The Sweet 16 includes the Purdue Boilermakers and Illinois Fighting Illini as March Madness 2024 and the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament heads to its second weekend
Despite major upsets on opening day busting most brackets, those that remain have managed to cruise, with few surprises as higher-ranked teams continue to advance.INDIANAPOLIS — March Madness arrived with visions of chaos. Based on last year's bracket, there was little reason to doubt it.All eight top-two seeds are headed to the regional round for the fifth time. One double-digit seed will join them.
Reigning national champion UConn has looked good in its bid to repeat this year, but there wasn't a dominant team during the regular season, opening the door for what was expected to be a wild NCAA Tournament.The upsets that punctuate March have been limited and the only true buzzer-beater was a tying 3-pointer by Texas A&M's Andersson Garcia to force overtime against Houston. The average margin of victory the first two rounds was 15.8 points, second-highest since 1985.
No. 3 seeds Illinois and Creighton, along fourth-seeded Duke and Alabama also got through. The average seed for the Sweet 16 is 3.3, right behind the 3.1 in 2019 and 2009.That leaves No. 11 N.C. State, which had to win the ACC tournament just to get into the bracket, as the only double-digit seed left after San Diego State blew out No. 13 Yale in the final game of the second round.
The ACC is the sixth team to get four teams through to the Sweet 16 since the NCAA Tournament expanded in 1985. The Big East was the last to do it in 2003.Big East coaches, players and fans were frustrated with the bracket reveal when just three teams made it into the bracket.UConn is looking good in its bid to become the first repeat champion since Florida in 2006-07, winning its first two games by an average of 28 points.
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