CNN
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The fields are set for March Insanity and it’s time to fill out your brackets.
The boys’s subject is topped by defending champion Connecticut whereas the ladies’s total No. 1 seed is undefeated South Carolina.
The opposite prime seeds for the NCAA Division I males’s basketball event are the Purdue Boilermakers, North Carolina Tar Heels and Houston Cougars.
The ladies’s prime seeds embody the Iowa Hawkeyes, Southern California Trojans and Texas Longhorns.
The occasions start with play-in video games, the First 4, which for the lads will probably be held Tuesday and Wednesday with girls’s contests on Wednesday and Thursday.
The boys’s No. 2 seeds are Iowa State Cyclones, Marquette Golden Eagles, Tennessee Volunteers and Arizona Wildcats.
The Wildcats will face No. 15 seed Lengthy Seaside State, who regardless of firing their head coach earlier this week, gained the Massive West Convention Event to clinch this system’s first NCAA event look since 2012.
Conventional bluebloods Kentucky earned a No. 3 seed whereas Duke and Kansas are each No. 4 seeds.
Girls’s No. 1 total seed South Carolina comes off a second consecutive SEC Event title. The Gamecocks are looking for to develop into the tenth crew in girls’s Division I historical past to complete the season as undefeated champions. They may play towards the winner between First 4 members Sacred Coronary heart and Presbyterian.
Final 12 months, South Carolina went undefeated within the SEC common season and SEC event earlier than being upset by Iowa within the Last 4.
Led by the NCAA’s all-time Division I main scorer Caitlin Clark, the Hawkeyes secured a No. 1 seed for the third time in program historical past and first time since 1992. The Hawkeyes will play towards both Holy Cross or Tennessee-Martin within the first spherical.
Iowa reached the nationwide championship recreation final 12 months however finally fell to Louisiana State, which is a No. 3 seed this 12 months.
Thirty-two groups routinely certified in each the lads’s and girls’s event by advantage of profitable their respective convention tournaments.
A variety committee then decided which different groups obtain certainly one of 36 at-large bids for a complete of 68 groups. These ranked between the No. 64 and No. 68 then play within the First 4 play-in event, in a bid to be a part of the ultimate 64 groups.
Choice Sunday is the tip of weeks of hypothesis as school basketball followers have sought to foretell the exact configuration of groups that can make the ultimate bracket.
Kirk Irwin/Getty Photos
Zach Edey of the Purdue Boilermakers blocks a shot through the second half of a recreation towards Ohio State.
It implies that followers, in addition to simply informal observers, will then be capable of fill of their customary brackets predicting the outcomes of the event, in a nationwide custom that has seen everybody from US Presidents Barack Obama and George H.W. Bush to Jimmy Fallon take part in.
Now that Choice Sunday is all however over, there are solely two days for followers to fill out their brackets earlier than the lads’s event begins on March 19 and the ladies’s event begins the day after. From then on, the video games come thick and quick with the total schedule out there beneath.
Males’s event
First 4: March 19-20
First spherical: March 21-22
Second spherical: March 23-24
Candy 16: March 28-29
Elite Eight: March 30-31
Last 4: Saturday, April 6
NCAA championship recreation: Monday, April 8
Girls’s event
First 4: March 20-21
First spherical: March 22-23
Second spherical: March 24-25
Candy 16: March 29-30
Elite Eight: March 31-April 1
Last 4: Friday, April 5
NCAA championship recreation: Sunday, April 7
Males’s video games, by area
East
Connecticut vs. Stetson; Florida Atlantic vs. Northwestern; San Diego State vs. Alabama at Birmingham; Auburn vs. Yale
Brigham Younger vs. Duquesne; Illinois vs. Morehead State; Washington State vs. Drake; Iowa State vs. South Dakota State
South
Houston vs. Longwood; Nebraska vs. Texas A&M; Wisconsin vs. James Madison; Duke vs. Vermont
Texas Tech vs. NC State; Kentucky vs. Oakland; Florida vs. winner of Boise State-Colorado; Marquette vs. Western Kentucky
Midwest
Purdue vs. winner of Montana State-Grambling State; Utah State vs. Texas Christian; Gonzaga vs. McNeese; Kansas vs. Samford
South Carolina vs. Oregon; Creighton vs. Akron; Texas vs. winner of Virginia-Colorado State; Tennessee vs. Saint Peter’s
West
North Carolina vs. winner of Howard-Wagner; Mississippi State vs. Michigan State; Saint Mary’s (California) vs. Grand Canyon; Alabama vs. Charleston
Clemson vs. New Mexico; Baylor vs. Colgate; Dayton vs. Nevada; Arizona vs. Lengthy Seaside State
Area 1 Albany
South Carolina vs. the winner of Sacred Coronary heart-Presbyterian; North Carolina vs. Michigan State; Indiana vs. Fairfield; Oklahoma vs. Florida Gulf Coast.
Nebraska vs. Texas A&M; Oregon State vs. Jap Washington; Mississippi vs. Marquette; Notre Dame vs. Kent State
Area 2 Albany
Iowa vs. winner of Holy Cross-Tennessee Martin; West Virginia vs. Princeton; Colorado vs. Drake; Kansas State vs. Portland
Louisville vs. Center Tennessee State; Louisiana State vs. Rice; Creighton vs. Nevada-Las Vegas; UCLA vs. California Baptist
Area 3 Portland
Southern California vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi; Kansas vs. Michigan; Baylor vs. winner of Vanderbilt-Columbia; Virginia Tech vs. Marshall
Syracuse vs. winner of Auburn-Arizona; Connecticut vs Jackson State; Duke vs. Richmond; Ohio State vs. Maine
Area 4 Portland
Texas vs. Drexel; Alabama vs. Florida State; Utah vs. South Dakota State; Gonzaga vs. Cal Irvine
Tennessee vs. Inexperienced Bay; North Carolina State vs. Chattanooga; Iowa State vs. Maryland; Stanford vs. Norfolk State
Caitlin Clark
Caitlin Clark has transcended school basketball together with her record-breaking achievements this 12 months, changing into a star able to commanding excessive ticket costs and profitable sponsorship offers. The time period “Clark-onomics” has been coined to explain her big impression off the courtroom, such has been her ubiquity in popular culture.
The 22-year-old has develop into the NCAA Division-I main scorer throughout each males’s and girls’s school basketball this 12 months, and eclipsed NBA star Steph Curry’s report of essentially the most three-pointers hit in a single NCAA Division-1 season.
She is looking for to steer the Iowa Hawkeyes to an NCAA championship title, earlier than heading to the WNBA the place she is projected to be the No. 1 decide on this 12 months’s draft.
Angel Reese
Angel Reese is one other of the event’s greatest stars, following her essential function in propelling LSU to its first ever girls’s school basketball title final 12 months.
Matthew Holst/Getty Photos
Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes celebrates after breaking the NCAA girls’s all-time scoring report final month.
Though LSU earned a No. 3 seed on Choice Sunday after succumbing to defeat towards South Carolina within the SEC Event championship recreation, it’s nonetheless count on to be one of many prime contenders to defend its title.
Reed Sheppard
Whereas there was a perceived drop in star energy in males’s school basketball this season compared with earlier seasons, there’s nonetheless a number of NBA-ready expertise to keep watch over, resembling Kentucky’s Reed Sheppard.
The sharpshooting combo guard is projected to be chosen third total – the best of any school participant – in Bleacher Report’s newest 2024 NBA mock draft, after a late-season surge in scoring seems to have turned the heads of NBA scouts. His potential to fill it up in addition to stifle opponents on the defensive finish make him one to look at within the event.
Zach Edey
One other identify to look out for is Zach Edey. The seven-foot-four, 300lb middle is the tallest participant in Massive Ten convention historical past and the reigning consensus nationwide participant of the 12 months.
Whereas his seemingly unstoppable submit presence and footwork won’t translate to the NBA, he’s a dominant school participant who’s looking for to steer Purdue, one of many event favorites, to a nationwide championship.
