16 things to know after the DI men's basketball top-16 reveal

16 things to know after the DI men’s basketball top-16 reveal


16 things to know after the DI men’s basketball top-16 reveal

So now the NCAA tournament has its best 16 seeds, of course written pencils. Better to be a pencil because five of them lost Saturday immediately after the holder’s release, faster than you could say, “What’s wrong with Kansas?”

Yes, the preview is nice, but check back in four weeks when choosing Sunday when they do it really. How Wisconsin’s Greg Gard said on Saturday after Badgers confirmed his place No. 11 by winning in Purdue: “We need to play a lot of basketball before he comes that day.”

Top 16: Basketball Committee for Men’s Division and reveals the 16 best seeds before selecting Sunday

Yet it is a plan and interesting.

Sixteen messages from holder 16

1. Let’s have another hearty bike Because they are some cheerful For SeC, with six teams in the TOP 10. If dance started today, sec should be seed 1 in three of the four regions – Auburn, Alabama and Florida. And every opportunity to place three teams in Final Four, something that just big east ever made, and that was 40 years ago.

2. Seven of the highest deployed nine teams never received the National Championship. Five of them never played in the title game. So 2025, your name is an opportunity.

3. Auburn was declared the fairest of them as seed no. 1. Tigers are 14-2 in Quad 1 victory, six more than any other team in the nation. For 1-2 noon moment in Alabama on Saturday, they put six players in double characters, committed only four turnover and never followed one second. Any questions?

“They are team 1 in the country for some reason,” was the opinion of one coach. It was Alabam’s Nate Oats and he should know.

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4. Yeah, he lost the tide, but the points still come. This season they played 25 games. They held three times under 80 years. Alabama gets a chance of revenge on March 8 in Auburn. And then maybe again in the Sec tournament. And then maybe again at the NCAA tournament.

Since so many seconds have a chance to make deep runs and come across each other, chances are greater than ever of two members who play four times this season. It can also be Alabama and Auburn.

5. If not the SEC team that is getting to March, then who? One Vencoper clearly increased to the top. In the upper layer of the seed list, 3 Duke is a small blue island in the sea of ​​seconds. Blue Devils lead a nation in a span of span, with 10 of their 15 victories of ACC with at least 17 points. The new Stanford League member first looked at the Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday and lost 106-70. Call it an initiation fee.

A lot of it was Freshman Fhenom Cooper Flagg, but not everything. “When your best player literally doesn’t care about statistics, I think everyone else, how can you take care of statistics?” Said coach Jon Scheyer. “Cooper [Flagg] It doesn’t matter. It depends on the victory and I think it’s contagious. ”

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6. Florida switched from the sixth place in the Preeason in Preseason to name the interim highest seed in the western region. What to say about Gators? Start with this: Florida 90, Auburn 81. In Auburn, said enough?

It is also the case: because somewhat non-disomacles 64-44 loss in Tennessee, when a report on the missing personally was reported in a misdemeanor in Florida. For future use it has been eight years since Florida got the second weekend of the NCAA tournament.

7. While Auburn. Alabama and Florida light up the SEC score with 47 games at least 85 points between them, Tennessee and Texas A & M will join them at the top of the list with the two highest defense in the nation. One other thing they both have in common. He was never on Final Four.

8. Purdue’s understanding of seed no. Not long after the early holder appeared, Purdue gave up the most points in the home game Macay Arena in 12 years and lost with Wisconsin 94-84. These are two defeats in a row, with trips to Michigan State and Indiana in the next seven days and later to Illinois. There was some frustration against the dachshund on the floor and no wonder. Purdue fired 52 percent, committed only four turnovers, had more rebounds and got 30 points from Trey Kaufman-Renn. And lost 10 at home.

“You get to February, competing, trying jockey to get to the best position for the NCAA tournament and win the Big Ten Championship and it’s hard.” But it’s hard for everyone, ”said coach Matt Painter. “Then I talked to them,” Hey, you have to stop talking to officials, you have to stop showing body language, you have to stop being emotional. “With being passionate, there’s nothing wrong, but don’t be emotional.”

“I like our people, we have a good team.” But together we have to be better, and that includes me. ”

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9. If this holder was holding and Houston is indeed the seed no. Wouldn’t it be an interesting weekend in San Francisco?

10. Kentucky seed no. Kentucky won one game in the last four NCAA tournaments and showed the door to Saint Peter and Oakland. The first holder promises something better. And it is not recommended to disappoint Big Blue Nation.

11. This mysterious team was included in the TOP-10 AP for 22 consecutive weeks, longer than anyone else in the nation. Alabama? Duke? Houston? No, no, no. State Iowa. This is a bunch whose only loss in the first 16 games was two points on Auburn. Cyclones are now 20-5, no. 9 in an early bracket and the possibility to bring a breakthrough into the corn fields. It’s been 45 years since anyone from Iowa has appeared in the last four.

12. Remember when Wisconsin finished 12th place in Media Preseason Big Ten? Arizona started 4-5? Texas Tech was chosen to finish seventh in a large 12? Michigan ended at the bottom of Big Ten and had a total of 24 losses last season? It doesn’t matter all. These are seeds 11-14.

Texas Tech is 6-1 on the road in Velká 12, Arizona started 11-1 on her first Big 12 tour before losing his back slowed down the fee. Michigan now leads Big that year after 3-17 in the conference game. And Wisconsin? Now, quietly back on stage as usual. Purdue could have only four turnovers on Saturday, but badgers committed only three, none in the second half. They were also-e-egads-20-for-22 in two-point shots. It also owns the best percentage of free throw in the country. All these are very hard in a few weeks. Obviously, the selection committee has noticed dachshunds with total seed No. 11.

“That means we have the attention of people, right?” Said Gard. “We also play good basketball, we are a really good team and I think we are improving and that’s the exciting part.”

13. Kansas slips in the holder on No. 15. The operative word slips, which could now begin to resemble Toboggan’s ride from the list for formerly Jayhawks No. 1 after a loss in Utah. At some risk, Kansas’s permanent chair at the table of the first four seeds in each area is. Jayhawks might miss and Bill Self has never seen such a thing in his 21 years in Lawrence.

“No. 15 He is obviously very generous, “the Kansas seed said this weekend.

14. St. John’s did not win the NCAA tournament in 24 years. If the red storm can hang on the seed no. 4 in the east, they would have to beat the seed no. 13 to end the dry charm.

15. Visible by their absence: no Gonzaga and her strip of nine consecutive tournaments advancing to Sweet 16. No Clemson and its 21-5 Duke Tigers. No, Michigan State and his evaluation No. 11 in AP. No memphis and its 21-4 record and leading at the US Conference. And no UConn, the chances of ThreePeat look more fragile after they lost overtime to Seton Hall, the team of the last place in the Great East on Saturday. This causes eight losses.

16. Yet it is February, not March. Still time to move up. Or down.



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