Predictable. Convincingly. Depressive. Exciting. Terrying the future tournaments that will miss the magic of America. It testifies to the weekend ahead, which excites lovers of American basketballs.
Choose and acknowledge two truths. First, the man’s NCAA Final Four will contain all seeds No. 1 since 2008 – also the final of San Antonio Final Four – and the second time from the beginning of 1979. Two of these seeds no.
We are well around the phase of worrying about lost stories of losers. Check next year when trends are extended or raised. Indicate the selection commission correctly. Take the top four teams that play each other in the three biggest games of the season. Be surprised if the Duke Blue Devils are not those who will work on Monday evening in Alamodome Nets.
Seed No. 1 Florida, Midwest No. 1 Seed Houston and Seed No. 1 Seed Auburn could win it. But East Champion Duke is a clear favorite. As a result, Fantastic Frash Cooper Flagg is popular for the most important awarding of players, which undoubtedly deserves with two other winnings. Yet Blue Devils can be attributed to the Saturday’s reminder that Flagg is not standing as a driver of Duke’s success.
Flagg is NBA Next No. 1 Total selection, Dynamo Help advocate and offensive creator who sees things before they materialize at both ends of the floor. Blue Devils (35-3) may have succumbed to the 35-point hero Arizona star Caleb Love in The Sweet 16, but for coach Flagg Performance Jon Scheyer called “one of the best tournament performances like I have ever been in this event or I was part of this event in 2000, which developed in this event.
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Then Flagg had a night according to his standards-16 points, eight rebounds, shooting 6 to 16 years, four turns-but Duke broke the seed no 2 Alabama in the elite of eight, 85-65. This was the eye of the other three players, also future professionals who can dominate different ways for Duke. And drops of length and talent around them. And the Scheyer plan – the successor of Mike Krzyzewski, the unenviable job description – assembled together to suppress Mark Sears and the fastest offense in the game, while at the other end he got a clean look and back.
Therefore, Duke is a favorite who won two more games and his sixth national title, the first title outside Krzyzewski in the history of the school. This would also associate Duke with the rival North Carolina and Connecticut for the third time, for UCLA (11) and Kentucky (eight).
Freshman Center and screened first round Pick Khaman Maluach (14 points, nine rebounds, two blocks vs. Alabama) hard and soaking on all who are not perfect against ball screens and deletes everything Flagg is not in defense. Freshman Guard Kon Knueppel (21 points), a projected selection from the first round, gets a shot whenever he wants. Junior Guard Tyrese Procter (17 points) will kill you a centimeter of open space.
Of course, if there was ever a team that could take away this last inch … Houston 69-50 seed suppression No. 2 on Sunday on Sunday created the semifinals of dreams against power. Duke is the most effective offense in sport. Houston (34-4) is the most effective defense.
These efficiency assessments are the kind permission of Ken Pomeroye whose web Kenpom.com He has been doing them since the 1996-97 season. Four out of the 10 most effective teams have been four teams in this final four. In other words, it is loaded and the basketball stupid is hyperventilation. Blue Devils, who are trying to score and Cougars trying to stop them, will be the basketball nerve nirvana.
Vols managed 15 points in the first half against the Cougars, the lowest seed No. 1 or No. 2 when the first half of the game scored in this tournament. The Kelvin Sampson team did it in Indianapolis ahead of the hard pro-Tennessee and now should enjoy such an advantage of support in its home state on Saturday. The fans of the winner of the first game between Florida and Auburna will become Cougars Zealots. Flagg Matchup presents interesting questions for Sampson. But the way his team prevents collectively, and the fact that he shoots much better than some of his recent teams gives this potential to be a classic.
Houston is trying to see his first national championship in his seventh finals. Florida goes to the third National Championship, which would put it in a rare air with eight other schools with three or more. And that would be the first Non-Billy Donovan championship in the third season under Todd Goldent.
Florida (34-4) hovered in a row of the Dukes of impressive entry into the tournament, but Gators had to pull two late leaks to reach San Antonio. One came against the double defending champion and No. 8 Seed UConn in round 32. The other came on Saturday against the seed of 3 Texas Tech when the 9-point deficit with less than three minutes to the game changed to 84-79 victories. Walter Clayton Jr., the best candidate for MOP, hit 3-pointers to win him after Thomas Haughe hit 3-reporters and start a return.
This is Thomas Haugh, Pennsylvanian and football lover whose Tim Tebow Fandom as a child helped him lead to Gators. Of course there is a football angle. It’s sec.
And the football league continues to verify its regular season in this basketball tournament. Vols and Crimson Tide inherited the possibility of All-Sec Final Four (America was not ready for it), but Auburn and Florida for the second time this season guarantees the first SC performance in the Kentucky championship in 2014.
Bruce Pearl, who led Tigers to their only last finals in 2019, got a better of Tom Izzza and No. 2 Seed Michigan State in the Southern Regional Final in Atlanta, 70-64. Thus, Spartans’ hope of repetition of the history of the National Championship under Izzo 25 years after his first. This also remains the last Big Té.
Pearl did it for 25 points and 14 rebounds from John Broome, although Broome left the game in the second half with elbow injuries. He returned inside and continued to control the Spartans.
“I’m just doubting me,” Pearl said about Broome. “You still think he won’t be able to get to other equipment.”
This is the coach of the overall seed of tournament No. 1, who talks about the first team All-American and Prime MOP candidate, who has previously divided the two National Player Awards (Sporting News for Broome, Oscar Robertson Award for Basketball Basketball Writers for Flagg). This can be accepted by serious freedoms “everyone doubted us”.
But hey, when it’s all seeds No. 1, seed no 1 must be cuddly underdog.
Given that at their only meeting with regard to the victory of Florida 90-81 victories on the home floor of Tigers, given the different kind of brutal power represented in the other Four Matchup finals, Pearl looks like the Pearl is to play the card.
The Duke, who did not win it, would be the most surprising result of this last four weekend. Let’s tell the seed no. 1 surprise. Auburn wins it all? This is strong seed no 2.
(Photos Cooper Flagg: Vincent Carchietta / Imagn Images)
