Auburn are the highest total seed within the males’s NCAA Event, with Duke, Houston and Florida becoming a member of the Tigers on the No 1 line within the March Insanity brackets launched on Sunday.
The NCAA choice committee favored the regular-season champs of the record-setting Southeastern Convention regardless of three losses of their final 4 video games, together with a loss to Duke again in December within the season’s lone assembly between the groups.
The Tigers (28-5) and Gators have been two of the 14 SEC groups to make the sphere, which would be the most for a convention within the historical past of the event. In one thing of a shock, each North Carolina and Texas slid in off the bubble.
The 68-team bracket begins whittling down on Tuesday with preliminary video games, and the primary draw kicks off on Thursday and Friday, with 32 video games at eight websites across the nation.
The choice present started with a heartfelt tribute to the late Greg Gumbel, the CBS stalwart who oversaw the bracket unveiling for many years.
North Carolina regarded all however out, a sufferer of a 1-12 document in opposition to so-called Quad 1 opponents and a part of a convention (ACC) teetering on the verge of a traditionally unhealthy season. However the Tar Heels made it, thanks possibly to a robust nonconference slate, whereas Texas have been additionally in – their seven wins in opposition to Quad 1 groups outweighing their total 15 losses.
The SEC’s 14 groups have been adopted by the Large Ten with eight and Large 12 with seven. The ACC, in the meantime, ended up with 4 groups, barely avoiding its worst displaying since 2000, again when the convention was half the scale it’s now.
Even in a down cycle, the ACC has Duke, and Duke have arguably the most effective participant within the nation in freshman Cooper Flagg, a 19-point, 7.5-rebound-a-game freshman whose ankle harm, the college says, won’t hold him out of March Insanity.
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