CNN
—
The fields are set for March Insanity and it’s time to fill out your brackets.
The boys’s subject is topped by defending champion Connecticut whereas the ladies’s total No. 1 seed is undefeated South Carolina.
The opposite prime seeds for the NCAA Division I males’s basketball event are the Purdue Boilermakers, North Carolina Tar Heels and Houston Cougars.
The ladies’s prime seeds embody the Iowa Hawkeyes, Southern California Trojans and Texas Longhorns.
The occasions start with play-in video games, the First 4, which for the lads will probably be held Tuesday and Wednesday with girls’s contests on Wednesday and Thursday.
The boys’s No. 2 seeds are Iowa State Cyclones, Marquette Golden Eagles, Tennessee Volunteers and Arizona Wildcats.
The Wildcats will face No. 15 seed Lengthy Seaside State, who regardless of firing their head coach earlier this week, gained the Massive West Convention Event to clinch this system’s first NCAA event look since 2012.
Conventional bluebloods Kentucky earned a No. 3 seed whereas Duke and Kansas are each No. 4 seeds.
Girls’s No. 1 total seed South Carolina comes off a second consecutive SEC Event title. The Gamecocks are looking for to develop into the tenth crew in girls’s Division I historical past to complete the season as undefeated champions. They may play towards the winner between First 4 members Sacred Coronary heart and Presbyterian.
Final 12 months, South Carolina went undefeated within the SEC common season and SEC event earlier than being upset by Iowa within the Last 4.
Led by the NCAA’s all-time Division I main scorer Caitlin Clark, the Hawkeyes secured a No. 1 seed for the third time in program historical past and first time since 1992. The Hawkeyes will play towards both Holy Cross or Tennessee-Martin within the first spherical.
Iowa reached the nationwide championship recreation final 12 months however finally fell to Louisiana State, which is a No. 3 seed this 12 months.
Thirty-two groups routinely certified in each the lads’s and girls’s event by advantage of profitable their respective convention tournaments.
A variety committee then decided which different groups obtain certainly one of 36 at-large bids for a complete of 68 groups. These ranked between the No. 64 and No. 68 then play within the First 4 play-in event, in a bid to be a part of the ultimate 64 groups.
Choice Sunday is the tip of weeks of hypothesis as school basketball followers have sought to foretell the exact configuration of groups that can make the ultimate bracket.
Kirk Irwin/Getty Photos
Zach Edey of the Purdue Boilermakers blocks a shot through the second half of a recreation towards Ohio State.
It implies that followers, in addition to simply informal observers, will then be capable of fill of their customary brackets predicting the outcomes of the event, in a nationwide custom that has seen everybody from US Presidents Barack Obama and George H.W. Bush to Jimmy Fallon take part in.
Now that Choice Sunday is all however over, there are solely two days for followers to fill out their brackets earlier than the lads’s event begins on March 19 and the ladies’s event begins the day after. From then on, the video games come thick and quick with the total schedule out there beneath.
Males’s event
First 4: March 19-20
First spherical: March 21-22
Second spherical: March 23-24
Candy 16: March 28-29
Elite Eight: March 30-31
Last 4: Saturday, April 6
NCAA championship recreation: Monday, April 8
Girls’s event
First 4: March 20-21
First spherical: March 22-23
Second spherical: March 24-25
Candy 16: March 29-30
Elite Eight: March 31-April 1
Last 4: Friday, April 5
NCAA championship recreation: Sunday, April 7
Males’s video games, by area
East
Connecticut vs. Stetson; Florida Atlantic vs. Northwestern; San Diego State vs. Alabama at Birmingham; Auburn vs. Yale
Brigham Younger vs. Duquesne; Illinois vs. Morehead State; Washington State vs. Drake; Iowa State vs. South Dakota State
South
Houston vs. Longwood; Nebraska vs. Texas A&M; Wisconsin vs. James Madison; Duke vs. Vermont
Texas Tech vs. NC State; Kentucky vs. Oakland; Florida vs. winner of Boise State-Colorado; Marquette vs. Western Kentucky
Midwest
Purdue vs. winner of Montana State-Grambling State; Utah State vs. Texas Christian; Gonzaga vs. McNeese; Kansas vs. Samford
South Carolina vs. Oregon; Creighton vs. Akron; Texas vs. winner of Virginia-Colorado State; Tennessee vs. Saint Peter’s
West
North Carolina vs. winner of Howard-Wagner; Mississippi State vs. Michigan State; Saint Mary’s (California) vs. Grand Canyon; Alabama vs. Charleston
Clemson vs. New Mexico; Baylor vs. Colgate; Dayton vs. Nevada; Arizona vs. Lengthy Seaside State
Area 1 Albany
South Carolina vs. the winner of Sacred Coronary heart-Presbyterian; North Carolina vs. Michigan State; Indiana vs. Fairfield; Oklahoma vs. Florida Gulf Coast.
Nebraska vs. Texas A&M; Oregon State vs. Jap Washington; Mississippi vs. Marquette; Notre Dame vs. Kent State
Area 2 Albany
Iowa vs. winner of Holy Cross-Tennessee Martin; West Virginia vs. Princeton; Colorado vs. Drake; Kansas State vs. Portland
Louisville vs. Center Tennessee State; Louisiana State vs. Rice; Creighton vs. Nevada-Las Vegas; UCLA vs. California Baptist
Area 3 Portland
Southern California vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi; Kansas vs. Michigan; Baylor vs. winner of Vanderbilt-Columbia; Virginia Tech vs. Marshall
Syracuse vs. winner of Auburn-Arizona; Connecticut vs Jackson State; Duke vs. Richmond; Ohio State vs. Maine
Area 4 Portland
Texas vs. Drexel; Alabama vs. Florida State; Utah vs. South Dakota State; Gonzaga vs. Cal Irvine
Tennessee vs. Inexperienced Bay; North Carolina State vs. Chattanooga; Iowa State vs. Maryland; Stanford vs. Norfolk State
Caitlin Clark
Caitlin Clark has transcended school basketball together with her record-breaking achievements this 12 months, changing into a star able to commanding excessive ticket costs and profitable sponsorship offers. The time period “Clark-onomics” has been coined to explain her big impression off the courtroom, such has been her ubiquity in popular culture.
The 22-year-old has develop into the NCAA Division-I main scorer throughout each males’s and girls’s school basketball this 12 months, and eclipsed NBA star Steph Curry’s report of essentially the most three-pointers hit in a single NCAA Division-1 season.
She is looking for to steer the Iowa Hawkeyes to an NCAA championship title, earlier than heading to the WNBA the place she is projected to be the No. 1 decide on this 12 months’s draft.
Angel Reese
Angel Reese is one other of the event’s greatest stars, following her essential function in propelling LSU to its first ever girls’s school basketball title final 12 months.
Matthew Holst/Getty Photos
Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes celebrates after breaking the NCAA girls’s all-time scoring report final month.
Though LSU earned a No. 3 seed on Choice Sunday after succumbing to defeat towards South Carolina within the SEC Event championship recreation, it’s nonetheless count on to be one of many prime contenders to defend its title.
Reed Sheppard
Whereas there was a perceived drop in star energy in males’s school basketball this season compared with earlier seasons, there’s nonetheless a number of NBA-ready expertise to keep watch over, resembling Kentucky’s Reed Sheppard.
The sharpshooting combo guard is projected to be chosen third total – the best of any school participant – in Bleacher Report’s newest 2024 NBA mock draft, after a late-season surge in scoring seems to have turned the heads of NBA scouts. His potential to fill it up in addition to stifle opponents on the defensive finish make him one to look at within the event.
Zach Edey
One other identify to look out for is Zach Edey. The seven-foot-four, 300lb middle is the tallest participant in Massive Ten convention historical past and the reigning consensus nationwide participant of the 12 months.
Whereas his seemingly unstoppable submit presence and footwork won’t translate to the NBA, he’s a dominant school participant who’s looking for to steer Purdue, one of many event favorites, to a nationwide championship.
