Virginia Tech Selected For 2017 NCAA Tournament

They will play Friday in Indianapolis, but officials have not released the time for their game.

The book on Michigan State’s Tom Izzo is written: he went into the Hall of Fame previous year and is one of the best coaches in NCAA Tournament history with seven trips to the Final Four and a national championship in 2000.

Star guard Donovan Mitchell has had a breakout season for the Cardinals, leading the team in scoring, steals, three-pointers and minutes played.

“I am proud of our guys and how they battle”, Wisconsin coach Greg Gard said.

We will see if they can keep the momentum going in the NCAA Tourney this coming weekend. “They have Final Four experience”.

Despite this, MI was slotted as an 8-seed and, still, no one thought they would make a tournament run.

But Wisconsin knows it has more hoops ahead. The Badgers have been playing very well down the stretch, however, and are well rested despite playing two games in two days.

“We’ve been on big stages the whole year”, LeDay said. A month earlier, Beilein said his team needed an “outlier”, someone to elevate his game and, in turn, the team. With the emergence of Wilson and sophomore center Moritz Wagner, Beilein starts five players who can shoot from the outside, which really puts a strain on opposing defenses. It wasn’t an undeserved status as the No. 8 seed in a year when the Big Ten wasn’t as strong as it usually is.

They also defeated No. 1 seed North Carolina, No. 2 seed Duke and No. 5 seed Virginia during the ACC regular season before losing to the Tar Heels in the league tournament. Should the Cards advance to the Sweet 16 they will play in Kansas City the following week.

In defeat, Wisconsin becomes more interesting heading into the NCAA tournament.

About 2,000 fans turned out at Cassell Coliseum to watch the selection show with the Hokies.

Over on the Virginia Tech side, they’re sitting at 22-10 overall this season.

“I was about to lean back in my seat and I was like, ‘Oh, Virginia Tech, ‘” Bibbs said. And teams always want to play well on national TV.

More than 100 members of Michigan’s traveling party — players, coaches, cheerleaders, others — were evacuated from their plane after it failed to take flight and slid through a fence Wednesday.

But the end of the conference tournament isn’t the end of the world, nor is it the end of the season. All of the adversity that we’ve been to throughout the whole tournament. “Everyone’s just excited and happy”.