Again to the Huge Dance.
The Colorado State males’s basketball crew is certain for March Insanity after the Rams had been chosen into the 68-team NCAA Event subject on Choice Sunday.
The Rams will play in a first-four sport in Dayton, Ohio, in opposition to Virginia in a 10-seed matchup. The sport shall be at 7:10 p.m. MT/9:10 p.m. ET Tuesday, March 19. It may be watched on truTV.
The winner performs Texas within the first spherical on Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina.
CSU is within the NCAA Event for the second time in three seasons. The Rams made it with a powerful nonconference schedule, together with a blowout win over Creighton, and a collection of key residence wins.
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This is a have a look at what to find out about CSU and the NCAA Event.
How Colorado State made March Insanity bracket
In some ways, CSU had set itself as much as be NCAA Event-bound by December.
The Rams labored early.
Niko Medved’s scheduling mantra is to at all times give his crew an opportunity to make it with an aggressive schedule. It normally includes a number of high-major video games (normally at impartial venues) and a few stable mid-majors.
The highlights got here in a fast stretch in late November and early December.
CSU beat Boston Faculty on Nov. 22 then adopted with a Thanksgiving Day feast in opposition to Creighton. The Rams blasted the Blue Jays 69-48, giving themselves an early top-line resume piece that carried via to Choice Sunday.
CSU then adopted these two wins with a house win over Colorado and a neutral-site win over Washington.
That core of video games set the Rams as much as the purpose the place they had been firmly in and must play themselves out of the NCAA Event.
CSU had ups and downs in Mountain West play, shedding on the highway to all the highest groups within the league, however the Rams additionally beat all the remainder of the highest seven no less than as soon as. CSU then made the semifinals of the Mountain West match, which proved vital when the committee positioned the Rams because the final at-large crew within the subject.
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Colorado State’s NCAA Event historical past
The Rams had been within the NCAA Event two seasons in the past when David Roddy and Isaiah Stevens helped lead CSU to a No. 6-seed within the 2022 match.
The Rams had been beat 75-63 by No. 11 Michigan within the first spherical in Indianapolis.
Now Stevens and firm are again.
That is simply the twelfth NCAA Event look in CSU males’s basketball historical past.
CSU is 4-12 in NCAA Event video games, reaching the Elite Eight in 1969.
The final win in a match sport got here in 2013 when the No. 8 Rams beat No. 9 Missouri 84-72 earlier than shedding to eventual nationwide champion Louisville within the second spherical (the championship was later vacated by the NCAA).
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