CNN
—
The fields are set for March Insanity and it’s time to fill out your brackets.
The boys’s subject is topped by defending champion Connecticut whereas the ladies’s total No. 1 seed is undefeated South Carolina.
The opposite prime seeds for the NCAA Division I males’s basketball event are the Purdue Boilermakers, North Carolina Tar Heels and Houston Cougars.
The ladies’s prime seeds embody the Iowa Hawkeyes, Southern California Trojans and Texas Longhorns.
The occasions start with play-in video games, the First 4, which for the lads will probably be held Tuesday and Wednesday with girls’s contests on Wednesday and Thursday.
The boys’s No. 2 seeds are Iowa State Cyclones, Marquette Golden Eagles, Tennessee Volunteers and Arizona Wildcats.
The Wildcats will face No. 15 seed Lengthy Seaside State, who regardless of firing their head coach earlier this week, gained the Massive West Convention Event to clinch this system’s first NCAA event look since 2012.
Conventional bluebloods Kentucky earned a No. 3 seed whereas Duke and Kansas are each No. 4 seeds.
Girls’s No. 1 total seed South Carolina comes off a second consecutive SEC Event title. The Gamecocks are looking for to develop into the tenth crew in girls’s Division I historical past to complete the season as undefeated champions. They may play towards the winner between First 4 members Sacred Coronary heart and Presbyterian.
Final 12 months, South Carolina went undefeated within the SEC common season and SEC event earlier than being upset by Iowa within the Last 4.
Led by the NCAA’s all-time Division I main scorer Caitlin Clark, the Hawkeyes secured a No. 1 seed for the third time in program historical past and first time since 1992. The Hawkeyes will play towards both Holy Cross or Tennessee-Martin within the first spherical.
Iowa reached the nationwide championship recreation final 12 months however finally fell to Louisiana State, which is a No. 3 seed this 12 months.
Thirty-two groups routinely certified in each the lads’s and girls’s event by advantage of profitable their respective convention tournaments.
A variety committee then decided which different groups obtain certainly one of 36 at-large bids for a complete of 68 groups. These ranked between the No. 64 and No. 68 then play within the First 4 play-in event, in a bid to be a part of the ultimate 64 groups.
Choice Sunday is the tip of weeks of hypothesis as school basketball followers have sought to foretell the exact configuration of groups that can make the ultimate bracket.
Kirk Irwin/Getty Photos
Zach Edey of the Purdue Boilermakers blocks a shot through the second half of a recreation towards Ohio State.
It implies that followers, in addition to simply informal observers, will then be capable of fill of their customary brackets predicting the outcomes of the event, in a nationwide custom that has seen everybody from US Presidents Barack Obama and George H.W. Bush to Jimmy Fallon take part in.
Now that Choice Sunday is all however over, there are solely two days for followers to fill out their brackets earlier than the lads’s event begins on March 19 and the ladies’s event begins the day after. From then on, the video games come thick and quick with the total schedule out there beneath.
Males’s event
First 4: March 19-20
First spherical: March 21-22
Second spherical: March 23-24
Candy 16: March 28-29
Elite Eight: March 30-31
Last 4: Saturday, April 6
NCAA championship recreation: Monday, April 8
Girls’s event
First 4: March 20-21
First spherical: March 22-23
Second spherical: March 24-25
Candy 16: March 29-30
Elite Eight: March 31-April 1
Last 4: Friday, April 5
NCAA championship recreation: Sunday, April 7
Males’s video games, by area
East
Connecticut vs. Stetson; Florida Atlantic vs. Northwestern; San Diego State vs. Alabama at Birmingham; Auburn vs. Yale
Brigham Younger vs. Duquesne; Illinois vs. Morehead State; Washington State vs. Drake; Iowa State vs. South Dakota State
South
Houston vs. Longwood; Nebraska vs. Texas A&M; Wisconsin vs. James Madison; Duke vs. Vermont
Texas Tech vs. NC State; Kentucky vs. Oakland; Florida vs. winner of Boise State-Colorado; Marquette vs. Western Kentucky
Midwest
Purdue vs. winner of Montana State-Grambling State; Utah State vs. Texas Christian; Gonzaga vs. McNeese; Kansas vs. Samford
South Carolina vs. Oregon; Creighton vs. Akron; Texas vs. winner of Virginia-Colorado State; Tennessee vs. Saint Peter’s
West
North Carolina vs. winner of Howard-Wagner; Mississippi State vs. Michigan State; Saint Mary’s (California) vs. Grand Canyon; Alabama vs. Charleston
Clemson vs. New Mexico; Baylor vs. Colgate; Dayton vs. Nevada; Arizona vs. Lengthy Seaside State
Area 1 Albany
South Carolina vs. the winner of Sacred Coronary heart-Presbyterian; North Carolina vs. Michigan State; Indiana vs. Fairfield; Oklahoma vs. Florida Gulf Coast.
Nebraska vs. Texas A&M; Oregon State vs. Jap Washington; Mississippi vs. Marquette; Notre Dame vs. Kent State
Area 2 Albany
Iowa vs. winner of Holy Cross-Tennessee Martin; West Virginia vs. Princeton; Colorado vs. Drake; Kansas State vs. Portland
Louisville vs. Center Tennessee State; Louisiana State vs. Rice; Creighton vs. Nevada-Las Vegas; UCLA vs. California Baptist
Area 3 Portland
Southern California vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi; Kansas vs. Michigan; Baylor vs. winner of Vanderbilt-Columbia; Virginia Tech vs. Marshall
Syracuse vs. winner of Auburn-Arizona; Connecticut vs Jackson State; Duke vs. Richmond; Ohio State vs. Maine
Area 4 Portland
Texas vs. Drexel; Alabama vs. Florida State; Utah vs. South Dakota State; Gonzaga vs. Cal Irvine
Tennessee vs. Inexperienced Bay; North Carolina State vs. Chattanooga; Iowa State vs. Maryland; Stanford vs. Norfolk State
Caitlin Clark
Caitlin Clark has transcended school basketball together with her record-breaking achievements this 12 months, changing into a star able to commanding excessive ticket costs and profitable sponsorship offers. The time period “Clark-onomics” has been coined to explain her big impression off the courtroom, such has been her ubiquity in popular culture.
The 22-year-old has develop into the NCAA Division-I main scorer throughout each males’s and girls’s school basketball this 12 months, and eclipsed NBA star Steph Curry’s report of essentially the most three-pointers hit in a single NCAA Division-1 season.
She is looking for to steer the Iowa Hawkeyes to an NCAA championship title, earlier than heading to the WNBA the place she is projected to be the No. 1 decide on this 12 months’s draft.
Angel Reese
Angel Reese is one other of the event’s greatest stars, following her essential function in propelling LSU to its first ever girls’s school basketball title final 12 months.
Matthew Holst/Getty Photos
Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes celebrates after breaking the NCAA girls’s all-time scoring report final month.
Though LSU earned a No. 3 seed on Choice Sunday after succumbing to defeat towards South Carolina within the SEC Event championship recreation, it’s nonetheless count on to be one of many prime contenders to defend its title.
Reed Sheppard
Whereas there was a perceived drop in star energy in males’s school basketball this season compared with earlier seasons, there’s nonetheless a number of NBA-ready expertise to keep watch over, resembling Kentucky’s Reed Sheppard.
The sharpshooting combo guard is projected to be chosen third total – the best of any school participant – in Bleacher Report’s newest 2024 NBA mock draft, after a late-season surge in scoring seems to have turned the heads of NBA scouts. His potential to fill it up in addition to stifle opponents on the defensive finish make him one to look at within the event.
Zach Edey
One other identify to look out for is Zach Edey. The seven-foot-four, 300lb middle is the tallest participant in Massive Ten convention historical past and the reigning consensus nationwide participant of the 12 months.
Whereas his seemingly unstoppable submit presence and footwork won’t translate to the NBA, he’s a dominant school participant who’s looking for to steer Purdue, one of many event favorites, to a nationwide championship.
