Selection Sunday is here, in spite of everything.
At 6 p. m. At 1 p. m. h. ET, we’re going to locate the 68 teams that make up the bracket for the 2024 NCAA Men’s Tournament. This year, the bubble is absolutely unpredictable.
Three of the top four finishers look solid: Connecticut, Houston and Purdue. There are still doubts about fourth place; Is it North Carolina or a burgeoning state of Iowa that will give the Big 12 a second team in the front row?
However, the bubble is crowded. It fell 3 places on Saturday when 3 “offer thieves” appeared: NC State in the ACC, Oregon in the Pac-12 and UAB or Temple in the American. Teams that felt more confident a few days ago could go with Dayton for the first four. – or out of the tournament altogether.
Here’s what you want to know before Sunday:
The variety show will debut at 6 p. m. h. ET on CBS and possibly also air on NCAA March Madness Live or Paramount. The exhibition will last one hour.
Five convention name games are scheduled for Sunday.
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Teams will be in one of the following 8 venues for the first and second rounds:
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*Teams will participate in a regional in addition to the first two rounds.
A disastrous foul in the final seconds of the Mid-American Conference men’s basketball championship game in Cleveland helped Akron earn the win and most likely lead Kent State to the NCAA tournament.
With one point left in the game, the Kent State Flashes scored on a basket set up by Cli’Ron Hornbeak to take a 61-60 lead with 6. 2 seconds left. Kent State’s Julius Rollins deliberately fouled after the Akron attack, unaware his team was ahead.
Akron’s Greg Tribble then made two fumbles with five seconds left for a 62-61 lead. Kent State’s last-second shot attempt is irrelevant.
“(Rollins) probably thought we were losing by having one,” Kent State coach Rob Senderoff said after the game, when asked about the sequence.
“What I said to (Rollins), right now, is probably the worst thing that’s ever happened to him,” Senderoff continued. “But if that’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you when you’re 50 like me, you’ve lived a pretty lovely life. Tomorrow the sun will rise. It’s going to be a little cloudy for me and our guys. But the sun will rise tomorrow.
He called it a “great game” but said it was “a terrible, complicated way to lose. “
“I feel really bad for our whole team,” Senderoff said.
Senderoff also criticized himself for calling a timeout after Hornbeak’s basket.
“Like I told the team, I called a timeout at that point. I don’t blame Julius,” Senderoff told reporters. There are a hundred games up for grabs, and this was just one of them. “
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Twenty-seven won their convention tournaments, earning automatic bids for the NCAA tournament. Another five will do so before 6 p. m. ET Selection Display.
Here’s who gets in on Sunday:
Selection Sunday is here.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey doesn’t see himself as the commander of the Death Star, finger on the big red button, in a position to destroy the NCAA tournament as we know it. Despite Sankey’s recent comments to ESPN that set off alarm bells about school basketball, he doesn’t foresee a long-term scenario in which the national championship would rely solely on strength convention teams.
“No, I don’t know. Oh, no. That’s an over-interpretation of the comment,” Sankey told The Athletic on Saturday during his league’s semifinals. The comment in question, directed at ESPN’s Pete Thamel, came after Sankey noted that UCLA had made a go from the First Four to the Final Four in 2021 and that Syracuse went from the entry game in Dayton to the Sweet 16 in 2018, demonstrating the possibility of convention groups breaking through the NCAA tournament bubble.
“It just tells you that the bandwidth within the 50 most sensitive leagues is very competitive,” Sankey told Thamel. “We’re offering very competitive opportunities for automatic qualifiers (from smaller leagues), and I think the tension will increase as we have more competitive basketball leagues at best because of the (conference) expansion. “
Next year, the SEC and the big 12 will be 16-team leagues. The Big Ten and ACC will have 18 each.
“I take the example of Ole Miss Baseball – the last team to win a national championship – and baseball is different; it’s really less random than basketball, because you have to win the playoffs and it’s a double elimination,” Sankey said Saturday. “It’s just that we left out some very competitive groups that may justify their participation. That’s part of the review. That deserves to be part of the conversation. Because once again, we continue to upload groups, no one turns out to need it. “We have to deal with the increased volume of Division I groups (there are now 362 groups in D1), so we will have to continue to adapt. I think it’s a healthy conversation. I’m not going to make that decision, but I can actually comment.
Sankey, however, has a vital voice in this process. He leads one of the two toughest leagues in school athletics and co-chaired the NCAA Transformation Committee that last January expanded the NCAA Tournament from its existing 68 teams to an as-yet-unspecified number.
