The 5th-seeded Hurricanes will face the No. 1 Cougars in the Midwest Region semifinals Friday night from Kansas City.
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For top-seeded Houston, any hope of winning a national title may come down to Marcus Sasser’s ailing groin.Â
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FrontPageBets breaks down the following second-round matchups: No. 13 Furman vs. No. 5 San Diego State; No. 4 Tennessee vs. No. 5 Duke; No. 1 Houston vs. No. 9 Auburn.
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The Texas Longhorns have team chemistry as strong as any in this NCAA Tournament. The bonds they formed over the summer were tested when former coach Chris Beard was fired in December. Now the Longhorns have the No. 2 seed in the Midwest Region with the talent and depth to reach the Final Four for the first time since 2003. They face Colgate in the first round on Thursday. The other game in Des Moines, Iowa, is Texas A&M against Penn State. Midwest No. 1 seed Houston plays Northern Kentucky in Birmingham, Alabama. Iowa faces Auburn in the other game.
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This isn’t the type of NCAA Tournament that will give NBA fans an idea of what they can expect in the upcoming draft. The likely first two picks in the draft are Victor Wembanyama and Scoot Henderson. Neither is playing college basketball.Â
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Purdue’s Zach Edey and Indiana’s Trayce Jackson-Davis have given the Big Ten Conference a third straight year with multiple first-team Associated Press All-America picks. Kansas had a second straight first-teamer in Jalen Wilson.Â
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Alabama rolls in as the top overall seed in an NCAA Tournament that feels both familiar and foreign this season. Yes, there are plenty of heartwarming stories and unbelievable upsets to come when the action begins later this week. But this was also a season clouded with police blotters at Alabama and Texas, injuries at Houston and UCLA, some unsightly losses at Kansas and enough twists and turns at the top of the field to make this as unpredictable a bracket as ever.
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Anyone trying to fill out their NCAA Tournament brackets ought to start by figuring out which teams have the best backcourts. This has been a guard's event for years. Kansas' Ochai Agbaji last year became the eighth straight guard to get selected as the Final Four's most outstanding player. We're breaking down some of the top backcourts to watch at this year's NCAA Tournament.
Houston is the No. 1 seed in the Midwest and the Cougars are looking to make it back to their hometown for this year's Final Four.
