Espn Bracket

New Record Set For Number Of Brackets Submitted

... based on bracket selections is North Carolina with 14.90 percent. Here are the other No. 1 seeds. Villanova: 13.10 percent. Kansas: 11.40 percent. Gonzaga: 8.42 percent. Duke, the No. 2 seed in the East region, is the No. 3 most popular pick right now at 12.23 percent to win the national championship. The most popular Final Four combination is No. 2 Arizona (38.40 percent believe it will get that far), No. 1 Villanova (41.34 percent), No. 1 Kansas (49.77 percent) and No. 1 North Carolina (42.69 percent). The closest first-round matchup is Vanderbilt (50.19 percent) over No. 8 Northwestern (49.81 percent). Lower-seeded teams that America believes will win their first matchup. No. 9 Seton Hall (50.46 percent) over No. 8 Arkansas (49.54 percent). No. 9 Vanderbilt (50.19 percent) over No. 8 Northwestern (49.81 percent). No. 10 Wichita State (65.43 percent) over No. 7 Dayton (34.57 ...

Breaking Down The Women's Bracket

... near-annual tradition of ignoring collected wisdom about a mid-major, saying instead that a team ranked No. 20 in the AP Poll is no better than the 37 th-best team in the bracket. Then they doubled down by forcing Drake to play on Kansas State's home court in the first round. - Hays. Michigan: The committee actually seemed to send the entire Big Ten a message with this bracket: You're not very good. The Wolverines finished third at 11-5 in the league, 22-9 overall, but didn't make the field. - Voepel. Biggest surprise. Drake and Northern Iowa earning the same seed: It's hard to believe Drake's dominance of the MVC and of UNI didn't earn a better seed than the same No. 10 seed awarded to the Panthers. - Creme. Northern Iowa: It's a pleasant surprise - and a puzzler given Drake's fate. Northern Iowa had the misfortune of playing in the same ...

Alabama Wins 64-team College Football Bracket

... got the College Football Playoff, but now we're getting greedy. Using the 2017 preseason FPI, we get down to the Sweet 16 in a true version of gridiron madness. 1 Related. So we're going to take a page out of Washington State coach Mike Leach's playbook and create our own version of March Madness in football. Leach has suggested that college football should reduce the number of regular-season games to 10 and use a 64-team field to decide the national championship. We've heeded his call and, using ESPN's preseason FPI rankings as a guide, we've seeded the teams from 1 to 64 and will play out the 2017 postseason round by round, just as they do in hoops. After cutting it down to the Sweet 16 on Monday and the final four on Tuesday, we crown our champion today. Is another national championship celebration in Nick Saban's immediate future. Matthew Emmons/USA TODAY Sports. Final Four. (1) Florida State 30, (3) USC 27: There has never been any doubt about Deondre Francois ' toughness. In the opener of the two ...

What Would Happen In A 64-team College Football Bracket

... see coming. The Panthers do it for a second straight game, again thanks to their defense and forcing timely turnovers. The concern now at Pitt will be holding on to Narduzzi. (4) Georgia 42, (12) Texas Tech 31: The Bulldogs brought Kirby Smart back to his alma mater to win championships, and he moves another stop closer to that goal when Georgia jumps out to a four-touchdown lead and then seals the game with its punishing running game. Regional semifinals. (1) Florida State vs. (4) Georgia. (7) Washington State vs. (11) Pittsburgh. Alabama looks to make it to a third consecutive national title game in 2017. Brett Rojo/USA TODAY Sports. South region. (1) Alabama 34, (16) San Diego State 0: Brian Daboll is the Crimson Tide's fifth offensive coordinator since the conclusion of the 2011 season, when Jim Mc Elwain left ...

Intersport And Espn Announce New Original Series Bracket Genius

... of three undergraduate students, against one another in a bracket-style competition for the chance to have their team crowned the inaugural Bracket Genius Champion and share the prize of $100,000. The final 16 universities represented on the hardwood will match up in the same head-to-head games on Bracket Genius where the winner advances by answering questions spanning history, geography, politics, literature, science, pop culture, the arts and sports in a race to score as many points as possible against the clock and their opponent. “Every March, college basketball fans are entertained by the athletic genius displayed by their favorite players on the game’s biggest stage,” said Intersport’s Executive Producer John Paquet. “The Bracket Genius platform captures that excitement and provides fans yet another reason to cheer for their favorite college or university while celebrating academics and championing the everyday college student.”. Trey Wingo’s unique combination of wit and humor and his experience hosting a diverse array of marquee ...

