Making the tournament was a significant step in the movement last season, but the team then advanced to the Sweet Sixteen, losing to Duke.
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– 1 Kansas vs 16 Austin Peay: The Jayhawks, the tournament’s No. 1 overall seed, open against the Ohio Valley champs as they seek their first national championship since 2008.
“It was exciting for all of us”, Dwayne Benjamin said after learning the team got a one seed. The Wildcats fell to No. 6 and must travel to Providence, R.I. Four of the other six contestants were boosted by the committee, in comparison to Lunardi’s picks, with Oregon State moving up two spots to No. 7. The draw forced more drastic change at the Westgate Las Vegas Superbook.
Michigan State is another popular team being predicted for one of the four top lines.
Oregon, which rose to No. 8 in the AP Top 25 this season, won both the Pac-12 regular season title and the Pac-12 Tournament championship, downing Utah 88-57 on Saturday. With Virginia being in the same region as Michigan State, the Midwest region is going to be an exciting region. Utah also lost to Miami by 24 points on a neutral court in November and by 17 points at Wichita State in December.
NOTES: Oregon’s 28-6 record entering the game is the program’s best after 35 games in 77 years. The most lopsided game in tournament history was Arizona’s 32-point win over Utah in 2014 and UCLA over Oregon State by the same margin in 2006.
Arizona State, also receiving a #2 seed, but in the Sioux Falls Regional that includes #1 seed South Carolina The Sun Devils will first face #15 seed New Mexico State.
“It was just a insane game”, Poeltl said. “Everyone on the committee just does their own thing”.
Since 2002, the earliest data is available, the average No. 1 seed in the tournament had a. 946 rating.
This has been a historic season for the OR men’s basketball team in a number of ways.
The Utes’ defense ranks just outside the top 50 nationally in efficiency and there isn’t a better group in the country at limiting opponent’s free-throw rate (FTA/FGA).
The Ducks are one of the most improbable No. 1 seeds in recent memory.
But bubble teams were very much sweating the outcome of the American Athletic conference tournament, where Memphis tried but failed to beat UConn and squeeze out another bubble team. It prompted Chris Boucher to state the obvious in the locker room afterwards.
“We got to take what we have and put it on ourselves and run with it and and not be scared of it. We are a No. 1 seed”, Brooks said. They have the Mountain West leading scorer in Marvelle Harris and a great point guard in Cezar Guerrero, so that’s a tall task for us to try and defend those two guys – and they multiple other guys, too.
That could potentially create an uncommon scenario where the majority of the public betting action comes in against the No. 1 seed.
If the Pac-12 regular-season and tournament champs keep rolling, they should have plenty more chances to celebrate with their fans. “But their support hasn’t been anything out of the ordinary”.
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OR turned it into a Duck dynasty, putting on a defensive show to sweep conference regular-season and tournament titles for the first time. MGM stands to lose money on its futures if the Spartans prove as capable as bookmakers believe.