CNN
—
The fields are set for March Insanity and it’s time to fill out your brackets.
The boys’s subject is topped by defending champion Connecticut whereas the ladies’s total No. 1 seed is undefeated South Carolina.
The opposite prime seeds for the NCAA Division I males’s basketball event are the Purdue Boilermakers, North Carolina Tar Heels and Houston Cougars.
The ladies’s prime seeds embody the Iowa Hawkeyes, Southern California Trojans and Texas Longhorns.
The occasions start with play-in video games, the First 4, which for the lads will probably be held Tuesday and Wednesday with girls’s contests on Wednesday and Thursday.
The boys’s No. 2 seeds are Iowa State Cyclones, Marquette Golden Eagles, Tennessee Volunteers and Arizona Wildcats.
The Wildcats will face No. 15 seed Lengthy Seaside State, who regardless of firing their head coach earlier this week, gained the Massive West Convention Event to clinch this system’s first NCAA event look since 2012.
Conventional bluebloods Kentucky earned a No. 3 seed whereas Duke and Kansas are each No. 4 seeds.
Girls’s No. 1 total seed South Carolina comes off a second consecutive SEC Event title. The Gamecocks are looking for to develop into the tenth crew in girls’s Division I historical past to complete the season as undefeated champions. They may play towards the winner between First 4 members Sacred Coronary heart and Presbyterian.
Final 12 months, South Carolina went undefeated within the SEC common season and SEC event earlier than being upset by Iowa within the Last 4.
Led by the NCAA’s all-time Division I main scorer Caitlin Clark, the Hawkeyes secured a No. 1 seed for the third time in program historical past and first time since 1992. The Hawkeyes will play towards both Holy Cross or Tennessee-Martin within the first spherical.
Iowa reached the nationwide championship recreation final 12 months however finally fell to Louisiana State, which is a No. 3 seed this 12 months.
Thirty-two groups routinely certified in each the lads’s and girls’s event by advantage of profitable their respective convention tournaments.
A variety committee then decided which different groups obtain certainly one of 36 at-large bids for a complete of 68 groups. These ranked between the No. 64 and No. 68 then play within the First 4 play-in event, in a bid to be a part of the ultimate 64 groups.
Choice Sunday is the tip of weeks of hypothesis as school basketball followers have sought to foretell the exact configuration of groups that can make the ultimate bracket.
Kirk Irwin/Getty Photos
Zach Edey of the Purdue Boilermakers blocks a shot through the second half of a recreation towards Ohio State.
It implies that followers, in addition to simply informal observers, will then be capable of fill of their customary brackets predicting the outcomes of the event, in a nationwide custom that has seen everybody from US Presidents Barack Obama and George H.W. Bush to Jimmy Fallon take part in.
Now that Choice Sunday is all however over, there are solely two days for followers to fill out their brackets earlier than the lads’s event begins on March 19 and the ladies’s event begins the day after. From then on, the video games come thick and quick with the total schedule out there beneath.
Males’s event
First 4: March 19-20
First spherical: March 21-22
Second spherical: March 23-24
Candy 16: March 28-29
Elite Eight: March 30-31
Last 4: Saturday, April 6
NCAA championship recreation: Monday, April 8
Girls’s event
First 4: March 20-21
First spherical: March 22-23
Second spherical: March 24-25
Candy 16: March 29-30
Elite Eight: March 31-April 1
Last 4: Friday, April 5
NCAA championship recreation: Sunday, April 7
Males’s video games, by area
East
Connecticut vs. Stetson; Florida Atlantic vs. Northwestern; San Diego State vs. Alabama at Birmingham; Auburn vs. Yale
Brigham Younger vs. Duquesne; Illinois vs. Morehead State; Washington State vs. Drake; Iowa State vs. South Dakota State
South
Houston vs. Longwood; Nebraska vs. Texas A&M; Wisconsin vs. James Madison; Duke vs. Vermont
Texas Tech vs. NC State; Kentucky vs. Oakland; Florida vs. winner of Boise State-Colorado; Marquette vs. Western Kentucky
Midwest
Purdue vs. winner of Montana State-Grambling State; Utah State vs. Texas Christian; Gonzaga vs. McNeese; Kansas vs. Samford
South Carolina vs. Oregon; Creighton vs. Akron; Texas vs. winner of Virginia-Colorado State; Tennessee vs. Saint Peter’s
West
North Carolina vs. winner of Howard-Wagner; Mississippi State vs. Michigan State; Saint Mary’s (California) vs. Grand Canyon; Alabama vs. Charleston
Clemson vs. New Mexico; Baylor vs. Colgate; Dayton vs. Nevada; Arizona vs. Lengthy Seaside State
Area 1 Albany
South Carolina vs. the winner of Sacred Coronary heart-Presbyterian; North Carolina vs. Michigan State; Indiana vs. Fairfield; Oklahoma vs. Florida Gulf Coast.
Nebraska vs. Texas A&M; Oregon State vs. Jap Washington; Mississippi vs. Marquette; Notre Dame vs. Kent State
Area 2 Albany
Iowa vs. winner of Holy Cross-Tennessee Martin; West Virginia vs. Princeton; Colorado vs. Drake; Kansas State vs. Portland
Louisville vs. Center Tennessee State; Louisiana State vs. Rice; Creighton vs. Nevada-Las Vegas; UCLA vs. California Baptist
Area 3 Portland
Southern California vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi; Kansas vs. Michigan; Baylor vs. winner of Vanderbilt-Columbia; Virginia Tech vs. Marshall
Syracuse vs. winner of Auburn-Arizona; Connecticut vs Jackson State; Duke vs. Richmond; Ohio State vs. Maine
Area 4 Portland
Texas vs. Drexel; Alabama vs. Florida State; Utah vs. South Dakota State; Gonzaga vs. Cal Irvine
Tennessee vs. Inexperienced Bay; North Carolina State vs. Chattanooga; Iowa State vs. Maryland; Stanford vs. Norfolk State
Caitlin Clark
Caitlin Clark has transcended school basketball together with her record-breaking achievements this 12 months, changing into a star able to commanding excessive ticket costs and profitable sponsorship offers. The time period “Clark-onomics” has been coined to explain her big impression off the courtroom, such has been her ubiquity in popular culture.
The 22-year-old has develop into the NCAA Division-I main scorer throughout each males’s and girls’s school basketball this 12 months, and eclipsed NBA star Steph Curry’s report of essentially the most three-pointers hit in a single NCAA Division-1 season.
She is looking for to steer the Iowa Hawkeyes to an NCAA championship title, earlier than heading to the WNBA the place she is projected to be the No. 1 decide on this 12 months’s draft.
Angel Reese
Angel Reese is one other of the event’s greatest stars, following her essential function in propelling LSU to its first ever girls’s school basketball title final 12 months.
Matthew Holst/Getty Photos
Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes celebrates after breaking the NCAA girls’s all-time scoring report final month.
Though LSU earned a No. 3 seed on Choice Sunday after succumbing to defeat towards South Carolina within the SEC Event championship recreation, it’s nonetheless count on to be one of many prime contenders to defend its title.
Reed Sheppard
Whereas there was a perceived drop in star energy in males’s school basketball this season compared with earlier seasons, there’s nonetheless a number of NBA-ready expertise to keep watch over, resembling Kentucky’s Reed Sheppard.
The sharpshooting combo guard is projected to be chosen third total – the best of any school participant – in Bleacher Report’s newest 2024 NBA mock draft, after a late-season surge in scoring seems to have turned the heads of NBA scouts. His potential to fill it up in addition to stifle opponents on the defensive finish make him one to look at within the event.
Zach Edey
One other identify to look out for is Zach Edey. The seven-foot-four, 300lb middle is the tallest participant in Massive Ten convention historical past and the reigning consensus nationwide participant of the 12 months.
Whereas his seemingly unstoppable submit presence and footwork won’t translate to the NBA, he’s a dominant school participant who’s looking for to steer Purdue, one of many event favorites, to a nationwide championship.
