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... State because of their experience. He saw the Shockers last year, and it didn’t go well for Arizona. He follows Dayton closely because his brother Archie coaches the Flyers. John Calipari can’t like seeing those two tournament-seasoned mid-majors sitting across from him in the second round. This is No. 7 Dayton’s fourth NCAA tournament in a row and No. 10 Wichita’s sixth straight. It will be a rock fight for Kentucky to get out of Indianapolis. • Play the FOX/SI Bracket Challenge: Get a perfect bracket and win Cousin Sal's house. Upset watch: No. 12 Middle Tennessee State over No. 5 Minnesota. Don’t expect a huge point spread in this game, as Middle Tennessee is one of the country’s best mid-major teams. The Blue Raiders added Arkansas transfer Ja Corey Williams (17.3 points per game) to ...

March Madness Predictions To Help With All Your Bracket Needs

... tournament title. North Carolina looks great. until it faces Duke. Meanwhile, here’s Gonzaga, entering the tournament at 32-1. Is this the year Mark Few’s team finally breaks through to the Final Four. March is wide open once again, as it always is at its best. Last season ended on a 30-foot buzzer-beater in the national title game. What will this tournament offer? We can’t wait to find out. East regional. Villanova gets into the Sweet 16 by taking out Virginia Tech (which beats Wisconsin). Looking for a 12-5 upset? UNC-Wilmington is the pick to take out No. 5 Virginia. In fact, we’re moving UNC-Wilmington into the Sweet 16 after the Seahawks knock off Florida, too. Villanova into the Elite Eight, naturally. Duke knocks off Troy and South Carolina to reach the Sweet 16. SMU beats the winner of USC vs. Providence, then upsets third-seeded Baylor to reach the Sweet 16. Let’s go with SMU over Duke in the Sweet 16. Your Elite Eight matchup: Villanova vs. SMU. The pick is ‘Nova. Midwest regional. Kansas ...

Selection Show Tv, Live Stream Schedule

... basketball tournament as heavy favorites. Shocking, right? The Huskies can extend their title count to 12 by capturing their fifth consecutive national championship and seventh in nine years. It seems safe to say the squad with a 107-game winning streak dating back to 2014 has a good chance of once again running the gauntlet. Yet the Huskies are not the only titan still at the top. Baylor, Notre Dame and North Carolina could all net No. 1 tournament seeds for the second year in a row. One of last year's surprise Final Four participants, Washington, is once again a threat behind espn W Player of the Year Kelsey Plum. The laws of March Madness dictate anything can happen at any time. One bad day can boot a juggernaut and immortalize an underdog tale for the ages. Bubble teams will eagerly watch Monday's selection show in hopes of receiving an opportunity to defy the seemingly insurmountable giant. These rules probably don't apply to a tournament ...

Who’s In Villanova’s Way As March Madness Bracket Is Revealed

... final at Madison Square Garden, setting up a potential matchup of the last two national champions. Before the Blue Devils (27-8) can return to New York, they need to demonstrate that four days of brilliance in the ACC Tournament meant more than four months of underachieving. Before that highly anticipated meeting can occur, Villanova may need to overcome No. 8 Wisconsin, No. 4 Florida and a level of pressure unlike any the school has ever encountered. “Just staying humble,” Villanova coach Jay Wright said when asked about the team’s greatest challenge following its Big East championship win Saturday night. “You get a lot of attention. … Handling all that is going to be the biggest obstacle.”. Duke was thought to be in consideration for a No. 1 seed, but ultimately didn’t even earn the top two-seed in the draw. And despite losing to the Blue Devils twice this season, rival North Carolina (27-7) — last year’s national runner-up — earned the No. 1 seed in the South Region, largely due to its second straight regular-season conference championship. “The process doesn’t start Sunday morning. It starts ...

Villanova Is No. 1 Overall Seed In East Region Of Ncaa Tournament

... in this year’s tournament. The Buccaneers won the Southern conference’s regular season and tournament championships, while Florida has struggled to find consistent production on offense all season. The Gators will defend the hell out of teams, but with a field goal rate at just 45 percent, they’re shooting just 142 nd in the nation. Further on in the deepest region of the tournament field, No. 8 Wisconsin will meet with No. 9 Virginia Tech, pitting together a Big Ten finalist and an upper mid-tier team from the country’s best conference this year. The Hokies went on a tear in the early season, gathering wins over Michigan, Duke, and Syracuse, but faded as their ACC schedule set in, prompting many experts to cool on their standing in the tournament field. No. 3 Baylor played at times lights-out basketball this season, but the Bears faded down the ...

Ncaa Bracket ‘most Competitive’ In His 5 Years

... Join the Conversation. To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs. Hollis: NCAA bracket ‘most competitive’ in his 5 years. Tony Paul, The Detroit News 7:21 p.m. ET March 12, 2017. Mark Hollis, Michigan State’s athletic director, was the chairman of the Selection Committee this year, his fifth overall involved in the selection process for the NCAA Tournament. (Photo: Dale G. Young / Detroit News). CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN COMMENTEMAILMORE. In a rarity, there was very little griping about the NCAA Tournament bracket during Sunday night’s “Selection Show” on CBS. That had to be music to Mark Hollis’ ears. Hollis, Michigan State’s athletic director, was the chairman of the Selection Committee this year, his fifth overall involved in the selection process. “Fortunately, my final year on the committee,” Hollis said on CBS, with a smile. “By far, I can say with 100 ...

