Final Four

Kentucky To Face North Carolina Sunday

... Elite 8 Bound: Kentucky to face North Carolina Sunday. Updated: 6:47 PM EDT Mar 25, 2017. {copy Shortcut} to copy Link copied. MEMPHIS —. WHO: Kentucky vs. North Carolina. WHAT: Elite 8, South Region Final. WHEN: Sunday 5:05 pm. WHERE: CBS, WLKY-32. Kentucky basketball is one win from the Final Four and three wins from a 9 th national championship. De'Aaron Fox has been UK basketball's rock - Mr. Dependable – and has upped his game in the postseason. In his last six games, Fox has averaged 23 points a game, including 39 points in Kentucky’s NCAA Tournament South Region Semifinal with UCLA. It was a career high, and the fourth most points scored in an NCAA tournament game in Wildcats history - also the most ever for a freshman in the history of the tournament by any school. Malik Monk is UK’s leading scorer, averaging 20 points a game. UK fans ready for Elite 8 match-up. ...

Predicting Last 2 Teams For Updated Bracket

... basketball reference. College B-Ball Ref @collegebb_ref. Most Ws at current school by a coach, w/o a #Final Four: Bob Mc Killop (Davidson): 533 Mark Few (@Zag MBB): 501 __link__/n 02 qs 1 o 0 Jy __link__/ph Jndc 5 Oq 4. 3/25/2017, 4:20:11 PM. Few’s 502 nd win goes down as his most important victory in the program’s history as Gonzaga clinched its first-ever Final Four spot. The Bulldogs broke Northwestern's hearts in the round of 32, survived West Virginia’s press defense in a physical matchup and jumped out quickly on upset-hungry Xavier to earn their spot in Arizona. Typically, the Bulldogs attack the paint and chip away with mid-range jump shots. On Saturday, guards Nigel Williams-Goss and Josh Perkins erupted from three-point land; they combined for 7-of-14 from distance. With the added boost in triples, Xavier didn’t stand a chance. NCAA March Madness @marchmadness. 3/26/2017, 12:34:39 AM. Most people will talk about an easy pathway to the title game for Gonzaga without Duke or Villanova coming out of the East Region. However, Few's team is playing on another level during the tournament. Florida’s pace and defensive prowess would likely pose a ...

South Carolina, Gonzaga, Oregon And North Carolina

... Final Four is set: South Carolina, Gonzaga, Oregon and North Carolina. Posted: 6:27 PM, March 26, 2017. Updated: 7:52 PM, March 26, 2017. Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images. The NCAA Final Four is set, and the semifinals will include both South and North Carolina. The seventh-seeded Gamecocks have earned their first berth in the national semifinals, while the No. 1 Tar Heels have advanced this far for the 20 th time. Sindarius Thornwell scored 26 points and hit the go-ahead free throws that put No. 4 South Carolina ahead to stay in a 77-70 triumph over the fourth-seeded Florida Gators. There were 14 lead changes and 10 ties until Thornwell drained two free throws to put the Gamecocks ahead 65-63 with 2:24 remaining. The East Regional MVP followed the foul shots with a nice assist to Maik Kotsar and a steal with 40 seconds left to help South ...

The Moment That Brought Each Team To The Final Four

... seriously injured. The 6-foot-10 senior forward - the team's leading shot blocker, second leading rebounder and third leading scorer - still went on to play 12 more minutes in the second half. When a postgame MRI revealed a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, his season was officially over. Playing Tournament Challenge? Don't forget to check your brackets! Bracket busted? We have you covered with a Second Chance Bracket. And Oregon's Final Four hopes could have gone with it. Defensively the Ducks were the No. 1 team in the nation in percentage of blocked shots. Boucher led the Pac-12 and was 15 th nationally averaging 2.6 blocked shots per game. The moment the Ducks became a Final Four team was the moment they rallied around Boucher's injury rather than ran from it. "I said at the beginning we would win with me or without me," Boucher said. "A lot of people said it won't happen, but we compete. It's always next man. Everybody's ...

The Final Four Of Never, Never, Almost Never And North Carolina

... championship in 1939 in Evanston, Illinois; ironically, at Northwestern, the school that until this year couldn't get to the party it first hosted. Eight teams reluctantly agreed to participate in the newfangled tourney. The Webfoots, nicknamed the "Tall Firs," won the championship. We know them as the Oregon Ducks. They've spent the past 78 years designing new uniforms and cornering the Nike market, and were the only school that had a booster (Phil Knight) climb the ladder to snip a piece of the net. But cool unis do not necessarily beget basketball results. Oregon's drought had stretched the entire history of the sport. Playing Tournament Challenge? Don't forget to check your brackets! Bracket busted? We have you covered with a Second Chance Bracket. "1939 was a long time ago,' Altman said in a Captain Obvious moment after the Ducks upset No. 1 seed Kansas to move on. So comparatively, 366 days is not all that long ago. That's all it has been since the Tar Heels last won an Elite Eight game. But their wait also felt endless, considering what happened in Houston a year ago, when Villanova's Kris Jenkins broke North Carolina's heart with a buzzer-beater to win the national ...