CNN
—
The fields are set for March Insanity and it’s time to fill out your brackets.
The boys’s subject is topped by defending champion Connecticut whereas the ladies’s total No. 1 seed is undefeated South Carolina.
The opposite prime seeds for the NCAA Division I males’s basketball event are the Purdue Boilermakers, North Carolina Tar Heels and Houston Cougars.
The ladies’s prime seeds embody the Iowa Hawkeyes, Southern California Trojans and Texas Longhorns.
The occasions start with play-in video games, the First 4, which for the lads will probably be held Tuesday and Wednesday with girls’s contests on Wednesday and Thursday.
The boys’s No. 2 seeds are Iowa State Cyclones, Marquette Golden Eagles, Tennessee Volunteers and Arizona Wildcats.
The Wildcats will face No. 15 seed Lengthy Seaside State, who regardless of firing their head coach earlier this week, gained the Massive West Convention Event to clinch this system’s first NCAA event look since 2012.
Conventional bluebloods Kentucky earned a No. 3 seed whereas Duke and Kansas are each No. 4 seeds.
Girls’s No. 1 total seed South Carolina comes off a second consecutive SEC Event title. The Gamecocks are looking for to develop into the tenth crew in girls’s Division I historical past to complete the season as undefeated champions. They may play towards the winner between First 4 members Sacred Coronary heart and Presbyterian.
Final 12 months, South Carolina went undefeated within the SEC common season and SEC event earlier than being upset by Iowa within the Last 4.
Led by the NCAA’s all-time Division I main scorer Caitlin Clark, the Hawkeyes secured a No. 1 seed for the third time in program historical past and first time since 1992. The Hawkeyes will play towards both Holy Cross or Tennessee-Martin within the first spherical.
Iowa reached the nationwide championship recreation final 12 months however finally fell to Louisiana State, which is a No. 3 seed this 12 months.
Thirty-two groups routinely certified in each the lads’s and girls’s event by advantage of profitable their respective convention tournaments.
A variety committee then decided which different groups obtain certainly one of 36 at-large bids for a complete of 68 groups. These ranked between the No. 64 and No. 68 then play within the First 4 play-in event, in a bid to be a part of the ultimate 64 groups.
Choice Sunday is the tip of weeks of hypothesis as school basketball followers have sought to foretell the exact configuration of groups that can make the ultimate bracket.
Kirk Irwin/Getty Photos
Zach Edey of the Purdue Boilermakers blocks a shot through the second half of a recreation towards Ohio State.
It implies that followers, in addition to simply informal observers, will then be capable of fill of their customary brackets predicting the outcomes of the event, in a nationwide custom that has seen everybody from US Presidents Barack Obama and George H.W. Bush to Jimmy Fallon take part in.
Now that Choice Sunday is all however over, there are solely two days for followers to fill out their brackets earlier than the lads’s event begins on March 19 and the ladies’s event begins the day after. From then on, the video games come thick and quick with the total schedule out there beneath.
Males’s event
First 4: March 19-20
First spherical: March 21-22
Second spherical: March 23-24
Candy 16: March 28-29
Elite Eight: March 30-31
Last 4: Saturday, April 6
NCAA championship recreation: Monday, April 8
Girls’s event
First 4: March 20-21
First spherical: March 22-23
Second spherical: March 24-25
Candy 16: March 29-30
Elite Eight: March 31-April 1
Last 4: Friday, April 5
NCAA championship recreation: Sunday, April 7
Males’s video games, by area
East
Connecticut vs. Stetson; Florida Atlantic vs. Northwestern; San Diego State vs. Alabama at Birmingham; Auburn vs. Yale
Brigham Younger vs. Duquesne; Illinois vs. Morehead State; Washington State vs. Drake; Iowa State vs. South Dakota State
South
Houston vs. Longwood; Nebraska vs. Texas A&M; Wisconsin vs. James Madison; Duke vs. Vermont
Texas Tech vs. NC State; Kentucky vs. Oakland; Florida vs. winner of Boise State-Colorado; Marquette vs. Western Kentucky
Midwest
Purdue vs. winner of Montana State-Grambling State; Utah State vs. Texas Christian; Gonzaga vs. McNeese; Kansas vs. Samford
South Carolina vs. Oregon; Creighton vs. Akron; Texas vs. winner of Virginia-Colorado State; Tennessee vs. Saint Peter’s
West
North Carolina vs. winner of Howard-Wagner; Mississippi State vs. Michigan State; Saint Mary’s (California) vs. Grand Canyon; Alabama vs. Charleston
Clemson vs. New Mexico; Baylor vs. Colgate; Dayton vs. Nevada; Arizona vs. Lengthy Seaside State
Area 1 Albany
South Carolina vs. the winner of Sacred Coronary heart-Presbyterian; North Carolina vs. Michigan State; Indiana vs. Fairfield; Oklahoma vs. Florida Gulf Coast.
Nebraska vs. Texas A&M; Oregon State vs. Jap Washington; Mississippi vs. Marquette; Notre Dame vs. Kent State
Area 2 Albany
Iowa vs. winner of Holy Cross-Tennessee Martin; West Virginia vs. Princeton; Colorado vs. Drake; Kansas State vs. Portland
Louisville vs. Center Tennessee State; Louisiana State vs. Rice; Creighton vs. Nevada-Las Vegas; UCLA vs. California Baptist
Area 3 Portland
Southern California vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi; Kansas vs. Michigan; Baylor vs. winner of Vanderbilt-Columbia; Virginia Tech vs. Marshall
Syracuse vs. winner of Auburn-Arizona; Connecticut vs Jackson State; Duke vs. Richmond; Ohio State vs. Maine
Area 4 Portland
Texas vs. Drexel; Alabama vs. Florida State; Utah vs. South Dakota State; Gonzaga vs. Cal Irvine
Tennessee vs. Inexperienced Bay; North Carolina State vs. Chattanooga; Iowa State vs. Maryland; Stanford vs. Norfolk State
Caitlin Clark
Caitlin Clark has transcended school basketball together with her record-breaking achievements this 12 months, changing into a star able to commanding excessive ticket costs and profitable sponsorship offers. The time period “Clark-onomics” has been coined to explain her big impression off the courtroom, such has been her ubiquity in popular culture.
The 22-year-old has develop into the NCAA Division-I main scorer throughout each males’s and girls’s school basketball this 12 months, and eclipsed NBA star Steph Curry’s report of essentially the most three-pointers hit in a single NCAA Division-1 season.
She is looking for to steer the Iowa Hawkeyes to an NCAA championship title, earlier than heading to the WNBA the place she is projected to be the No. 1 decide on this 12 months’s draft.
Angel Reese
Angel Reese is one other of the event’s greatest stars, following her essential function in propelling LSU to its first ever girls’s school basketball title final 12 months.
Matthew Holst/Getty Photos
Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes celebrates after breaking the NCAA girls’s all-time scoring report final month.
Though LSU earned a No. 3 seed on Choice Sunday after succumbing to defeat towards South Carolina within the SEC Event championship recreation, it’s nonetheless count on to be one of many prime contenders to defend its title.
Reed Sheppard
Whereas there was a perceived drop in star energy in males’s school basketball this season compared with earlier seasons, there’s nonetheless a number of NBA-ready expertise to keep watch over, resembling Kentucky’s Reed Sheppard.
The sharpshooting combo guard is projected to be chosen third total – the best of any school participant – in Bleacher Report’s newest 2024 NBA mock draft, after a late-season surge in scoring seems to have turned the heads of NBA scouts. His potential to fill it up in addition to stifle opponents on the defensive finish make him one to look at within the event.
Zach Edey
One other identify to look out for is Zach Edey. The seven-foot-four, 300lb middle is the tallest participant in Massive Ten convention historical past and the reigning consensus nationwide participant of the 12 months.
Whereas his seemingly unstoppable submit presence and footwork won’t translate to the NBA, he’s a dominant school participant who’s looking for to steer Purdue, one of many event favorites, to a nationwide championship.
