postseason where the quality of the Pac-12 is being questioned, OR is the conference’s last hope.
