Ncaa Tournament Bracket

2017 Women's Ncaa Basketball Tournament Bracket

... 31 and April 2. This season’s No. 1 seeds: Connecticut, South Carolina, Baylor and Notre Dame. 2017 Women’s NCAA Tournament bracket. Here’s the full women’s NCAA tournament bracket, in printable form: __link__/3 p 0 Wf 3 zoa K __link__/Dd Wv Uf JRa V. — SI College Hoops (@si_ncaabb) March 14, 2017. 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament preview. Geno Auriemma is expected to lead Connecticut to another championship. He’s already won 11 national titles, with 10 of them since 2000. Connecticut has also won a record 107 games going into the NCAA Tournament. The Huskies most recently routed South Florida 100-44 to win the American Athletic Conference Tournament title. Connecticut (32-0) has four double-digit scorers, with Katie Lou Samuelson scoring 40 points in the win against South Florida. She was a perfect 10-for-10 on 3-pointers. Auriemma was of course measured after completing another perfect season, knowing his team has to prove itself over the next three weekends. One ...

Using The Last 10 Years To Predict Upsets

... Line. Latest odds. Pick two 11 seeds. Next, everyone talks about the 12 seeds as the upsets to pick, and sure, you can at least pick one. But since 2007, No. 6 seeds are 20-20 against 11 seeds. So, you can comfortably pick two No.11 seeds. Another rule: You should make one of these a team that wins in the “First Four.” Since the group of games was added in 2011, one team in the play in games advanced to the Round of 32. My picks: Either No. 11 Wake Forest or No. 11 Kansas State over Cincinnati. No. 11 Xavier over No. 6 Maryland. Pick three of the eight 10 or 12 seeds. As for the aforementioned No. 12 seeds. They’re 16-24 in the round of 12 in the last 10 years. I’d combine it with another stat. The 10 seeds are 15-25 in that same time period. So I’d take three out of the eight 10 or 12 seeds to advance. A good way to pick which teams is based on their offensive success. Can the team get hot for a game to pull off an upset? This points to No. 10 Oklahoma State. They’re the best team in America in offensive effienciency per Ken __link__. My picks: No. 10 Oklahoma State over No. 7 Michigan. No. 10 Wichita State over No. 7 Dayton. No. 12 Middle Tennessee over ...

Finding Some Flaws In The Women's Bracket

... at specific sites, but that's not something that is really debated over by its committee. Coach Dawn Staley's Gamecocks will have the farthest to travel of the No. 1 seeds, as South Carolina has been placed in the Stockton, California, region. Jeff Blake-USA TODAY Sports. It is a big issue for the women, who have tried several different formats - including predetermined early-round sites, eight-team pods for early rounds, regionals on campus sites - in an attempt to maximize attendance. And to make for the so-called "best student-athlete experience," which is hard to specifically define and really can't be done for everybody. To a degree, the women's committee can be hamstrung by geography, like this year, when a regional is in Stockton, California, but there's no No. 1 seed that's near there; three are from the Eastern time zone, one from the Central. The committee attempts to put the No. 1 seeds in geographical regions that are closest to it by order of the S-curve, and the committee ...

Bracket, Schedule For Ncaa Tournament In Greenville

... North Carolina: 2:15 - 2:55 p.m. Duke: 4:25 - 5:05 p.m. South Carolina: 5:10 - 5:50 p.m. Troy: 5:55 - 6:35 p.m. Marquette: 6:40 - 7:20 p.m. A shuttle from Redemption, 635 Haywood Rd., will run from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. From 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., Greenville's trolley's will run. First Round (Round of 64): Friday, March 17. South Region. 1:30 p.m.: No. 8 Arkansas vs. No. 9 Seton Hall, TNT. 4 p.m.: No. 1 North Carolina vs. No. 16 Texas Southern, TNT. East Region. 7:20 p.m.: No. 2 Duke vs. No. 15 Troy, TBS. 9:50 p.m.: No. 7 South Carolina vs. No. 10 Marquette, TBS. Shuttle's will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., trolleys will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and then 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Fan Fest: Saturday, March 16. 12 to 5 p.m. on Main Street from Broad to Court. More info here. Second Round: Sunday, March 19. Time TBD: Winner of Arkansas/Seton Hall vs. Winner of North Carolina/Texas Southern. Time TBD: Winner of South Carolina/Marquette vs. Winner of ...