CNN
—
The fields are set for March Insanity and it’s time to fill out your brackets.
The boys’s subject is topped by defending champion Connecticut whereas the ladies’s total No. 1 seed is undefeated South Carolina.
The opposite prime seeds for the NCAA Division I males’s basketball event are the Purdue Boilermakers, North Carolina Tar Heels and Houston Cougars.
The ladies’s prime seeds embody the Iowa Hawkeyes, Southern California Trojans and Texas Longhorns.
The occasions start with play-in video games, the First 4, which for the lads will probably be held Tuesday and Wednesday with girls’s contests on Wednesday and Thursday.
The boys’s No. 2 seeds are Iowa State Cyclones, Marquette Golden Eagles, Tennessee Volunteers and Arizona Wildcats.
The Wildcats will face No. 15 seed Lengthy Seaside State, who regardless of firing their head coach earlier this week, gained the Massive West Convention Event to clinch this system’s first NCAA event look since 2012.
Conventional bluebloods Kentucky earned a No. 3 seed whereas Duke and Kansas are each No. 4 seeds.
Girls’s No. 1 total seed South Carolina comes off a second consecutive SEC Event title. The Gamecocks are looking for to develop into the tenth crew in girls’s Division I historical past to complete the season as undefeated champions. They may play towards the winner between First 4 members Sacred Coronary heart and Presbyterian.
Final 12 months, South Carolina went undefeated within the SEC common season and SEC event earlier than being upset by Iowa within the Last 4.
Led by the NCAA’s all-time Division I main scorer Caitlin Clark, the Hawkeyes secured a No. 1 seed for the third time in program historical past and first time since 1992. The Hawkeyes will play towards both Holy Cross or Tennessee-Martin within the first spherical.
Iowa reached the nationwide championship recreation final 12 months however finally fell to Louisiana State, which is a No. 3 seed this 12 months.
Thirty-two groups routinely certified in each the lads’s and girls’s event by advantage of profitable their respective convention tournaments.
A variety committee then decided which different groups obtain certainly one of 36 at-large bids for a complete of 68 groups. These ranked between the No. 64 and No. 68 then play within the First 4 play-in event, in a bid to be a part of the ultimate 64 groups.
Choice Sunday is the tip of weeks of hypothesis as school basketball followers have sought to foretell the exact configuration of groups that can make the ultimate bracket.
Kirk Irwin/Getty Photos
Zach Edey of the Purdue Boilermakers blocks a shot through the second half of a recreation towards Ohio State.
It implies that followers, in addition to simply informal observers, will then be capable of fill of their customary brackets predicting the outcomes of the event, in a nationwide custom that has seen everybody from US Presidents Barack Obama and George H.W. Bush to Jimmy Fallon take part in.
Now that Choice Sunday is all however over, there are solely two days for followers to fill out their brackets earlier than the lads’s event begins on March 19 and the ladies’s event begins the day after. From then on, the video games come thick and quick with the total schedule out there beneath.
Males’s event
First 4: March 19-20
First spherical: March 21-22
Second spherical: March 23-24
Candy 16: March 28-29
Elite Eight: March 30-31
Last 4: Saturday, April 6
NCAA championship recreation: Monday, April 8
Girls’s event
First 4: March 20-21
First spherical: March 22-23
Second spherical: March 24-25
Candy 16: March 29-30
Elite Eight: March 31-April 1
Last 4: Friday, April 5
NCAA championship recreation: Sunday, April 7
Males’s video games, by area
East
Connecticut vs. Stetson; Florida Atlantic vs. Northwestern; San Diego State vs. Alabama at Birmingham; Auburn vs. Yale
Brigham Younger vs. Duquesne; Illinois vs. Morehead State; Washington State vs. Drake; Iowa State vs. South Dakota State
South
Houston vs. Longwood; Nebraska vs. Texas A&M; Wisconsin vs. James Madison; Duke vs. Vermont
Texas Tech vs. NC State; Kentucky vs. Oakland; Florida vs. winner of Boise State-Colorado; Marquette vs. Western Kentucky
Midwest
Purdue vs. winner of Montana State-Grambling State; Utah State vs. Texas Christian; Gonzaga vs. McNeese; Kansas vs. Samford
South Carolina vs. Oregon; Creighton vs. Akron; Texas vs. winner of Virginia-Colorado State; Tennessee vs. Saint Peter’s
West
North Carolina vs. winner of Howard-Wagner; Mississippi State vs. Michigan State; Saint Mary’s (California) vs. Grand Canyon; Alabama vs. Charleston
Clemson vs. New Mexico; Baylor vs. Colgate; Dayton vs. Nevada; Arizona vs. Lengthy Seaside State
Area 1 Albany
South Carolina vs. the winner of Sacred Coronary heart-Presbyterian; North Carolina vs. Michigan State; Indiana vs. Fairfield; Oklahoma vs. Florida Gulf Coast.
Nebraska vs. Texas A&M; Oregon State vs. Jap Washington; Mississippi vs. Marquette; Notre Dame vs. Kent State
Area 2 Albany
Iowa vs. winner of Holy Cross-Tennessee Martin; West Virginia vs. Princeton; Colorado vs. Drake; Kansas State vs. Portland
Louisville vs. Center Tennessee State; Louisiana State vs. Rice; Creighton vs. Nevada-Las Vegas; UCLA vs. California Baptist
Area 3 Portland
Southern California vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi; Kansas vs. Michigan; Baylor vs. winner of Vanderbilt-Columbia; Virginia Tech vs. Marshall
Syracuse vs. winner of Auburn-Arizona; Connecticut vs Jackson State; Duke vs. Richmond; Ohio State vs. Maine
Area 4 Portland
Texas vs. Drexel; Alabama vs. Florida State; Utah vs. South Dakota State; Gonzaga vs. Cal Irvine
Tennessee vs. Inexperienced Bay; North Carolina State vs. Chattanooga; Iowa State vs. Maryland; Stanford vs. Norfolk State
Caitlin Clark
Caitlin Clark has transcended school basketball together with her record-breaking achievements this 12 months, changing into a star able to commanding excessive ticket costs and profitable sponsorship offers. The time period “Clark-onomics” has been coined to explain her big impression off the courtroom, such has been her ubiquity in popular culture.
The 22-year-old has develop into the NCAA Division-I main scorer throughout each males’s and girls’s school basketball this 12 months, and eclipsed NBA star Steph Curry’s report of essentially the most three-pointers hit in a single NCAA Division-1 season.
She is looking for to steer the Iowa Hawkeyes to an NCAA championship title, earlier than heading to the WNBA the place she is projected to be the No. 1 decide on this 12 months’s draft.
Angel Reese
Angel Reese is one other of the event’s greatest stars, following her essential function in propelling LSU to its first ever girls’s school basketball title final 12 months.
Matthew Holst/Getty Photos
Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes celebrates after breaking the NCAA girls’s all-time scoring report final month.
Though LSU earned a No. 3 seed on Choice Sunday after succumbing to defeat towards South Carolina within the SEC Event championship recreation, it’s nonetheless count on to be one of many prime contenders to defend its title.
Reed Sheppard
Whereas there was a perceived drop in star energy in males’s school basketball this season compared with earlier seasons, there’s nonetheless a number of NBA-ready expertise to keep watch over, resembling Kentucky’s Reed Sheppard.
The sharpshooting combo guard is projected to be chosen third total – the best of any school participant – in Bleacher Report’s newest 2024 NBA mock draft, after a late-season surge in scoring seems to have turned the heads of NBA scouts. His potential to fill it up in addition to stifle opponents on the defensive finish make him one to look at within the event.
Zach Edey
One other identify to look out for is Zach Edey. The seven-foot-four, 300lb middle is the tallest participant in Massive Ten convention historical past and the reigning consensus nationwide participant of the 12 months.
Whereas his seemingly unstoppable submit presence and footwork won’t translate to the NBA, he’s a dominant school participant who’s looking for to steer Purdue, one of many event favorites, to a nationwide championship.
