A Pac-12 team has yet to win it all in the 21st century and hasn’t since Lute Olson’s Arizona Wildcats in 1997. Washington coach Mike Neighbors said Thursday that tests showed Gilling did not tear her anterior cruciate ligament, but the senior forward/center’s status for Friday’s game remains uncertain.
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Using win probability as the main factor, let’s take a look at the biggest upsets of the weekend. Texas A&M’s Alex Caruso is coming off a 25-point performance in a double-overtime victory over Northern Iowa. The other occasions were Dayton-Stanford in 2014, Virginia Commonwealth-Florida State in 2011 and Providence vs. Tennessee-Chattanooga in 1997. Gonzaga’s Domantas Sabonis is averaging 20 points and 13 rebounds in two tournament games.
The next game tipping off is Texas A&M versus Oklahoma.
There’s a perception that Cinderella is having a grand time at the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. The No. 1 Virginia Cavaliers and No. 4 Iowa State Cyclones tip off the Friday slate at 7:10 p.m. ET.
Although Cal was slated to be without top scorer Ty Wallace and learned right before the start of the game that they would be without junior guard Jabari Bird, Hawaii’s win probability was merely 27 percent to start the contest. What if any starter gets in foul trouble? Just enough to keep the Tar Heels sharp – and then they ran away.
Dana Altman said it’s not fair to judge a league off NCAA tournament results alone, but he understands why some folks criticized the Pac-12’s postseason missteps. It seems impossible that this week possibly could compete with the drama seen in the first week, but the Tournament has taught us too many times that anything can happen.
But things get much tougher against Miami (Fla.) on Thursday.
Dillon Brooks scored 22 points and OR advanced to the brink of its first Final Four in 77 years with an 82-68 victory over defending national champion Duke on Thursday night in the West Region semifinal of the…
However, on the ensuing possession, Lester Medford slipped, turning the ball over to Yale without even attempting a potential game-tying shot.
In the round of 32, after Wisconsin sharpshooter Bronson Koenig hit a tying 3-pointer from well beyond the arc against Xavier, the Badgers drew up another play for him and he buried the game-winner. But if you didn’t, you could grab our PDF and pretend you did! Senior swingman Thomas Walkup led SFA with 33 points and 9 rebounds. While both of those games resulted in losses, facing defenses that ranked within the top 15 of KenPom’s database helped refine a Villanova offense that is now scoring a whopping 1.36 points per possession through the Sweet 16 (three games). And he lost four of the first six games he coached. The win put the Jayhawks back into… The first two rounds of games did little to separate the field of over 175 players. And yes, while excitement was at an historic high during the first weekend, one look at the Sweet 16 matchups illustrates that there’s a healthy amount of chalk remaining – namely with the No. 1 seeds. Although they held the lead for the entire time up to this point, MTSU’s win probability did not eclipse 50 percent until they grabbed an 8-point lead at the halfway point of the second half. Unfortunately, many of those players have Michigan State or Kentucky winning it all.
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OPPOSITES ATTRACT: When Virginia and Iowa State meet Friday, it’s going to be the deliberate, defensive style of Virginia against a team that loves to score and can’t wait to get the ball moving in transition.
