NCAA Tournament: 5 Players To Watch For In East Region

“I don’t know if we’re better”, Big East player of the year Josh Hart said.

If you’re a Duke fan, $260 to watch your team eat Troy’s lunch might be worth it. It failed to get through the first weekend of the NCAAs for five consecutive tournaments, plus a 13-19 season in which the Wildcats weren’t invited. If a team beats us, then we’ll tip our hats to them. If SMU is going to make a run, Ojeleye will be the one making things happen. The cameras may need to stay on wide angles to keep track of these frenetic teams. Arkansas transfer was the Conference-USA player of the year after averaging 17.3 points and 7.3 rebounds. Best coach We start with an easy one.

Here’s a ranking of every coach in the field of 68 this year. Despite the tenacious defensive efforts, the Cavaliers lack a true post threat, putting a ton of pressure on their guards.

Beyond that, the anointment of the top seeds, and of the seeding of the entire tournament, for that matter, is nothing more than conversation fodder between Selection Sunday and Tip-off Thursday, except to the unfortunates sentenced to Dayton for further examination through the NCAA peephole before gaining access. The Badgers’ shooting woes led to the struggle down the stretch. Duke started slow and ended strong.

The SEC schools. Yup, Florida and SC are the pretenders in the Eastern Regional.

Don’t expect an answer from them, but it’s finally time to find out. But all in all, the season was quite unpredictable, which sets us up for what looks to be an exciting and outrageous NCAA Tournament. “You put a team at “8” that shouldn’t be there, and the “1” looks at it like, ‘Why are we playing this team?'”

Virginia Tech is the Eastern Regional’s sleeper.

Florida State (25-8) remained at No. 16, just ahead of Iowa State (23-10), which jumped up six spots after winning the Big 12 tournament. Having to vacate Final Four honors at two different schools takes a special kind of coach, and maybe the tournament committee never quite forgets that.

When Hart, the Big East Player of the Year, was asked if he felt there was a target on Villanova’s collective backs as defending champions, he responded, “There’s a target on everyone’s back in this tournament”.

For all the worry about losing Daniel Ochefu’s rim protection – Villanova’s defense is statistically inferior to last season’s group – things are trending up at the right time. However, 3 great days does not erase 3 months of inconsistent play. He leads the Gamecocks in minutes per game (34.1), scoring (21.2), rebounding (7.2), and steals (2.2). The Blue Devils had the most losses against top-50 teams, but also the most wins, and I think that this was overlooked.

No5 Virginia v No12 UNC-Wilmington. Villanova plays Mt. St. Mary’s. Yes, SMU will upset Baylor in the round of 32.

In a matchup for the ages, the UCLA Bruins outlast Villanova in a hard fought battle to earn their 12th NCAA Championship behind efforts from star freshmen Lonzo Ball and TJ Leaf.

MM: Villanova will not make the Elite Eight. That decades-old CBS slogan, “The Road to the Final Four”? The Blue Devils have the more talented roster, but the Wildcats are for more experienced and consistent.

Should Villanova not make history by losing its first-round game, it would face the victor of eighth-seeded Wisconsin and No. 9 Virginia Tech.