I grew up in that city hoping and praying just to get a chance.” Mike Krzyzewski still on the active list. Said Cooley of his Sweet 16 trip, “I’m emotionally just trying to get the enormity of it. “If you can coach the game of basketball, if you can get guys to buy in and believe in you, that’s what it’s all about.” “It just shows you that doesn’t matter what color you are,” Holloway said. In other words, it has been a very big tournament so far for Black coaches - or of Native American heritage in Sampson’s case - with emotions to match. Houston returned to the Sweet 16 with Kelvin Sampson, Saint Peter’s busted brackets with Shaheen Holloway, Providence is in the Sweet 16 for the first time in 25 years with Ed Cooley, Michigan made it through as an 11 seed with Juwan Howard, North Carolina is back in the second week with Hubert Davis. “You can’t apologize for winning games in this tournament,” Kansas’ Bill Self said. Either way, survival is the issue, not style. Lots of clanking going on out there, and maybe defense is mostly responsible. Kansas’ starters hit under 37 percent and escaped Creighton, a team whose depth had been so decimated by injury, the Bluejays were outscored in bench points in two games 55-1. Texas Tech’s field percentage was 35.6 and the Red Raiders missed 10 of their last 11 shots against Notre Dame. Iowa State scored 59 and 54 and won twice. Arkansas scored 53 points this weekend and won. Thirty years ago, Kentucky played a famous game against Duke, scored 103 points and lost. That will put either an 11 or 10 seed in the Elite Eight. Iowa State in Chicago in their bracket? That’s a meeting of two teams who were a combined 12-39 last season. Michigan in San Antonio is a reprise of their 2018 national title game, which was played in. North Carolina in Philadelphia represents 17 national championships, or 21 percent of the trophies ever handed out. Akron led for 27 minutes before losing by four.īRACKET: Check out the interactive March Madness bracket Matchups of all flavors. And we were watching that game thinking to ourselves, that can’t be us tonight.” “That’s March for you right there,” Jaimie Jaquez Jr. The UCLA Bruins, for example, were very aware of Kentucky’s fate before they went out to play Akron. Shocking losses to some were warnings to others. 1’s – Gonzaga, Kansas and Arizona – rumbled onward, but there are also a No. Only Arkansas remains, which means the MAAC has as many teams in the Sweet 16 as the SEC. The poor SEC had its entire penthouse whacked – Auburn, Kentucky, Tennessee.
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The Big 12 and ACC lead the way with three each.
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The first nine games of the second round were won by teams from nine different conferences, so lots of leagues are still in the room. So what do they bring to the next round of the NCAA tournament? Variety. One week down, leaving 16 survivors, some of them slightly dazed.