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March Madness 2024: Tips to help you fill out your NCAA tournament bracket
March Madness is finally here and Mackenzie Salmon has tips to help you fill out your NCAA tournament bracket.
Men’s college basketball launches fully into March Madness 2024 as the 68-team field for the NCAA Tournament was announced on the Selection Sunday.
UConn, which won the national championship last year, will enter the tournament with an even bigger target as the No. 1 overall seed. The Huskies will play in the East Regional, and they are joined as a top seed by Houston in the South, Purdue in the Midwest and North Carolina in the West.
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Michigan State coach Tom Izzo leads the Spartans to a 25th consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament; Arizona’s Caleb Love potentially is on a collision course with his former team, North Carolina.
But the real miracle in the West Region involves Grand Canyon’s Tyon Grant-Foster, who almost two years ago collapsed at halftime of a DePaul game after suffering a cardiac arrest.
Read Josh Peter’s storylines for the West Region.
5 simple tips and predictions: 38 years of history can help you set up your NCAA tournament bracket
If the seeds were to hold form, the Midwest Region final would match Purdue, which hasn’t been to the Final Four since 1980, against Tennessee, which hasn’t been to the Final Four ever.
Now, the question is whether either of those teams will actually get to the region final.
Read Steve Berkowitz’s predictions for the Midwest Region.
UConn will try to defend its national championship coming out of the East Region, where the stiffest competition should come from No. 2 Iowa State, the Big 12 tournament champion; No. 3 Illinois, the second-place team from the Big Ten; and No. 4 Auburn, winners of the SEC tournament.
Read Paul Myerberg’s predictions for the East Region.
There’s a whole lot of history in the South Region of the NCAA men’s tournament, which features six teams with NCAA championship banners hanging in their home arenas and a couple more with recent Final Four visits.
Read Eddie Timanus’ predictions for the South Region.
There are only 68 sports for the NCAA tournament, so that means some programs will inevitably be snubbed.
For those that miss the Big Dance, there is always the National Invitation Tournament, better known as the NIT.
The tournament will begin Tuesday with the first round and conclude with the championship game on April 4.
See who made it, who declined invites and when the games will be played.
Now that the field of 68 for the NCAA Tournament has been announced, some teams on the outside looking in have already decided not to play in the NIT:
For the Connecticut Huskies, this has already been a history-making season in a number of respects. But while some history is with them, some is going against them as they embark on their bid for a rare repeat as men’s college…
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