Selection Sunday A Big Day For 3 Local Teams

Las Vegas quickly weighed in and made the ACC Tournament champion Blue Devils the favorite at 5-to-1. At least they have odds.

Nova won four of their last five games by double figures, ending the regular season with a 16-point win over nationally-ranked Creighton before crushing rival Georgetown by 26 points on the road. Kentucky will win and then could face Wichita State in the second round in a rematch from 2014, when Kentucky ended Wichita’s undefeated season.

The “First Four” play-in games will take place Tuesday and Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio. The No. 1 seed’s record in those games is 115-13.

Texas State came up just a touch short.

The Tar Heels have earned the No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament for a record 16th time and the seventh under Williams. But in defense of the selection committee, if a team is underseeded, by absolute definition a fellow team has to be overseeded. Top-seeded Kansas will have a home-state edge if it makes it to the regional in Kansas City, Missouri.

There are few certainties in March Madness, but one story line that plays out nearly every year is a No. 12 seed upsetting a No. 5 seed during the tournament’s round of 64.

The first-round games include … Louisville and OR are the No. 2 and 3 seeds in the Midwest.

We all know the blue blood programs like Kentucky, Duke and Kansas are expected to make deep runs in this year’s NCAA Tournament, but which teams from mid-major conferences are most likely to take down higher seeds? The league placed four teams among the top 12 seeds – South No. 1 North Carolina, Midwest No. 2 Louisville, East No. 2 Duke and West No. 3 Florida State.

Considering the average cost for a year’s tuition is $9,650 for public schools and $33,480 for private schools, those application increases lead to big money for schools.

It didn’t work out in the Dukies’ favor, as they ended up with a No. 2 seed, but Vegas wasn’t fooled by the number in front of their name. They won their first game in the 2016 quarterfinals before a loss in the semifinals to eventual champion North Carolina.

The Duke and North Carolina debate is what is going to ultimately drive the No. 1 seed discussion over these next few weeks since the committee had three relatively easy selections. “But they couldn’t go further than No. 2”. There were a lot of ups and downs to get to this point.

And now Allen and Duke hope to send another message as the NCAA Tournament begins this week, and they have plenty of ammunition. Either Duke or North Carolina have played in the final every year since 1997, including a duel in the 2011 championship game that was won by Duke. No team has won consecutive titles since Florida did it in 2006 and 2007, but the Wildcats might have the best chance of any team of the past decade to do so. The Boilers getting a top-four seed after the Big Ten was shut out of February’s seeding reveal is proof that winning a regular-season title matters.

“That became a theme”, Hollis said of Syracuse. “They struggled away from home, and their non-conference schedule was not that hard yet they still struggled with that”.

As a result of the 30-4 Wichita State Shockers receiving a No. 10 seed in the 2017 NCAA tournament, they seem to be the talk of the bracket.