Ncaa tournament saturday game schedule

Wisconsin was blown out at Ohio State in mid-December, but perhaps things will be different when they welcome the Buckeyes to the Kohl Center on Thursday night. Win that one, and they'll be in the No.

Not only did the Rams go a perfect , but they also picked up quality wins over Creighton neutral , Mississippi State neutral and Saint Mary's home. But they were noticeably rusty and out of sync after going 24 days between games played. They struggled at home against a bad Air Force team that was playing without three of its starters, and then they got destroyed at San Diego State over the weekend.

Can the Rams stop the bleeding before their resume falls apart? A home loss to Utah State this Wednesday wouldn't be the end of the world, but drop any of the subsequent games against San Jose State, New Mexico or Air Force, and their projected bid will be hanging by a thread, at best.

San Diego State's aforementioned point win over Colorado State ended up having an equal but opposite reaction for those two teams in the seeding mix. The Rams dropped three seed lines and the Aztecs climbed three seed lines, landing one spot on the overall seed list ahead of the team they just smashed. In other words, no bad losses and only one remotely noteworthy win, which is a resume with "Bubble" written all over it.

By throttling previously unbeaten Colorado State, the Aztecs now have a little bit of breathing room above the cut line. If they were to lose the remaining road games against Colorado State, Fresno State, Boise State and Utah State but take care of business elsewhere, that might be enough for a bid.

Alabama isn't exactly fading fast. Dropping one seed line over a period of three weeks is nothing. It is a decrease, though, and that gives me an opportunity to point out something weird about this resume: The Crimson Tide have not yet played a single Quadrant 4 game, but they did lose to the worst opponent they have faced thus far. The loss at Missouri this past Saturday was a brutal one for a team that already had questionable losses to Iona, Davidson and Memphis.

But Alabama also has marquee wins over Gonzaga, Houston and Tennessee, as well as a nice road win over Florida and a rapidly-gaining-value point neutral-site victory over Miami. Some teams would be in free-fall mode in projected seeding after a bad loss to Missouri. For Alabama, it was a minor speed bump, thanks to the "insulation" from all those good wins. And the Crimson Tide could get right back on track for a spot in the top three seed lines with a home win over either Auburn or LSU in the next 10 days.

We've got a tough call for the fourth No. Fellow Pac contender Arizona has better metrics, but just the one Quadrant 1 win at Illinois.

So LSU gets the nod for a projected No. The Tigers have four Quadrant 1 wins, two of which vs. Kentucky; vs. Tennessee have come in the past week. Per KenPom , they have the most efficient defense in the country, and it's not all that close. It's a crying shame that Auburn lost that double-overtime game against Connecticut in the opening round of the Battle 4 Atlantis, or else we could have been treated to a championship showdown between Auburn and Baylor.

As is, that thriller against the Huskies is still the only game the Tigers have lost this season, and they have won four straight against Murray State, LSU, South Carolina and Florida by at least a dozen points each.

There's a great big "welcome to basketball season" game for SEC football fans on Tuesday night when Auburn travels to Alabama. A road win in Tuscaloosa would really cement the Tigers as one of the top contenders for the national championship. Gonzaga has played eight games against teams outside the KenPom top , winning each of them by at least 25 points.

Hence the substantial difference between the Zags' Resume metrics and Quality metrics. Baylor is running away with the No. Baylor was tested by Iowa State, Oklahoma and TCU, but beating this team for a full 40 minutes is going to take a special kind of effort. The Bears will very likely suffer at least one loss before the NCAA tournament, but they are the "as long as they don't go ice cold from three-point range" favorite to win it all. In case seeded regions aren't enough and you want to know where the "top" 68 teams stand in relation to one another, here is a list of each team's overall seed, broken down by conference.

First five out teams are included in italics. Duke; North Carolina; Miami; Wake Forest; Louisville; Virginia Tech. Atlantic 10 2 : Davidson; Saint Louis; Baylor; 6. Kansas; Iowa State; Texas; Texas Tech; West Virginia; Oklahoma; Virginia Tech 17 , No. Andrews 43 Idaho 68 , Simon Fraser 0 No. Thomas Minn. Southern 38, Mississippi Valley State Dartmouth 31 , Penn 7 Houston 45 , Tulsa 10 No. Louisiana 41, Appalachian State Appalachian State 30, No.

FAU 38, Charlotte 9 No. Illinois 20 , No. Wisconsin 27 , No. Francis PA 17, Duquesne 10 No. Southern Miss 35 , Louisiana Tech 19 No.

FCS — Quarterfinals. Bahamas Bowl Middle Tennessee 31 , Toledo New Orleans Bowl No. Frisco Bowl No. This sponsored post was published according to our guiding principles.

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