March has long past from insanity to remarkable. With Miami’s win over Houston and San Diego State’s takedown of Alabama on Friday evening, the boys’s NCAA Tournament won’t have a No. 1 seed within the Elite Eight for the primary time since seeding started in 1979.
“There’s not a lot of difference between the best team in the country and the worst team in the country,” San Diego State trainer Brian Dutcher mentioned. “You’re seeing that on this stage.”
Purdue, Kansas, Houston and Alabama are all long past, making sure the Final Four won’t have a No. 1 crew for the primary time since 2011 and for the 3rd time total. The 4 groups deemed through the NCAA to be the most productive within the nation blended to win 5 match video games this 12 months, the fewest through No 1 seeds because the box expanded to 64 groups in 1985.
The fewest blended No 1-2 seeds within the Elite Eight ahead of this 12 months used to be two, one thing that had took place on 3 events.
How loopy has it been? The nationwide identify sport is assured to have no less than this kind of groups: San Diego State, Creighton, Florida Atlantic or Kansas State. Creighton ended No. 15 seed Princeton’s fairytale run on Friday with an 86-75 victory.
“It’s a lot of really good programs in the country that have lost – I mean, we could go down the list of them,” Alabama trainer Nate Oats mentioned. “That’s what makes the NCAA Tournament the NCAA Tournament. They’re all just right groups.
The insanity began within the opening spherical of the East Region, when fairytale Fairleigh Dickinson wrecked brackets world wide through turning into the second one No. 16 seed to overcome a No. 1. It used to be good-bye, Purdue.
Arkansas had been the following massive killers, taking down reigning nationwide champion and West Region No. 1 seed Kansas in the second one spherical.
The Sweet 16 became bitter on Friday for Alabama, the bracket’s No. 1 total seed. The Crimson Tide had been no fit for Dutcher’s ball-and-body-hawking San Diego State Aztecs in a 71–64 South Region loss in Louisville, Kentucky.
Miami capped the No. 1 carnage within the Midwest Region through taking aside some of the country’s stingiest defenses in an 89–75 win over Houston in Kansas City, Missouri.
On to an Elite Eight not like every other.