NDSU vs SDSU West Region Handicapping
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.
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 Baylor Bears entered their matchup with the Nebraska Cornhuskers as one team with momentum against another. The Cornhuskers were hungry for an NCAA Tournament victory, as their last appearance was in 1998.
The No. 2 Michigan Wolverines put together a strong performance in their second-round matchup against No. 15 Wofford, winning 57-40, and their prize is a matchup with the No. 7 Texas Longhorns in Round 3.
Entering the 2014 NCAA Tournament, the fourth-seeded Louisville Cardinals were looked at as one of the most underrated teams in the field (by both fans and analysts alike).
The Huskies needed overtime to dispatch St. Joe’s out of the A10 on Thursday.
The No. 7 Oregon Ducks and No. 2 Wisconsin Badgers have survived Round 2 of the 2014 NCAA Tournament, and now they’ll face off in the third round of the West Region on Saturday, March 22. Both Oregon and Wisconsin breezed past their competition in their first matchups.
The Spartans are an early favourite to represent the East Region despite being just a #4 seed.
Dayton is 18-12 ATS with an O/U record of 16-13 and Syracuse is 15-12-2 ATS with an O/U record of 11-15-2.
Pittsburgh is 13-17-2 ATS with an O/U record of 19-21 and Florida is 16-14-1 ATS with an O/U record of 10-20-1.
The 11th-seeded Tennessee Volunteers will take on the sixth-seeded Massachusetts Minutemen at PNC Arena in Raleigh on Friday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
The 16th-seeded Cal Poly Mustangs will look to play the role of David to the No. 1-seeded Wichita State Shockers’ Goliath when the teams face off in St. Louis Missouri in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday.
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.
Stanford is 17-12-2 ATS with an O/U record of 14-16-1 and New Mexico is 17-12 ATS with an O/U record of 12-17.
Kansas is 14-12-1 ATS with an O/U record of 13-12 and Eastern Kentucky is 16-16-1 ATS with an O/U record of 19-13. In their last games Eastern Kentucky beat Belmont in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament final and Kansas was upset losing to Iowa State 94-83 in the Big 12 conference tournament.
The UCLA Bruins finished second in the Pac-12 during the regular season and first in the Pac-12 Tournament. As a result, they’ve drawn the Tulsa Golden Hurricane in the second round of the Big Dance.