5/17/2023 0 Comments Big 12 conference newsBut what’s the case for having five other teams ahead of Duke?ħ. I would have guessed Villanova would have ranked third or fourth on this list.ħ. Villanova 11/1: I’m surprised ‘Nova is this low. A team that’s very difficult to take out.Ħ. Texas Tech 10/1: Maybe the American sports fan sees what I see. But Sampson’s team is among the top four favorites.ĥ. The Cougars are a 5-seed, which makes them the 11th-highest seed remaining. The Jayhawks don’t seem to have quite the power of past great KU teams.Ĥ. ‘Zona withstood a major scare against Texas Christian, but sometimes that’s a sign of future success.Ģ. Here are the Las Vegas odds for each of those 16 teams to win the title:ġ. I still would sacrifice the latter for the former.Ĭarlson: OU overcame lack of height all season, but against Notre Dame, it was too big a deficit So it’s a series of small steps for the women in both parity and attendance. On the men’s side during that span, 28 teams seeded 11th or lower have reached the Sweet 16. Peter’s following Oral Roberts’ lead from 2021.Īnd since 2007, nine women’s teams seeded 11th or lower have reached the Sweet 16. In 2021, the number was nine.Īnd for the second straight year, the men’s tournament had a 15-seed break through to the Sweet 16, with St. The men’s tournament this year has six teams still alive seeded below fourth. The increased parity was encouraging, but still, the women fare poorly when comparing parity with the men, who play strictly on neutral courts. One game is way too late, the other way too early.īut that’s the price of doing business with ESPN and running the tournament opposite the men’s March Madness. Saturday, then played Notre Dame at 5 p.m. OU played Indiana-Purdue-Indianapolis (IUPUI) at 9 p.m. OU hosted two sessions, Saturday and Monday, and had less than a week to rally the troops.Īnd the tipoff times were abysmal. The 2004 record was set when sites were predetermined, which allowed ticket-sellers to get a big jump on marketing. There’s also not great evidence that the men’s tournament is growing. That’s a long-standing record and does not fully support the idea that interest is growing. “And we've lost four starters every year for so long, it just seems natural that we have a brand-new team this year. “Our kids, they really believe in the culture we have created here over the years,” Sampson said. And yet the Cougars are back in the Sweet 16. Leading scorer Marcus Sasser (17.7 points per game) and key reserve Tramon Mark (10.1 ppg) have been lost for the season due to injury. Quannas White and Hollis Price, the backcourt of those grand 20 teams, are on the staff. Son Kellen is Sampson’s chief lieutenant. That’s how Sampson talked as a Sooner, and that’s how the Sooners won.Īnd when you look down the Houston bench, you see all kinds of familiar faces. You have to have a contingency plan for winning. “The way our kids play, some of you probably haven't seen us play this year, but that's the way these kids practice … our offensive rebounding always gives us a chance to play when we don't make shots.
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