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Selection Sunday has come and gone, and we now know how the seeds fall in the bracket for the 68 teams in this year s NCAA men s basketball tournament. (You can view the bracket in its entirety here
With the continued COVID-19 protocols in place, some things will look different in this year s tournament. The most obvious change is that the entire thing will be held in Indiana. But the bracket was designed differently this year, as well.
The top four seeds and the First Four will be treated the same as in previous years. But the rest of the bracket will be filled in using the S-curve. What does that mean? Teams placement in the bracket is based on rankings without regard to geography. So the overall No. 5 seed (the top No. 2 seed) will be in the same region as the overall No. 4 seed (the final No. 1 seed), and so on. There are 37 at-large selections (one more than usual) and 31 automatic qualifiers (one fewer than usual, as the Ivy League
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Somewhere between trudging off the floor losers at Auburn two weekends ago and repeating the exercise last Saturday at the SEC tournament, Tennessee became a different men’s basketball team.
“The competitiveness that we’re playing with and the determination and the prep in the last really two weeks has really gone to a level that we’re excited about,” UT’s coach said after Saturday’s 73-68 loss to Alabama in the SEC semifinals.
In the same postmortem, Barnes looked ahead to the NCAA tournament and said, “I like where our team is right now.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) George McGinnis remembers every detail from that night he listened to the Indiana state basketball championship in the parking lot of Hinkle Fieldhouse. It was 1966, and.
No. 2 Alabama to Face No. 15 Iona in March Madness First Round
For the first time since 2018, the Alabama Crimson Tide (24-6) will prepare to face an opponent in the first round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
The No. 2 seed Crimson Tide travels to the March Madness facilities in Indianapolis to take on the No. 15 seed Iona Gaels in the East region bracket.
Led by former Louisville head coach Rick Pitino, the Gaels went 12-5 in a season marred by COVID-19 cancellations at the beginning and end of their season. The Gaels responded convincingly, capping the season by winning the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament and clinching a spot in the NCAA Tournament.