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But bragging rights are a powerful thing, and you all know I won’t shut up about it for next year.

The 2017 Big 12 men’s basketball tournament will be played from March 8-11 at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, with the tournament champion receiving the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Meanwhile, instead of a small payout near (or less than) $300,000 for most conferences, they could be making smarter long- and short-term investments by sending their best teams to the NCAA Tournament.

If you’re looking to fill out a March Madness bracket online, ESPN and Yahoo are two platforms that likely come to mind.

We watch a lot of college basketball here at Ralphie Report. The point being; anything can happen in March.

The Rams finished the season as the third-best team in the A-10, and because of that they probably need to at least advance to the conference tournament title game.

In recent years, almost two-thirds of mid- and low-major regular season champs have been left out of the NCAA Tournament. These charitable tournaments, which have raised more than $2.75 million since their inception in 2012, award the winning charity with a $10,000 championship grant. Xavier snapped a six-game losing streak, and a loss to a team like DePaul could prove costly. The Herd defeated the Owls in Florida 89-72 back in January.

Of the 12 8-seeds to advance to the Sweet 16 since 1985, seven went on to advance to the Elite 8 and five advanced to the Final Four. The Orange had lost four of five before their current five-game winning streak. The difference in those games was three-point shooting: Lehigh shot 59% and 47% from outside the arc to 30% and 26% for Bucknell. Now obviously, given the circumstances of the tournament and the sheer number of teams, it would be impossible to have the higher seed in each game play in their respective arena. It has been enough that the future of head coach Bruce Weber is now in question.

“I think it’s only going to be better ’cause instead of just wasting time, you get to the show”.

“I hope not”, Groce said when asked if his team felt added pressure due to those circumstances.

Loop is one three-pointer shy of hitting 100 for this season.

The first problem with the NCAA Tournament is that it completely devalues the regular season.

In less than a week’s time, the NCAA will announce the 68-team field for this year’s edition of March Madness.