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NCAA Men’s Tournament Winners Lost: Tennessee, Arkansas, Kansas
There’s no substitute for the first weekend of the tournament: Upsets, Cinderellas you’ve never heard of, and four screens at once because you can’t miss the end of any game.
And we have another day of chaos.
Saturday saw a variety of shockers, including Rick Barnes walking on in the Sweet 16 and defending champion Kansas leaving the postseason early. You have to feel sorry for Bill Self, who underwent surgery last week and never made it to the sideline for his team’s two NCAA Tournament games.
Meanwhile, Princeton — yes, Princeton, home of the Tigers — is in the Sweet 16. We’re as surprised as anyone, but also impressed.
The best news is that this is only the first weekend of the tournament. We still have two weeks left in the asylum.
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Rick Barnes
Long criticized for underachieving in the NCAA tournament, Tennessee’s eighth-season head coach enters the second weekend after a 65-52 win over fifth-seeded Duke. This is the second time Barnes has reached the Sweet 16 with the Volunteers and eighth time overall; it might even be his most impressive performance of the tournament given point guard Zakai Zeigler’s season-ending knee injury. Barnes is the second coach in program history to make multiple trips to the Sweet 16, joining Bruce Pearl.
The No. 5 Aztecs had a national crowd to themselves in the first game Saturday afternoon and put on an impressive performance against No. 13 Furman. SDSU led by 14 points at halftime and by as many as 26 points in the second half in a 75-52 victory to send the program to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2014 and third time overall. With #2 Arizona and #4 Virginia already ousted from the South Region, the Aztecs are a serious threat to the Final Four.
The Hogs are in the Sweet 16 for the third straight year after stunning No. 1 seed Kansas, 72-71, Arkansas coach Eric Musselman celebrated by ripping off his jersey and jumping on the scorer’s table (we can’t help but see it) . They will now aim for their third straight Elite 8 when they face the winner of the St. Mary’s-UConn next weekend. The defending champions certainly missed Self, who continued to recover from surgery. But give Arkansas credit for finding a way to win despite shooting just 20% from long range in the game and having three players fouled out.
What a weekend for the Tigers.
First, the No. 15-seeded men defeated second-seeded Arizona 59-55 in the first round. The women then came from behind to win a thrilling 10-7 game over NC State, hitting a 3 with 4.7 seconds to play.
This win made it the first time in Ivy League history that a men’s and women’s team advanced to the second round – how cool is that for the teams to come from the same school. To continue the history-making weekend, the men followed it up with a 78-63 victory over seventh-seeded Missouri. In a battle of the Tigers, Princeton absolutely dominated the boards, winning the rebounding battle 44-30.
Everything had opened up for the Blue Devils, who entered the second round on a tear — winning nine in a row to end the regular season, including the ACC tournament, then dominating No. 12 Oral Roberts in the first round — and it looked to get huge breakthrough with #16 Fairleigh Dickinson’s upset of #1 Purdue. Instead, Duke will exit in the second round for the first time since 2017 after failing to find an answer for Tennessee’s physical defense and 3-point shooting. There are still positives to take from Jon Scheyer’s debut season, but this loss will sting the entire offseason.
NCAA Men’s Selection Committee
We’re not saying we think it’s an easy job or that we want the job. Choosing the 68 teams for the tournament and their seeding is a difficult task. And it’s probably harder in a season like 2022-23 where there was no real separation at the top.
That being said, the committee doesn’t look all that hot right now, with two 1 seeds (Purdue and Kansas) falling before the Sweet 16, a 15 seed (Princeton) in the second weekend after beating a 2 (Arizona) and a dismantling of a 7 (Missouri ). The disappointments are great, but we can’t help but feel that the committee has missed the mark on more than one team.
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