Minnesota Golden Gophers Bracket Breakdown

... won 30 games (30-4 overall). They won both their conference regular season and conference titles and are currently on a 10-game winning streak. Earlier in the year, the Blue Raiders beat Vanderbilt, another tournament team, 71-48 at home and only lost to VCU by three (80-77). Oh, and last year they also upset top Big Ten team Michigan State in the opening round. Middle Tennessee State has the experience edge and is probably one of the more consistent teams on both ends. The Blue Raiders are near the top-50 in both adjusted offensive and defensive efficiency, according to Ken Pom. For the Gophers, the loss of Akeem Springs will have a big impact unfortunately. Richard Pitino played six guys in the team’s loss to Michigan in the Big Ten Tournament semi-finals, showing that the Gophers may be stretched thin this postseason. Nate Mason and Dupree Mc Brayer logged all 40 minutes, while Amir Coffey was right there at 39. Minnesota’s depth overall is an issue, particularly if foul trouble impacts anyone in the backcourt. Fatigue could also plague them, but the five day layoff will help. Second Round & Sweet Sixteen. If the Gophers advance they’ll ...

Five Upsets To Help You Win Your Ncaa Tournament Bracket Pool

... experience. They're also missing Akeem Springs, the guy who hit the game-winner against Indiana and moved into Pitino's starting lineup late in the season. Tore his Achilles. Done. Middle Tennessee is a band of veterans, the 10 th most experienced team in the tournament, a group led by three seniors that took down Michigan State by nine in the first round last season. (Conveniently, few remember the rest of the Blue Raiders' 2016 story. Syracuse blew out MTSU by 25 points in round two.). Middle has won 20 of its last 21 and has two victories over NCAA teams (UNC-Wilmington and Vanderbilt) on its NCAA resume. When ESPN posts the numbers from its Bracket Challenge, odds are more people will pick Middle than Minnesota. If you're looking for upsets, that's a start. Here are four others - one from each regional - for your office pool consideration. SOUTH REGIONAL. Wichita State (10-seed) over Dayton (7-seed). This is another upset that is not an upset. The Tournament Selection Committee valued Wichita as a 10-seed. Few serious students of basketball agree. That includes students wagering serious money in Las Vegas. The Shockers opened as a 6 ½-point favorite ...

2017 March Madness Bracket Predictions

... lot to make up for after a first-round loss to Wichita State. The previous three years Arizona at least reached the Sweet 16. This is a national program with an elite coach, Sean Miller. There’s nothing wrong with going with the hot team. The Wildcats tied for the Pac-12 title and won the conference tournament. And you probably weren’t able to stay up late enough to watch much of it. Kyle Boone. North Carolina has advanced to at least the Elite 8 each time it has earned a No. 1 seed under Roy Williams. And with three juniors and two seniors leading the way, I don’t think that trend changes this year. The Tar Heels have a veteran point guard in Joel Berry and a myriad of big men who will give teams fits trying to match up on them. I think UNC is in line to land its 20 th Final Four appearance and beyond with a team hungry to redeem itself from a heart-breaking title loss last season. Add a ...

