I slot the Sooners fourth because of the Buddy factor, plus, this team could have been a No. The Sooners were pushed to the edge by VCU but won 85-81 thanks to 29 second-half points from Buddy Hield, who's averaging 31.5 points in the tournament. Oklahoma (West): Buddy Hield still playing in this bracket is a great thing. The Cavs will need to reach the Elite Eight to avoid getting Villanova'd, meaning they need one more win or else a lot of people are going to outright dismiss Bennett. Tony Bennett's crew blew past Hampton and then beat Butler in a pretty good game on Saturday that got swallowed up by all the other action Sunday. Virginia (Midwest): The Cavs rank as the top team at KenPom right now. The Heels won their first two by an average of 17.5 points. The Tar Heels got tested in both of their games against Florid Gulf Coast and Providence but wound up making it academic in the second half of each. North Carolina (East): Right now UNC is No. 1s do: boringly blast through the first weekend, then only make us start paying attention when we get to the Sweet 16.Ģ. They are still the favorite to win the national title. They won their first two games by an average margin of 19 points and were never threatened. Kansas (South): Obviously the Jayhawks are atop the list. Austin, but every single Sweet 16 game is really good.ġ. That first weekend was fun, and from a story line perspective, it stinks that we lost Denzel Valentine, Kentucky, Wichita State, Northern Iowa and Stephen F. This is a really strong crop here, folks. And the bottom four teams listed are basically interchangeable as far as I'm concerned. Kansas at one and UNC at two are givens, but it gets tough from there. And Wisconsin is the only one in the group that's reached the second weekend three consecutive seasons. Wondering how many teams from last year's Sweet 16 are in this year's? Seven. We'll examine how these teams looked the past two games in addition to the regular-season resume to re-seed them 1-16. Final 4: It’s happened five times, ever.With the arguably the best first weekend ever behind us, let's re-rank this Sweet 16.Eight out of the last 10 Sweet 16’s included an 11-seed. Sweet 16: Of the 26 teams to reach this round, nine of them continued to the next.Overall, there’s about a 54% chance at least one 11-seed will advance to the Sweet 16.
Second Round: 11-seeds are on an incredible run – at least one 11-seed has won a Second Round game in 10 of the last 12 tournaments.Only 3 of the last 29 tournaments didn’t have an 11-6 upset. It’s been 19 years since we haven’t seen an 11-seed pull off a First Round upset. First Round: There is an 86% chance of at least one upset.21 (of 40) advanced to the Second Round.57 (of 148) advanced to the Second Round.11-seeds have actually reached the Second Round and the Sweet 16 about as often as 12-seeds, but they’re the only double-digit seed (outside of 10-Syracuse in 2016) to make it to the Final 4. They’ve similarly laid waste to brackets two other times in the last 11 tournaments. 2021’s UCLA was the most recent 11-seed to bust millions of brackets by reaching the Final Four. 11-seeds have become the ultimate bracket busters.
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