CNN
—
The fields are set for March Insanity and it’s time to fill out your brackets.
The boys’s subject is topped by defending champion Connecticut whereas the ladies’s total No. 1 seed is undefeated South Carolina.
The opposite prime seeds for the NCAA Division I males’s basketball event are the Purdue Boilermakers, North Carolina Tar Heels and Houston Cougars.
The ladies’s prime seeds embody the Iowa Hawkeyes, Southern California Trojans and Texas Longhorns.
The occasions start with play-in video games, the First 4, which for the lads will probably be held Tuesday and Wednesday with girls’s contests on Wednesday and Thursday.
The boys’s No. 2 seeds are Iowa State Cyclones, Marquette Golden Eagles, Tennessee Volunteers and Arizona Wildcats.
The Wildcats will face No. 15 seed Lengthy Seaside State, who regardless of firing their head coach earlier this week, gained the Massive West Convention Event to clinch this system’s first NCAA event look since 2012.
Conventional bluebloods Kentucky earned a No. 3 seed whereas Duke and Kansas are each No. 4 seeds.
Girls’s No. 1 total seed South Carolina comes off a second consecutive SEC Event title. The Gamecocks are looking for to develop into the tenth crew in girls’s Division I historical past to complete the season as undefeated champions. They may play towards the winner between First 4 members Sacred Coronary heart and Presbyterian.
Final 12 months, South Carolina went undefeated within the SEC common season and SEC event earlier than being upset by Iowa within the Last 4.
Led by the NCAA’s all-time Division I main scorer Caitlin Clark, the Hawkeyes secured a No. 1 seed for the third time in program historical past and first time since 1992. The Hawkeyes will play towards both Holy Cross or Tennessee-Martin within the first spherical.
Iowa reached the nationwide championship recreation final 12 months however finally fell to Louisiana State, which is a No. 3 seed this 12 months.
Thirty-two groups routinely certified in each the lads’s and girls’s event by advantage of profitable their respective convention tournaments.
A variety committee then decided which different groups obtain certainly one of 36 at-large bids for a complete of 68 groups. These ranked between the No. 64 and No. 68 then play within the First 4 play-in event, in a bid to be a part of the ultimate 64 groups.
Choice Sunday is the tip of weeks of hypothesis as school basketball followers have sought to foretell the exact configuration of groups that can make the ultimate bracket.
Kirk Irwin/Getty Photos
Zach Edey of the Purdue Boilermakers blocks a shot through the second half of a recreation towards Ohio State.
It implies that followers, in addition to simply informal observers, will then be capable of fill of their customary brackets predicting the outcomes of the event, in a nationwide custom that has seen everybody from US Presidents Barack Obama and George H.W. Bush to Jimmy Fallon take part in.
Now that Choice Sunday is all however over, there are solely two days for followers to fill out their brackets earlier than the lads’s event begins on March 19 and the ladies’s event begins the day after. From then on, the video games come thick and quick with the total schedule out there beneath.
Males’s event
First 4: March 19-20
First spherical: March 21-22
Second spherical: March 23-24
Candy 16: March 28-29
Elite Eight: March 30-31
Last 4: Saturday, April 6
NCAA championship recreation: Monday, April 8
Girls’s event
First 4: March 20-21
First spherical: March 22-23
Second spherical: March 24-25
Candy 16: March 29-30
Elite Eight: March 31-April 1
Last 4: Friday, April 5
NCAA championship recreation: Sunday, April 7
Males’s video games, by area
East
Connecticut vs. Stetson; Florida Atlantic vs. Northwestern; San Diego State vs. Alabama at Birmingham; Auburn vs. Yale
Brigham Younger vs. Duquesne; Illinois vs. Morehead State; Washington State vs. Drake; Iowa State vs. South Dakota State
South
Houston vs. Longwood; Nebraska vs. Texas A&M; Wisconsin vs. James Madison; Duke vs. Vermont
Texas Tech vs. NC State; Kentucky vs. Oakland; Florida vs. winner of Boise State-Colorado; Marquette vs. Western Kentucky
Midwest
Purdue vs. winner of Montana State-Grambling State; Utah State vs. Texas Christian; Gonzaga vs. McNeese; Kansas vs. Samford
South Carolina vs. Oregon; Creighton vs. Akron; Texas vs. winner of Virginia-Colorado State; Tennessee vs. Saint Peter’s
West
North Carolina vs. winner of Howard-Wagner; Mississippi State vs. Michigan State; Saint Mary’s (California) vs. Grand Canyon; Alabama vs. Charleston
Clemson vs. New Mexico; Baylor vs. Colgate; Dayton vs. Nevada; Arizona vs. Lengthy Seaside State
Area 1 Albany
South Carolina vs. the winner of Sacred Coronary heart-Presbyterian; North Carolina vs. Michigan State; Indiana vs. Fairfield; Oklahoma vs. Florida Gulf Coast.
Nebraska vs. Texas A&M; Oregon State vs. Jap Washington; Mississippi vs. Marquette; Notre Dame vs. Kent State
Area 2 Albany
Iowa vs. winner of Holy Cross-Tennessee Martin; West Virginia vs. Princeton; Colorado vs. Drake; Kansas State vs. Portland
Louisville vs. Center Tennessee State; Louisiana State vs. Rice; Creighton vs. Nevada-Las Vegas; UCLA vs. California Baptist
Area 3 Portland
Southern California vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi; Kansas vs. Michigan; Baylor vs. winner of Vanderbilt-Columbia; Virginia Tech vs. Marshall
Syracuse vs. winner of Auburn-Arizona; Connecticut vs Jackson State; Duke vs. Richmond; Ohio State vs. Maine
Area 4 Portland
Texas vs. Drexel; Alabama vs. Florida State; Utah vs. South Dakota State; Gonzaga vs. Cal Irvine
Tennessee vs. Inexperienced Bay; North Carolina State vs. Chattanooga; Iowa State vs. Maryland; Stanford vs. Norfolk State
Caitlin Clark
Caitlin Clark has transcended school basketball together with her record-breaking achievements this 12 months, changing into a star able to commanding excessive ticket costs and profitable sponsorship offers. The time period “Clark-onomics” has been coined to explain her big impression off the courtroom, such has been her ubiquity in popular culture.
The 22-year-old has develop into the NCAA Division-I main scorer throughout each males’s and girls’s school basketball this 12 months, and eclipsed NBA star Steph Curry’s report of essentially the most three-pointers hit in a single NCAA Division-1 season.
She is looking for to steer the Iowa Hawkeyes to an NCAA championship title, earlier than heading to the WNBA the place she is projected to be the No. 1 decide on this 12 months’s draft.
Angel Reese
Angel Reese is one other of the event’s greatest stars, following her essential function in propelling LSU to its first ever girls’s school basketball title final 12 months.
Matthew Holst/Getty Photos
Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes celebrates after breaking the NCAA girls’s all-time scoring report final month.
Though LSU earned a No. 3 seed on Choice Sunday after succumbing to defeat towards South Carolina within the SEC Event championship recreation, it’s nonetheless count on to be one of many prime contenders to defend its title.
Reed Sheppard
Whereas there was a perceived drop in star energy in males’s school basketball this season compared with earlier seasons, there’s nonetheless a number of NBA-ready expertise to keep watch over, resembling Kentucky’s Reed Sheppard.
The sharpshooting combo guard is projected to be chosen third total – the best of any school participant – in Bleacher Report’s newest 2024 NBA mock draft, after a late-season surge in scoring seems to have turned the heads of NBA scouts. His potential to fill it up in addition to stifle opponents on the defensive finish make him one to look at within the event.
Zach Edey
One other identify to look out for is Zach Edey. The seven-foot-four, 300lb middle is the tallest participant in Massive Ten convention historical past and the reigning consensus nationwide participant of the 12 months.
Whereas his seemingly unstoppable submit presence and footwork won’t translate to the NBA, he’s a dominant school participant who’s looking for to steer Purdue, one of many event favorites, to a nationwide championship.
