Northwestern Earns 1st NCAA Tournament Berth In Program History

Now, with things like ESPN’s Tournament Challenge and CBS Sports’ “March Madness” bracket contests, you can organize your company or friend pool and attract people from all over the world, as long as they have access to the Internet.

UNO earned its berth into the NCAA Tournament by defeating Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in Saturday’s Southland Conference Tournament title game in an overtime thriller that required a double-digit comeback by the Privateers before walking away with a 68-65 victory. Plus, 10-seed Wichita State (30-4) might be the most disrespected team in NCAA tournament seeding history.

Picked to be upset in 1 rd. Who doesn’t love to see a team like Mercer knock off ACC powerhouse Duke?

CBS will broadcast the NCAA Final Four National Semifinals on Saturday, April 1, and then the National Championship on Monday, April 3, for the 35th time.

What team will be wearing the glass slipper? The glory of making the One Shining Moment montage after the championship game. “You’ve just got to play the tournament”. While they are statistically the best defensive team in the nation, their offensive woes have been glaring down the stretch.

Whatever happens from here, their mere presence ensures that these Commodores, seeded ninth in the West Region, will be talked about for years to come because they already have done something no other NCAA Tournament participant has.

For the 2017 NCAA Tournament, Maryland will play in the West Region which includes No. 1 Gonzaga and No. 2 Arizona. Why not. A no. 7 seed cutting down the nets in Phoenix? “I remember the year we went to the Final Four in ’09”. Kansas came out on top of that pile in San Antonio in 2008. Last year they were assigned an 11 seed, but this year most are predicting they could get one of the top lines of the bracket.

Last year, 20 wins were not good enough.

So how do they decide what teams fill out the 36 remaining blanks on the bracket?

But no one was too critical of the top of the tournament, because no one could definitively determine which teams belonged there.

UConn has all the momentum to win another title.

Others are predicting that the Tar Heels could go as far as last season where they made it to the Final Four.

Duke vs. Villanova in the Elite Eight. The Wildcats are 10-1 all-time against the Mountaineers and 1-2 against the Privateer’s. No. 12 seeds accounted for just over a fourth of those by themselves.

The Big East tournament started in a flash for the Cats, who beat St. John’s 108-67, the most points the school has ever scored in a Big East tournament game. Advance all 4-seeds at your own risk. Louisville shot 33.3 percent in 2013.

Favorite: UCLA is a No. 3 seed, but they’ve got No. 1-style talent and scoring.

No. 5 seed Virginia will surely welcome a chance at revenge against Villanova in the Sweet 16 after losing to the Wildcats on the road in January on a buzzer-beating tip-in by Donte DiVincenzo.

Led by the ACC with nine teams, then the Big East and Big Ten with seven each, the six biggest conferences took 32 of the 36 at-large spots this year. These teams did not win their conference titles.

Consider precedent: Of the double-digit seeds only No. 10 (once) and No. 11 (twice) have made it to the Final Four. So consider halting anybody seeded 12 or higher short of that. It’s all here. My question, how much college basketball can I watch in one day without getting in trouble.