Bob Kravitz For IU 20 is a number that matters Purdue basketball coach Matt Painter makes the right call This Northwestern team will always be remembered Valparaiso ends Butler's March reign NCAA hopes Charges starting for online Madness games Sign up now our brackets contest! Stewart Mandel Longsuffering Northwesterners anxiously wait Selection Sunday USF beats Villanova advances in Big East tourney Bulls Beat Root root … against these teams UNR eyes guaranteed bid Hard times ACC = 4 bids Wolfpack have to prove its worth Montana tops Weber State win Sky Green Bay Valpo reach Horizon semifinals Long Island keeps Robert Morris from NEC championship No. 13 Hoyas beat Pitt 6452 2nd round

Saint Mary's gets 7th seed in NCAA tournament With an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament already assured, Saint Mary's could remain relaxed even as 62 teams were called ahead of them in the 68-team field. The Gaels (27-5) were given a seventh seed in the Midwest Region and will open the tournament on Friday against Purdue (21-12) in Omaha, Neb. Drexel left out of NCAA tournament Drexel is March Mad. Winning 27 games and the Colonial Athletic Association regular-season championship was not enough to help the Drexel Dragons make the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1996. The Dragons won 19 straight games. They are a sparkling 13-0 at home. None of those numbers impressed the tournament selection committee, though. NCAA Tournament: capsules on all 68 teams A look at each of the four NCAA Tournament brackets. Teams paired by matchup:NCAA EAST BRACKET -- -- -- 1 SYRACUSE Record: 31-2, 17-1 Big East, first. Marquette, Wisconsin prepare for NCAA tournament Now that their NCAA tournament seeds are set, Marquette and Wisconsin both hope relatively early exits from their conference tournaments aren't an indication of how they'll fare the rest of this month. The Golden Eagles are a No. 3 seed in the West Region and will face the winner of the Tuesday night game between Iona and BYU. NCAA basketball tournament 2012: Virginia relieved to earn first bid since 2007 Virginia Coach Tony Bennett sat between fifth-year seniors Mike Scott and Sammy Zeglinski as the team watched the NCAA tournament selection show on Sunday evening at John Paul Jones Arena. Bennett said later he felt confident going into the viewing, but as soon as he sat down he could "feel the nervous energy kind of flowing back and forth." Read full article >> Iowa State earns 1st NCAA bid since 2005 Iowa State's first NCAA tournament game in seven years will be against the defending national champions. Should the Cyclones win, they'll probably have to face the top overall seed, Kentucky, in the Wildcats' home state. If the Cyclones can make it out of Louisville, they'll certainly have earned it. NCAA tournament 2012: Maryland women assured of high seed A year ago at this time, the Maryland women's basketball team was waiting anxiously for the NCAA tournament field to be unveiled, unsure of its seed following a loss in the ACC tournament quarterfinals. Read full article >> NCAA Tournament Seeds Set Kentucky, Syracuse and North Carolina all earned top seeding for the NCAA tournament Sunday despite surprising weekend losses that brought more intrigue to the three-week, 67-game tournament better known as March Madness. NCAA basketball tournament 2012: Georgetown to meet familiar foe in Belmont The Georgetown men's basketball team will open the NCAA tournament Friday in Columbus, Ohio, against Belmont — the same opponent it defeated in the first round en route to the 2007 Final Four. It's an interesting story line. Just don't expect Coach John Thompson III to get sentimental about it as he and his team attempt to reverse a recent trend of earning a high seed, then exiting early. Read ... Buffs face UNLV in NCAA tournament The NCAA selection show couldn't spoil Tad Boyle's party this time. A year ago, the Colorado coach hosted a gathering at his house to celebrate what he thought would be a spot in the tournament. Only, the festivities quickly turned sullen when the Buffs were snubbed by the committee and weren't awarded an at-large bid.
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