Tom Keegan: One of these 13 schools will win the NCAA tournament

These teams won on each other’s floor during the season with Vandy a blown 15-point lead away from sweeping Arkansas. He leads the nations with 13.1 rebounds per game, to go with 15.3 points per game. Khadeen Carrington and Desi Rodriguez average 16.9 and 15.9 points per game, respectively.

Earning a No. 2 seed for the seventh time in program history, Kentucky enters the NCAA Tournament fresh off an 82-65 win over Arkansas (25-9) to seize the Southeastern Conference Tournament championship.

As UK awaits its seeding, regardless of where they are sent, the Cats are going to be one of the top picks to cut down the nets in Phoenix and the team’s confidence is growing heading into the NCAA Tournament. “We came in with the mindset to win this tournament, and we are just going to continue to work hard and allow the success we had in this tournament to carry over”, Corbin Collins added.

To a man, Alabama has no reason to hang its head after losing to a legit Final Four contender and falling to 19-14 overall.

A large majority of those in attendance were clad in red and gold, and it sounded more like the game was played in Iowa State’s Hilton Coliseum rather than a neutral site. You know what happened next.

So what gives NKU the best chance of pulling an upset in the NCAA tournament and extending its record-breaking season? Arkansas looked really strong against a hot Vanderbilt team on Saturday. “Arguably Seton Hall’s best player is center Angel Delgado, a 6’10” junior who averages 15.3 points and 13.1 rebounds per game. The senior sharpshooter leads the SEC in free-throw percentage (89.8) and is fourth in the conference in three-pointers made (69). The pair has helped transform a program that finished 15-17 previous year. They are 5-5 against the spread in their last 10 as well and sit at 17-16 ATS on the season. (Kentucky won 72-68 in a game that was tied with 6 minutes left).

The victor faces either No. 1 seed North Carolina or No. 16 seed Texas Southern. He finished the game with 18 points and was named SEC Tournament MVP.

“These guys know in the foxhole, dude is coming out fighting, he ain’t running”, United Kingdom coach John Calipari said. It was UK’s fifth SEC regular season title in eight seasons under John Calipari. They get early round games close to home, though are in a Kansas City Regional with No. 1 seed Kansas. He’s also only made nine of his last 27 3-point tries. The ball danced around on the rim and finally fell, and the officials spent more than 5 minutes reviewing the shot, ultimately ruling that Sparks’ feet were behind the three-point line.

There was a time a Kentucky-Arkansas championship game in the Southeastern Conference Tournament seemed nearly a given. If Bam Adebayo can continue his recent emergence on the boards and De’Aaron Fox can limit turnovers – he had just one in each of the Wildcats’ past two games – maybe talent can compensate for youth.