While Sankey doesn’t need to fully participate in the mid-market, his interest in a broader domain is, in fact, not needing to come with more of them. In fact, some in the game worry that regardless of the entry matches, they will exist in the future. It will only be smaller schools battling each other for spots in the classic 64-team format.
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NEW YORK (AP) — As Jaylin Stewart pulled a freshly handed baseball cap to his head, pointing to him as the Big East champion, Alex Karaban came up from behind, grabbed the freshman by the neck and strangled him with a hug. “We won the fucking game,” Karaban said. He beat us to the fucking game. “
The box’s score confirms Karaban’s assessment. But it’s not just the game that shows where Stewart entered a tense, offensive game with UConn leading by two, and in less than 4 minutes, he scored nine points, catapulting the Huskies into a war that ended in a 73-57 victory and that league tournament title. It’s this line: “Substitution OUT: WITH #11 Karaban, Alex; ENTRY: WITH #3 Stewart, Jaylin” – and what Karaban said about it explains what happened.
“I told the coach to let him go,” Karaban said. “It’s killing him. I don’t care, as long as we win. “
Here’s what they tell us about today’s young people, in the age of NIL and the moving portal: they don’t participate for the right reasons; they only care about themselves; The locker rooms are a dysfunctional mess. And here’s Karaban celebrating the guy who knocked him out of the game, and Stewart, a freshman who admits he felt like he was on a smelly roller coaster when he first arrived at Storrs, holding on. It’s not easy at all,” Stewart says. But all those guys believed in me. They and the training staff told me that I had skill and that I could go far. I just had to move on and now here we are. That’s crazy. I never imagined it would be a component of something like this.
As UConn heads into the NCAA Tournament, likely the first defending champion to return to the organization as the No. 1 seed since Villanova in 2017, he will be praised for his effective offense, skill and depth. Everything counts, but nothing more than the Huskies’ disinterest, statistically evident in the 21 assists and 26 baskets made against Marquette; Provide the maximum, particularly in the way Huskies interact with others.
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Temple beat Florida Atlantic, a player in the 2023 Final Four, 74-73 on Saturday to reach the AAC Championship Game and advance to one game of the NCAA Tournament. Temple, seeded No. 11, missed two loose shots in the final 10 seconds. However, he forced a turnover at the end of the timeout to secure the win.
The win comes amid news that a gambling investigation revolves around the show. Temple’s March 7 game opposed to UAB was reported via U. S. Integrity after the betting line advanced by 5. 5 numbers just hours before the announcement. Temple (16-19) went from a 2. 5-point underdog to a seven-point underdog and lost 100-72. In an email to The Athletic earlier this month, U. S. Integrity said it would not comment on an “ongoing investigation. “
Temple will face UAB in a rematch on Sunday, with the winner advancing to the NCAA tournament. Florida Atlantic’s loss will likely also give the AAC a second bid for the tournament and leave a hopeful bubble team without a spot in the draft.
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MINNEAPOLIS – After 3 monotonous days, the Big Ten tournament may have produced the most productive convention game of the week.
Wisconsin’s 76-75 disappointment to No. 1 Purdue in Saturday’s semifinals ended with a lively Target Center on its feet and the Badgers threw themselves to the ground with joy, celebrating the winner of Max Klesmit’s game with five seconds remaining and a no-stop playoff restart. just across the border.
The Badgers have lost 8 of their last 11 games, adding a road loss at Purdue that capped the regular season. Starting with a Maryland choke in Thursday’s second round, the team has been different, and the Boilermakers’ contrarian result reaffirmed that. .
Purdue finished with a 14-point rebounding margin, a 24-5 merit in free-throw line trouble and Zach Edey was able to foul three other Wisconsin big men. . . however, the Badgers persisted. That helped Edey miss much of the first. part after committing a private foul and a technical foul just two minutes later, but the Big Ten Player of the Year had no restrictions after the break. And it wasn’t Edey who made the biggest plays.
Edey, in fact, missed a loose shot with six seconds left in regulation, which would have extended Purdue’s lead to three. On the ensuing possession, Wisconsin guard Chucky Hepburn was able to beat Purdue’s Braden Smith on the rebound and make a whistle-beating layup to send the game into overtime. In the extra session, a three-point play by Edey with 46 seconds left was beaten by another Hepburn drive at the other end, an offensive foul by Smith, and then Klesmit slipped down the aisle and dropped the green light cube.
It’s another March sour note for Purdue, which suffered a loss to No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson in last year’s NCAA Tournament this season, plus a handful of others disappointed by double-digit seeding in recent years. the No. 1 spot in the NCAA Tournament and will almost actually follow a very favorable path through Indianapolis and Detroit in their quest for a spot in the Final Four. We’ll see if the pain of this persists or serves as fuel.
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