Wisconsin vs Arizona West Region Handicapping
The West Region’s best defensive team will take on the best offensive team in Saturday’s West regional final between top-seeded Arizona and No. 2 Wisconsin.
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The West Region’s best defensive team will take on the best offensive team in Saturday’s West regional final between top-seeded Arizona and No. 2 Wisconsin.
Memphis rolls into California on Friday, trailing host Golden State by one game in the West, and will hope that a win will provide a little separation from the eighth-place Suns, who tail the Grizzlies by just half a game for the final conference playoff spot.
With no hope of making the postseason, the Lakers will try to maintain a little pride with a win over the struggling Bucks on Thursday, when the two face off at the BMO Harris Bradley Center, in Milwaukee.
Top-seeded Arizona will face the San Diego Aztecs for the second time with a spot in the Elite Eight on the line, when the two collide at the Honda Center in Anaheim on Thursday night.
With a spot in the Elite Eight on the line, the Baylor Bears and Wisconsin Badgers will do battle at the Honda Center in Anaheim on Thursday night.
A pair of iconic teams that have struggled all season long will clash in an East Coast versus West Coast rivalry game on Tuesday, when the Lakers hosts the Knicks at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The Wildcats sure didn’t look like No. 1 seed on Friday, but will get the added benefit of playing a Gonzaga squad that also looked like it could improve, when the two tangle in San Diego in a third-round matchup in the West regional on Sunday.
Twelve seed North Dakota State advanced with a huge upset over No. 5 Oklahoma on Thursday, and will take on the San Diego State Aztecs in the third round of the NCAA tournament on Saturday.
The No. 9 Oklahoma State Cowboys will look to put a disappointing regular season behind them, but will first have to get by eighth-seeded Gonzaga on Friday in the second round of the NCAA tournament in San Diego.
The 11th seeded Nebraska Cornhuskers thought they had seen the last of the Baylor Bears after leaving the the Big 12 after the 2010-11 season, but will now face them in the second round of the NCAA tournament in the West Regional in San Antonio, Texas, on Friday.
For three consecutive seasons the Houston Astros have a set a franchise record in losses while posting the worst record in baseball, including a 51-111 finish in 2013.
A pair of teams coming of disappointing losses and getting at-large bids to this year’s NCAA tournament, will go head-to-head on Thursday, when No. 10 seed Brigham Young takes on No. 7 seed Oregon in the West Regional in Milwaukee.
Making its fifth straight appearance in the NCAA tournament, San Diego State will aim to avoid another early exit when they take on Western Athletic Conference champion New Mexico State in the second round of the West Region on Wednesday night in Spokane.
The Knicks won just two of their 13 games in February, but have turned things around in March, winning six of eight as they look for their seventh straight victory when they host the Pacers on Wednesday.
The Arizona Wildcats will not have the easiest road to the Final Four, with teams like Wisconsin, Baylor, Oklahoma State and Oregon –who upset the Wildcats at the end of the season–all ready to do battle in the West Region.
The Mariners didn’t make a lot of moves during the offseason, but what moves they did, were huge. However, it will still remain to be seen if that single daring move will equate to a better 2014 season, after finishing with a 71-91 record just one year ago.