CNN
—
The fields are set for March Insanity and it’s time to fill out your brackets.
The boys’s subject is topped by defending champion Connecticut whereas the ladies’s total No. 1 seed is undefeated South Carolina.
The opposite prime seeds for the NCAA Division I males’s basketball event are the Purdue Boilermakers, North Carolina Tar Heels and Houston Cougars.
The ladies’s prime seeds embody the Iowa Hawkeyes, Southern California Trojans and Texas Longhorns.
The occasions start with play-in video games, the First 4, which for the lads will probably be held Tuesday and Wednesday with girls’s contests on Wednesday and Thursday.
The boys’s No. 2 seeds are Iowa State Cyclones, Marquette Golden Eagles, Tennessee Volunteers and Arizona Wildcats.
The Wildcats will face No. 15 seed Lengthy Seaside State, who regardless of firing their head coach earlier this week, gained the Massive West Convention Event to clinch this system’s first NCAA event look since 2012.
Conventional bluebloods Kentucky earned a No. 3 seed whereas Duke and Kansas are each No. 4 seeds.
Girls’s No. 1 total seed South Carolina comes off a second consecutive SEC Event title. The Gamecocks are looking for to develop into the tenth crew in girls’s Division I historical past to complete the season as undefeated champions. They may play towards the winner between First 4 members Sacred Coronary heart and Presbyterian.
Final 12 months, South Carolina went undefeated within the SEC common season and SEC event earlier than being upset by Iowa within the Last 4.
Led by the NCAA’s all-time Division I main scorer Caitlin Clark, the Hawkeyes secured a No. 1 seed for the third time in program historical past and first time since 1992. The Hawkeyes will play towards both Holy Cross or Tennessee-Martin within the first spherical.
Iowa reached the nationwide championship recreation final 12 months however finally fell to Louisiana State, which is a No. 3 seed this 12 months.
Thirty-two groups routinely certified in each the lads’s and girls’s event by advantage of profitable their respective convention tournaments.
A variety committee then decided which different groups obtain certainly one of 36 at-large bids for a complete of 68 groups. These ranked between the No. 64 and No. 68 then play within the First 4 play-in event, in a bid to be a part of the ultimate 64 groups.
Choice Sunday is the tip of weeks of hypothesis as school basketball followers have sought to foretell the exact configuration of groups that can make the ultimate bracket.
Kirk Irwin/Getty Photos
Zach Edey of the Purdue Boilermakers blocks a shot through the second half of a recreation towards Ohio State.
It implies that followers, in addition to simply informal observers, will then be capable of fill of their customary brackets predicting the outcomes of the event, in a nationwide custom that has seen everybody from US Presidents Barack Obama and George H.W. Bush to Jimmy Fallon take part in.
Now that Choice Sunday is all however over, there are solely two days for followers to fill out their brackets earlier than the lads’s event begins on March 19 and the ladies’s event begins the day after. From then on, the video games come thick and quick with the total schedule out there beneath.
Males’s event
First 4: March 19-20
First spherical: March 21-22
Second spherical: March 23-24
Candy 16: March 28-29
Elite Eight: March 30-31
Last 4: Saturday, April 6
NCAA championship recreation: Monday, April 8
Girls’s event
First 4: March 20-21
First spherical: March 22-23
Second spherical: March 24-25
Candy 16: March 29-30
Elite Eight: March 31-April 1
Last 4: Friday, April 5
NCAA championship recreation: Sunday, April 7
Males’s video games, by area
East
Connecticut vs. Stetson; Florida Atlantic vs. Northwestern; San Diego State vs. Alabama at Birmingham; Auburn vs. Yale
Brigham Younger vs. Duquesne; Illinois vs. Morehead State; Washington State vs. Drake; Iowa State vs. South Dakota State
South
Houston vs. Longwood; Nebraska vs. Texas A&M; Wisconsin vs. James Madison; Duke vs. Vermont
Texas Tech vs. NC State; Kentucky vs. Oakland; Florida vs. winner of Boise State-Colorado; Marquette vs. Western Kentucky
Midwest
Purdue vs. winner of Montana State-Grambling State; Utah State vs. Texas Christian; Gonzaga vs. McNeese; Kansas vs. Samford
South Carolina vs. Oregon; Creighton vs. Akron; Texas vs. winner of Virginia-Colorado State; Tennessee vs. Saint Peter’s
West
North Carolina vs. winner of Howard-Wagner; Mississippi State vs. Michigan State; Saint Mary’s (California) vs. Grand Canyon; Alabama vs. Charleston
Clemson vs. New Mexico; Baylor vs. Colgate; Dayton vs. Nevada; Arizona vs. Lengthy Seaside State
Area 1 Albany
South Carolina vs. the winner of Sacred Coronary heart-Presbyterian; North Carolina vs. Michigan State; Indiana vs. Fairfield; Oklahoma vs. Florida Gulf Coast.
Nebraska vs. Texas A&M; Oregon State vs. Jap Washington; Mississippi vs. Marquette; Notre Dame vs. Kent State
Area 2 Albany
Iowa vs. winner of Holy Cross-Tennessee Martin; West Virginia vs. Princeton; Colorado vs. Drake; Kansas State vs. Portland
Louisville vs. Center Tennessee State; Louisiana State vs. Rice; Creighton vs. Nevada-Las Vegas; UCLA vs. California Baptist
Area 3 Portland
Southern California vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi; Kansas vs. Michigan; Baylor vs. winner of Vanderbilt-Columbia; Virginia Tech vs. Marshall
Syracuse vs. winner of Auburn-Arizona; Connecticut vs Jackson State; Duke vs. Richmond; Ohio State vs. Maine
Area 4 Portland
Texas vs. Drexel; Alabama vs. Florida State; Utah vs. South Dakota State; Gonzaga vs. Cal Irvine
Tennessee vs. Inexperienced Bay; North Carolina State vs. Chattanooga; Iowa State vs. Maryland; Stanford vs. Norfolk State
Caitlin Clark
Caitlin Clark has transcended school basketball together with her record-breaking achievements this 12 months, changing into a star able to commanding excessive ticket costs and profitable sponsorship offers. The time period “Clark-onomics” has been coined to explain her big impression off the courtroom, such has been her ubiquity in popular culture.
The 22-year-old has develop into the NCAA Division-I main scorer throughout each males’s and girls’s school basketball this 12 months, and eclipsed NBA star Steph Curry’s report of essentially the most three-pointers hit in a single NCAA Division-1 season.
She is looking for to steer the Iowa Hawkeyes to an NCAA championship title, earlier than heading to the WNBA the place she is projected to be the No. 1 decide on this 12 months’s draft.
Angel Reese
Angel Reese is one other of the event’s greatest stars, following her essential function in propelling LSU to its first ever girls’s school basketball title final 12 months.
Matthew Holst/Getty Photos
Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes celebrates after breaking the NCAA girls’s all-time scoring report final month.
Though LSU earned a No. 3 seed on Choice Sunday after succumbing to defeat towards South Carolina within the SEC Event championship recreation, it’s nonetheless count on to be one of many prime contenders to defend its title.
Reed Sheppard
Whereas there was a perceived drop in star energy in males’s school basketball this season compared with earlier seasons, there’s nonetheless a number of NBA-ready expertise to keep watch over, resembling Kentucky’s Reed Sheppard.
The sharpshooting combo guard is projected to be chosen third total – the best of any school participant – in Bleacher Report’s newest 2024 NBA mock draft, after a late-season surge in scoring seems to have turned the heads of NBA scouts. His potential to fill it up in addition to stifle opponents on the defensive finish make him one to look at within the event.
Zach Edey
One other identify to look out for is Zach Edey. The seven-foot-four, 300lb middle is the tallest participant in Massive Ten convention historical past and the reigning consensus nationwide participant of the 12 months.
Whereas his seemingly unstoppable submit presence and footwork won’t translate to the NBA, he’s a dominant school participant who’s looking for to steer Purdue, one of many event favorites, to a nationwide championship.