Dropping out are Oklahoma State, which lost an appeal to have its one-year tournament ban overturned, along with Seton Hall and Iowa. ESPN 0 0 0. Bracket Watch Top Overall Seed. Last Four Byes. First Four 16 Texas Southern. Bonaventure - aq. Conference Breakdown Conference. U Penn Mercer Hartford Loyola Mymt NW State Utah Val St Mass Lowell Fairfield St Fran PA Miami OH Missouri Oakland IL-Chicago Vanderbilt Hawaii Kent State Kansas St Tulsa Mt St Marys Wyoming Old Dominion WI-Milwkee Montana St Maryland BC Grambling St W Illinois UMKC Rice Longwood Bowling Grn Charlotte LIU Quinnipiac Coppin State NC-Asheville Canisius Manhattan Delaware Alcorn State Lipscomb GA Southern Col Charlestn Washington Citadel Brown Troy E Washingtn Rob Morris SE Missouri S Illinois Cornell Rider Wake Forest Hampton NC-Wilmgton Fla Atlantic NJIT CS Fullerton CS Bakersfld Duquesne High Point Albany Siena Elon TX-Arlington VA Military S Carolina Idaho State Dartmouth Jacksonville Geo Mason St Fran NY Youngs St TX El Paso N Florida Ball State AR Lit Rock TX-San Ant American Indiana St Bradley Presbyterian Stetson TN Tech Kennesaw St Lehigh S Mississippi TN State Fresno St Austin Peay Loyola-MD San Diego Sac State Valparaiso S Car State Temple Georgia Binghamton Maryland ES Houston Bap Incar Word Delaware St Lg Beach St Army Iowa State Detroit Illinois St Charl South Santa Clara Boston Col Cal Poly Samford Holy Cross Pittsburgh Bucknell LA Monroe Tulane Columbia Beth-Cook Cal St Nrdge Florida Intl F Dickinson TX-Pan Am In freshman point guard Andre Curbelo they have someone who can break down defenses to score or distribute.
The concern is a tendency to float at times, taking a few possessions off defensively or throwing the ball away on offense. While nobody goes into a single-elimination tournament lacking motivation, sometimes the habits of a season can still come back to haunt a team. And with a tough draw in the second round Georgia Tech or Loyola Chicago and potentially the third Oklahoma State , Illinois has to be on its game all the time.
Baylor has long hung its hat on defense, but this group has evolved into an elite offensive unit that leads the nation in three-point shooting percentage. The Bears went into it 17—0 and came out of it 5—2. The losses are hardly bad Kansas and Oklahoma State , but this was a team dominating the Big 12 up to that point.
The Jayhawks did expose short-ish Baylor on the backboard, which presents a potential issue if the Bears meet North Carolina in the Round of Especially when combined with a defense that is second-best in the nation, limiting opponents at the three-point line and turning them over.
Combine that with the fact that the top seed in the East, Michigan, likely is missing one of its key players for at least the first two rounds and perhaps the entire tournament. The opportunity is there for the Crimson Tide, which weathered a couple of serious battles in the SEC tourney.
That takes away one three-point threat and some length on the defensive end. Alabama will also need to keep guard Jahvon Quinerly playing the way he did in the SEC tourney, where he took good shots and took care of the ball. The ceiling for this team is high enough that the comparison is to the Syracuse team that rode freshman mega-talent Carmelo Anthony to the national title.
Cade Cunningham is the man trying to fill the Carmelo role this time around—the likely No. Oklahoma State is flush with athletes and playing very confidently under coach Mike Boynton. The Pokes also have improved defensively as the season has progressed. The draw is difficult, with Oklahoma State on a collision course with Illinois in the Sweet Combating pounds of Kofi Cockburn could be difficult there. But first, the young Cowboys have to show they can handle NCAA tournament pressure—none of them, including Boynton, has ever been there, and veteran first-round opponent Liberty has.
Valuing the basketball, as the coaches say, will be important. The Seminoles have shooters, size, toughness, tourney experience, a lottery pick point guard and a coach who is overdue to make a Final Four. Barnes also turns the ball over a fair amount, as do the Seminoles in general—their turnover rate is higher than all but 11 teams in the field, including coughing it up 25 times in the ACC tournament final.
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