Bama, Houston, KU, Purdue NCAA men’s 1-seeds
INDIANAPOLIS– Alabama is the general front runner in the NCAA tournament after travelling through the end of a season clouded by a murder case over the previous two months.The Crimson
Tide were awarded the leading area Sunday over Kansas and Houston, each of whom exited their conference competition without the title and missing out on essential cogs. Purdue protected the final No. 1 seed.
“It was a fascinating procedure, and it took a bit,” Chris Reynolds, the competition committee chair, stated on CBS after the bracket expose was concluded. “Nevertheless, what I will say is this: Those teams at the top, they performed regularly throughout the year. Therefore we considered about 6 or seven teams at the top. However at the end of the day, those four teams are the teams we chose.”
It was a day full of great news for Alabama, which beat Texas A&M to win the SEC tournament before gathering to see the selection show.NO.
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@AlabamaMBB #SECMBB x @MarchMadnessMBB pic.twitter.com/8gRpxIcSYT!.?.!— Southeastern Conference(@SEC)March 12, 2023″Happy for our people, “Alabama coach Nate
Oats stated after the win over the Aggies.”They’re an excellent group of kids that bonded, played together. We had some goals at the start of the year, regular-season champion was one of them. We got that. Competition champion was one. They came out prepared to play today. Could not be better for them.” The protecting national champ Jayhawks lost by 20 to Texas on Saturday in the Huge 12 competition. They played without their coach, Costs Self, who suffered a concealed medical issue however was released from the health center and is expected back this week. Houston was without leading scorer Marcus Sasser, who went down with a groin injury Saturday.Kansas is trying to end up being the very first back-to-back NCAA champ since Florida in 2007, and a minimum of for now, the Jayhawks aren’t thrilled to have actually lost out on the front runner.” They mark it how they feel, “Kansas forward KJ Adams said,”and we’re just going to do what we need to do to get
where we require to be.” Action in the 68-team competition starts Tuesday with 2 games in the First Four. March Madness gets into full swing Thursday and Friday with 32 games spread over 8 cities. The Final Four is set for April 1 and 3 at NRG Stadium in Houston.Editor’s Picks 2 Related Although not the total No. 1 seed, Houston, which could be playing what totals up to two house games at the Last 4, was available in as the preferred per FanDuel Sportsbook at
11-2. Next was Alabama
at 15-2, followed by Kansas, which is attempting to become the first string to win back-to-back titles since Florida in 2007 and is noted at 9-1. The Tide will play in the South Area and will open Thursday in Birmingham, Alabama, versus the winner of a First 4 game between Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Southeast Missouri State.Teams making it off the bubble consisted of
Mississippi State and Pitt, who will square off Wednesday in a First 4 game. Houston will open versus Northern Kentucky on Thursday.Oklahoma State was among noteworthy bubble teams to not make the competition, although
the Big 12 program gotten heavy consideration from the committee.”When you look at the résumé, they had 18 chances in the Quad 1, and they won only 6 games,” Reynolds said of the Cowboys.
“And they had opportunities in the nonconference schedule to win some games to improve their résumé, and they fell a little short.”The Associated Press contributed to this report.