Most Likely Teams To Win The 2017 Ncaa Tournament

... Tournament. Here are Bracket Voodoo’s favorites. Parity at the top is the name of this year’s game. Our top three teams all have about a 1-in-7 or 1-in-8 chance of winning the tournament. North Carolina is our pick as the team most likely to take home the hardware (albeit with only a slight edge over Gonzaga and Villanova). This is despite the fact that our Power Rankings have both of those teams above UNC. This is all about path to the championship. UNC has by far the easiest road to the Elite Eight. Our algorithms give UNC a 65 percent chance of getting to the Regional Final (versus 53 percent for Gonzaga and 48 percent for Villanova). According to our numbers, the best team UNC might have to face to get to the Elite Eight is Butler (a team they would be favored to beat by 6-7 points if they ...

Using The Last 10 Years To Predict Upsets

... picks: Either No. 11 Wake Forest or No. 11 Kansas State over Cincinnati. No. 11 Xavier over No. 6 Maryland. Pick three of the eight 10 or 12 seeds. As for the aforementioned No. 12 seeds. They’re 16-24 in the round of 12 in the last 10 years. I’d combine it with another stat. The 10 seeds are 15-25 in that same time period. So I’d take three out of the eight 10 or 12 seeds to advance. A good way to pick which teams is based on their offensive success. Can the team get hot for a game to pull off an upset? This points to No. 10 Oklahoma State. They’re the best team in America in offensive effienciency per Ken __link__. My picks: No. 10 Oklahoma State over No. 7 Michigan. No. 10 Wichita State over No. 7 Dayton. No. 12 Middle Tennessee over No. 5 Minnesota. Pick one of the 13 seeds. On average there are seven double-digit upsets per year. So you still have ...

Does Mathematical Analysis Create A Better March Madness Bracket

... schemes. The results, a sample of which is shown in the table below, were quite good despite all of them having incorrectly predicted Kansas as the national champion. From my students’ analytical brackets, 79 percent were in the top half of all brackets submitted to ESPN with four of them ranking in the top 87 percent. Contrast that with only 50 percent of their "heart" brackets ranking even in the top 50 percent. The top performing student was junior Jordan Saddoris of Ankeny, whose __link__-inspired "head" bracket ranked in the top 92.7 percent, only slightly ahead of my not-too-shabby "heart" bracket. As a result, you don’t necessarily have to rely on analytics to be successful, but doing so does improve your chances. Method and Weighting. As you ponder the options, also consider these fun facts. Since 1979, all but five champions have been No. 1, 2 or 3 seeds. At least one No. 12 seed has won a game in 28 of the 32 tournaments since 1985. In fact, three of four No. 12 seeds won their first-round game three times: 2013, 2009 and ...

The Teams Are Set For 2017 Ncaa Tournament

... Selection Sunday for the NCAA Tournament. 6:30 p.m. PRINTABLE BRACKET. Northwestern basketball coach Chris Collins waved off decades of futility by pumping both fists in the air to celebrate the Wildcats’ first-ever invitation to the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Until Northwestern turned up in the bracket – a No. 8 seed playing No. 9 Vanderbilt in the West Region – Collins alternately sat with arms folded, or his hands clasped, seemingly doing anything to keep from chewing off his fingertips. A roar followed the selection, and then doubled in volume as the CBS selection show cameras showed the largely purple crowd of around 2,000 on their feet and stomping the old bleachers. Welsh-Ryan Arena, the Wildcats home gym, is slated for a floor-to-ceiling renovation beginning Monday. There are some very excited Wildcats fans right now. 6:25 p.m. The West Region of the NCAA Tournament has a decidedly Western feel for a change. Led by West Coast Conference champion Gonzaga and Pac-12 tournament winner Arizona, the top two teams in the West Region are actually from the Western part of the United ...

Our Experts Fill Out March Madness Brackets

... Don't fill out your bracket until you see how our experts filled out theirs. by CBS Sports Staff. 2 h ago. • 4 min read. Download the CBS Sports App  today and get instant tournament news and alerts, plus play  Brackets. Sports Line. Now that the bracket is set, you’ll want to start filling yours in. But before you do, you’ll want to see how the experts filled out theirs. Check out these brackets and see what they think. Matt Norlander. ( Click here to enlarge the bracket ). I had Kansas Jayhawks in October. I had Kansas midway through the season. I have Kansas now. The TCU loss ( Josh Jackson didn’t play in the game) doesn’t scare me. The Jayhawks have the best backcourt in the country in Frank Mason (big-shot maker) and Devonte’ Graham. Jackson’s ready for the NBA right now. Bill Self will win a second national title, it’s just a matter of time. It doesn’t seem like this should be Kansas’ year. The team’s had off-the-court drama throughout. Injuries have shortened the bench. It’s only 10 th at Ken Pom. But I will not bail on the team I picked from the start, which rightfully has a 1 seed. As for my other picks, ...

Click And Print Your Very Own 2017 March Madness Bracket

... men’s bracket was revealed on NCAA Selection Sunday: Northwestern (23-11), who is part of the Big Ten Conference, has earned an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. The program is the last longstanding member of a major conference to reach the Big Dance. Northwestern is seeded eighth in the West Region and will face No. 9 seed Vanderbilt (19-15) on Thursday in Salt Lake City. Joining Northwestern as first-timers in the NCAA tournament this year are the Northern Kentucky Norse, Jacksonville State Gamecocks, North Dakota Fighting Hawks and UC Davis Aggies. The NCAA tournament top overall seed is Villanova (31-3), who dramatically won last year’s national championship when Kris Jenkins hit a three at the buzzer. The Wildcats will play in the East Region. The other No. 1 seeds are Kansas (28-4) ...