Alabama is the overall top seed in the NCAA Tournament after cruising through the end of a season clouded by a murder case.
frontrunners are anything but perfect, but the presence of these teams and all their questions at the top of the bracket could make for precisely what the NCAA wants its tournament to be – a perfectly unpredictable mess.Arizona State and Nevada made it off the bubble and into the 68-team field. Rutgers and Oklahoma State did not.
“It's certainly something the committee talked about during the course of the year, and certainly played a factor in seeding and selection,” Reynolds said. The tournament begins Tuesday with two First Four games. The full madness starts Thursday with the first round, with 16 games, then 16 more the next day.setting the Jayhawks at 10-1 to win the title, behind both Alabama of the South Region and the overall favorite, Houston , which would be playing the Final Four in its hometown if it wins the Midwest Region. The semifinals and finals are set for NRG Stadium on April 1 and 3.
For Alabama, the SEC tournament was a relative breeze – nobody stayed within double digits of the Tide -- unlike the past two months,about a former player, Darius Miles, who is accused of capital murder In the Jan. 15 killing of 23-year-old Jamea Harris.
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