“It’ll be tough, but we’ve been tested – battle-tested”. “I am really pleased with where we are and how focused we are”. No league team has advanced that far in the tournament since those schools in 2012.
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Injured senior Mackenzie Loesing made a decision to buy rings for all the players and coaches in honor of the Bulls winning the Mid-American Conference Tournament last weekend and getting an automatic berth in the tournament. The Jayhawks open play against 16th-seeded Austin Peay on Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa, as they chase a second championship under coach Bill Self and first since 2008.
Joining the Huskies as the other No. 1 seeds are South Carolina, Notre Dame and Baylor.
UNC is the first 1-seed that wasn’t above. This time around, he has what could be his most impressive team yet, one led by senior Denzel Valentine.
Buddy Hield, Oklahoma. National player of the year front-runner, seems to get better at the biggest moments. But they were favored to do so the past two years, too, and were ousted by Stanford and Wichita State before they could even think about playing for a championship.
If it does beat Tennessee, it still might have to play No. 2 seed Arizona State in a second-round game.
That made for a lot of agonizing as teams waited to see where and when they were going to play – or if they were in at all.
The ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12 each received seven bids, meaning that 24 of the 36 at-large bids went to schools from those four major conferences.
“That would be a game we were playing to get to the Final Four, so if we get to that game, I will answer all your questions about all that stuff”, Bennett said.
UConn is expected to be the top overall seed in the women’s NCAA Tournament.
Florida State former player forward Gabby Bevillard (left) and guard Brittany Brown (12) and forward Shakayla Thomas (20) celebrate following the Seminoles 65-47 victory over the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles during the second half of a game in the second round of the 2015 NCAA Tournament at the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center.
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Entering the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament, odds to come out on top were not favoring head coach Dave Loos and Austin Peay. I’m able to put the ball on the floor more and play on the perimeter some.
“The last two years we lost in the Round of 32 and I don’t think we performed particularly well, but I also know that our teams weren’t whole either”, Self said. Just curious: Did members actually watch Vandy get dumped out of the SEC tournament on the first day by below-.500 Tennessee?
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GOODBYE TOBACCO ROAD: For the first time since 1988, Duke, North Carolina and N.C. State all missed the tournament. The Hawkeyes, who went one-and-done in the Big Ten Tournament, are down to their last chance to stop that slide when they face 10th-seeded Temple (21-11) on Friday in Brooklyn.
