Selection Sunday: 68 basketball teams chart path toward NCAA name
The cheering was method planning Sunday as teams located out who they may be playing for the NCAA Tournament. The Atlantic Coast Conference has made a bit of history: For the first time, the convention has three No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament. The ACC had league event champion, Duke, because the top ordinary seed. Virginia and North Carolina shared the conference’s regular-season championship and claimed No. 1 seed, as properly. That’s simplest the second time a league has managed 3 No. 1 seeds. The different time got here in 2009 when the Big East had Louisville, Connecticut, and Pittsburgh — though the Huskies were the handiest team to survive their bracket and attain the Final Four that 12 months.
The Zags headline the West place after losing to St. Mary’s within the West Coast Conference Tournament championship sport. That becomes their first loss when you consider that falling to Tennessee and North Carolina in December. The Zags have Big Ten runner-up Michigan as their No. 2 seed. UNC is the pinnacle seed within the South bracket, whilst Virginia is on top inside the Midwest. The Cavaliers are the second overall seed within sixty-eight and will headline the South Region bracket. They open Friday in Columbia, South Carolina, in opposition to Gardner-Webb, which gained the Big South Conference identity. Virginia has become the first No. 1 seed ever to lose to a 16th-seed team ultimate 12 months, falling to UMBC in a moment now etched in event lore.
On Saturday night, Duke, led via freshman sensation Zion Williamson, gained the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament and located itself as the favorite in Vegas to win all of it whilst the nets come down on the Final Four on April 8. The Blue Devils are an early 9-4 favorite. Duke has been selected because the No. 1 average seed in the NCAA Tournament, topping the East area. Michigan State beat the tenth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 65-60 on Sunday, ending Michigan’s two-12 month’s reign within the Big Ten Tournament, shortly earlier than the sphere unveiling began. Its reward was to be a No. 2 seed inside the East bracket with typical No. 1 Duke. The tournament starts offevolved Tuesday with more than one play-in game, then receives into complete force Thursday and Friday, with 32 groups gambling each day at eight websites around the united states of America.