Ranking The Entire 68-team March Madness Bracket

... blocking 16 percent of teams’ attempts. 17. Middle Tennessee: This isn’t the Blue Raiders squad you remember from a year ago, but it might be a better version of the team that shocked No. 2 Michigan State. Giddy Potts and Reggie Upshaw return, and the auto-bid from Conference USA is far less three-point dependent, preferring to score from within the arc (58 percent of their points are twos). 18. Iowa State: Monte Morris is the key. The senior guard has been on a tear throughout the second half of Big 12 play, posting an effective field goal percentage of 52.1 percent while continuing his torrid streak of handing out an assist on 34 percent of ISU’s buckets. [ How to win your March Madness office pool ]. 19. Nevada: The Wolf Pack doesn’t go to its bench. ever. Just 18 percent of the team’s minutes are allocated to subs, which means more playing time for Marcus Marshall and Cameron Oliver, the squad’s top offensive options. 20. Oregon: How will Chris Boucher’s injury affect the squad? Absent the ...

Puzzling Decisions Sprinkled Throughout Women's Ncaa Bracket

... then the league's unbeaten regular-season and tournament champion deserved a better seed than a No. 10 - and certainly better than its distant second-place finisher. Drake finished three games ahead of the Panthers in the Missouri Valley season and beat Northern Iowa three times. It's possible that the Bulldogs were considered the best No. 10 seed and Northern Iowa the worst, but that's still too close for two teams that weren't that close all season. Perhaps the committee was mesmerized by UNI's performance in Sunday's MVC tournament title game, which wasn't decided until overtime. Yes, UNI beat Kansas State and Creighton in the nonconference, but that doesn't make up for the head-to-head or conference discrepancy. "Body of work" has to include conference play, but it seemed to be forgotten here. Drake went 3-0 against fellow MVC team Northern Iowa. Yet they both ended up as No. 10 seeds. AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall. De Paul vs. Marquette: Another glaring example comes from the Big East, where De Paul, the regular-season champion, was given a No. 7 seed and tournament champ Marquette a No. 5. The seed for the Blue ...

Breaking Down The Women's Bracket

... value in this or any other tournament. - Creme. No. 7 De Paul at No. 2 Mississippi State: It has the potential to be a glorious contrast or, you know, a jarring mess. But the nation's No. 10 scoring offense, with a healthy Jessica January, on the road against the No. 11 scoring defense is fascinating. - Hays. No. 4 Louisville vs. No. 5 Tennessee: Sounds like a broken record, but no one knows which Tennessee team will show up. The one that beat Notre Dame, South Carolina and Mississippi State would be fearsome. The one that lost twice to Alabama? Not so much. - Voepel. Team better than its seed. No. 8 Syracuse: The Orange were as competitive with Notre Dame as anyone in the ACC (except NC State), and beat two teams seeded significantly higher. - Creme. No. 3 Maryland: The committee didn't smile on the Big Ten, but Maryland's rout of Arizona State, win at Louisville and memorable loss against Connecticut made its case. - Hays. No. 8 Syracuse: The Orange might not get much chance to prove it, with a potential second-round game at UConn. But it's hard to see, among other things, how Syracuse - a Final Four team last year - was four seeds worse than ACC mate Miami. - ...

Expert Tips For Filling Out A Winning Ncaa Tournament Bracket

... champions have all been teams ranked in the top 40 nationally in defensive efficiency. ". Power Sports. "Avoid picking a ton of upsets in the First Round. It's tempting, but there simply have been fewer and fewer the last few years because the mid-majors have gotten progressively weaker. When going for an upset, try and focus on teams from better conferences.". Will Rogers. "My advice would be to focus on upsets in the 2 nd Round or Sweet 16 as opposed to the 1 st Round. I find that is often the difference between a winning and losing bracket!". Ben Burns. "Ignore the seeding. I believe a lot of bettors get hung up about what seed a team is. For example, some start worrying about how No. 4 teams have done against No. 13 seeds historically. Every matchup is unique though, so the fact that some No. 13 seed upset a No. 4 seed previously has no relevance to me. If you like the favorite, lay the points. If you like the underdog, take them. Likewise, when filling out your bracket. If you feel that underdog is going to win, don't let its seeding prevent you from ...