Vote For The Best Fight Of All Time

... improbable five-round draws you'll ever see. A 25-minute heavyweight slugfest that seemingly defied the laws of science. How did neither one go out? We may never know. No. 3 seed: The back-and-forth warfare of this bout has developed something of a cult following. There were guts displayed. Lots of guts. No. 14 seed: When Diego Sanchez dropped Gilbert Melendez in the third round, the roof nearly came off in Houston. UFC president Dana White was so excited, he literally ran around the Octagon at the conclusion of the fight. No. 4 seed: Chael Sonnen talked the talk and then walked the walk better than just about anyone thought he would - right up until that instant-classic fifth-round Anderson Silva triangle. No. 13 seed: The backstory to this rivalry was incredible. Mc Gregor's obsession over the first loss. Diaz's disgruntlement with how the UFC portrayed it. Culminating in a five-rounder for the ages. No. 5 seed: One of the most lopsided first rounds in MMA history, followed by one of the most amazing four-round comebacks in MMA history. No. 12 seed: The Brock ...

Unc Is Now Brackets' Top Pick To Win It All

... the nets in more than 3 percent of brackets. Our players have upsets on the brain in the first round, as Wichita State remains a favorite over Dayton (64.95 percent pick the Shockers), while Marquette, Michigan State and Seton Hall are all picked in a majority of brackets as lower seeds than their opponents. Tournament Challenge entrants also see a few Cinderella runs to the Sweet 16 as Xavier, Wichita State and Rhode Island are picked to make the second weekend in more than 10 percent of brackets. No. 14 Florida Gulf Coast is a Sweet 16 pick in more than 7 percent of brackets, which is more than Michigan State, Northwestern and Miami, among others. And in case you were wondering … with both Duke and UNC among the top five picks to win it all, there are plenty of brackets that have these ...

Puzzling Decisions Sprinkled Throughout Women's Ncaa Bracket

... up or down one seed line. If that's what happened, it could have been done better. Cal was one of the last four teams included in the bracket, so its original seed was a No. 10, as was Oregon's. Because of the areas on the bracket of the other Pac-12 teams, one of them had to be bumped to a No. 9 to prevent conference matchups before the Elite Eight. The Ducks, as the higher-ranked team on the S-curve, should have been that team. As a result, Oregon gets a trip to Durham, North Carolina, three time zones away and one of the longest distances any team in the tournament will travel, and the Bears are sent to much closer Waco, Texas. Drake vs. Northern Iowa: If regular-season performance within league play did matter, it's difficult to rationalize the committee's decision to have Northern Iowa and Drake both on the ...

Five Questions Off Women's Ncaa Bracket

... City Region, topped by Baylor, will be tested while Andy Landers calls it "loaded." (1:28). The NCAA tournament provides the answers. Until the games begin, we're here to supply the questions. 1. How long will the tournament's other headliner be around. With apologies to Baylor, Notre Dame and South Carolina, No. 1 seeds all, there are two main acts in women's basketball at the moment. One is Connecticut and its pursuit of a fifth consecutive national title, 113 consecutive wins and perhaps some viticulture awards for Geno Auriemma. The other is whether someone who has already scored more points than any player in college basketball history can score sufficiently more points to again borrow some of the Final Four spotlight from those other Huskies. It would be one final way for Washington's Kelsey Plum to get the best of Jackie Stiles. Stiles capped off her career, soon after setting the scoring ...

Who Makes The Semifinals Of Our 64-team College Football Bracket

... the Trojans in the waning seconds. How we got here. First round: (1) Ohio State over (16) Colorado State, (2) Penn State over (15) Boise State, (3) USC over (14) West Virginia, (4) Miami over (13) BYU, (12) Duke over (5) Tennessee, (6) Texas over (11) Missouri, (10) Georgia Tech over (7) Baylor, (8) Kansas State over (9) Mississippi State. Second round: (1) Ohio State over (8) Kansas State, (2) Penn State over (10) Georgia Tech, (3) USC over (6) Texas, (4) Miami over (12) Duke. East Region. Regional semifinals. (1) Florida State 32, (4) Georgia 21: The Bulldogs muscled their way through the first two rounds thanks to their two-pronged running attack, but the Seminoles' speed and athleticism on defense force Georgia to throw the ball more than it wants to, paving the way for FSU to score twice on defense and pull away for the win. (7) Washington State 31, (11) Pittsburgh 24: Mike Leach and the Cougars give the Palouse a reason to party a little bit longer. Washington State surpasses 30 points for the third straight ...

Espn Preps Bracket-hungry Viewers With 24-hour Tournament Challenge Marathon

... Selection Sunday and the start of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, there’s a window when sports fans are hungry to learn as much as they can about college basketball before sitting down to fill out a bracket. ESPN was there to feed that hunger with a 24-hour marathon of live coverage and analysis of the tournament designed to educate fans on the matchups and promote participation in the network’s online Tournament Challenge contests. “This is one of the true elements of sports Americana,” says Tom Archer, who, along with Kate Leonard, served as coordinating producer on the project. “Everybody fills out a bracket, and you don’t need to be an expert in college basketball to have fun picking your teams and picking a national champion. Our goal is to surround the 24 hours of coverage with fun and some degree of differentiating brackets and Tournament Challenge content both in the linear presentation and in our digital and social platforms. We want to make it as easy as possible for viewers to know how to sign up, how to enter, how many ways you can play. It’s up to us to give you information on how to win.”. The Tournament Challenge marathon ...