Oregon Women Need Monumental Upset To Reach Final Four

... head coach Kelly Graves, far left, celebrates in the locker room with his team after Saturday's upset victory in the women's NCAA Tournament. (Photo courtesy of @Oregon Pit Crew). For that to happen, they would have to pull off one of the greatest upsets in women's basketball history, knocking off No. 1 UConn on Monday night in the Bridgeport Regional final. MONDAY'S GAME. No. 10 Oregon (23-13) vs. No. 1 UConn (35-0). 4:06 p.m., ESPN. "I tell you, I wouldn't mind if I had that problem and had to miss the men's Final Four," Graves said smiling. "I'd gladly take the hit financially.". Graves knows his team will need to be at its best to pull off the win. "It's going to take our absolute best. There's no doubt about it, and we've got to play for 40 minutes," he said. "You know, watching them play and what Coach ...

One Carolina Tweets Politely, The Other Gets Cocky

... to Twitter to promise death of Obamacare. During the game, the USC feed was offering this about its game against Florida: "Scale from 1-10, how shook is Florida rn?" This was accompanied by a poll in which 74 percent of people decided that, stunningly, Florida was, um, shook to the max. When victory was complete, the USC tweeters had their most cocky hurrah with a pinned tweet at the very top of the feed. "Oops, again. #Gamecocks #Final Four," it read , together with a graphic showing the ESPN experts giving the team only a 20.2 percent chance of winning. The two Carolinas aren't destined to meet in the semifinals. One can only imagine the goading that might occur, however, should both teams reach the final game. Special Reports : All of CNET's most in-depth features in one easy spot. It's Complicated : This is dating in the age of apps. Having fun yet? These stories get to the heart of the ...

South Carolina Defeats Florida For First Final Four Berth

... the second round of the 2017 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at Bon Secours Wellness Arena on March 19, 2017 in Greenville, South Carolina. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images). TULSA, OK - MARCH 19: Johnathan Motley #5 of the Baylor Bears reacts against the USC Trojans during the second round of the 2017 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at BOK Center on March 19, 2017 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Photo by J Pat Carter/Getty Images). SACRAMENTO, CA - MARCH 19: Dylan Ennis #31 of the Oregon Ducks reacts against the Rhode Island Rams during the second round of the 2017 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at Golden 1 Center on March 19, 2017 in Sacramento, California. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images). GREENVILLE, SC - MARCH 19: Dusty Hannahs #3 of the Arkansas Razorbacks reacts after being defeated by the North Carolina Tar Heels 72-65 in the second round of the 2017 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at Bon Secours Wellness Arena on ...

Mississippi State Advances To Final Four

... Mississippi State won 94-85. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams). Alonzo Adams, AP. Mississippi State head coach Vic Schaefer holds up the championship trophy as he celebrates with his team after a regional final of the NCAA women's college basketball tournament against Baylor, Sunday, March 26, 2017, in Oklahoma City. Mississippi State won 94-85. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams). Mississippi State's Chinwe Okorie (45) celebrates after a regional final of the NCAA women's college basketball tournament against Baylor, Sunday, March 26, 2017, in Oklahoma City. Mississippi State won 94-85. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams). Alonzo Adams, AP. Mississippi State's Morgan William celebrates with Breanna Richardson (3) after a regional final of the NCAA women's college basketball tournament against Baylor, Sunday, March 26, 2017, in Oklahoma City. Mississippi State won 94-85. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams). Alonzo Adams, AP. Mississippi State's Morgan William (2) shoots during the second half of a regional final of the NCAA women's college basketball tournament against Baylor, Sunday, March 26, 2017, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams). Alonzo Adams, AP. Baylor's Beatrice Mompremier (32) blocks a shot by ...

Oregon Ducks Final Four Appearance Is Lining The Pac 12's Pockets

... to be rooting for the Ducks in the Final Four. Here's the simple answer: money. It pays when teams in your conference do well, and that money is evenly split among the conference members. In fact, the NCAA annually distributes more than $200 million to the respective conferences that appear in the Big Dance. That's why getting multiple teams into the bracket is advantageous for a given conference. And it's why winning big can be lucrative. Here's how it works. - Conferences receive a basketball "unit" for every NCAA Tournament game played by one of its teams. You play a first round game? You get one unit. You make the Final Four? You get five units. (The championship game is not counted.) So five units is the most any one program can attain for the conference, and that's what Oregon is going to get this season. - A unit won in this tournament is ...

The Final Four In Arizona Is Set

... Mykhailiuk (10) defend during the first half in the finals of the Midwest Regional of the 2017 NCAA Tournament at Sprint Center. Denny Medley, USA TODAY Sports. Kansas Jayhawks guard Josh Jackson (11) goes up for a shot as Oregon Ducks forward Jordan Bell (1) defends during the first half in the finals of the Midwest Regional of the 2017 NCAA Tournament at Sprint Center. Jay Biggerstaff, USA TODAY Sports. Gonzaga Bulldogs head coach Mark Few waves to the crowd after cutting down the net after defeating the Xavier Musketeers in the finals of the West Regional of the 2017 NCAA Tournament at SAP Center. Kyle Terada, USA TODAY Sports. Gonzaga Bulldogs guard Nigel Williams-Goss (5) celebrates with fans after defeating the Xavier Musketeers in the finals of the West Regional of the 2017 NCAA Tournament at SAP Center. Kyle Terada, USA TODAY Sports. Gonzaga Bulldogs head coach Mark Few and his players celebrate with the trophy ...