🚨 Elite Rivals Clash in Sweet Sixteen Showdown!
While teams like Miami (Ohio) and Auburn have to sweat it out until hearing their names on Sunday, Florida has a different problem after getting blown out on Saturday.
Sometime before 6 p. m. EST on Sunday evening, the NCAA men’s basketball selection committee will provide a completed bracket to CBS to unveil on the selection show.
Here’s our annual look at some of the most difficult decisions that the committee must make between now and then: 1. Who will secure the final No. 1 seed?
The big question after Florida’s SEC semifinal flop against Vanderbilt on Saturday afternoon was whether the Gators had cost themselves the final No. 1 seed. Did they open the door for UConn or Houston to leapfrog them and join Duke, Michigan and Arizona on the NCAA tournament’s top seed line?
Only a few hours later, Florida could breathe a little easier. Neither UConn nor Houston were able to seize their opportunity, St. John’s avenged a recent blowout loss to the Huskies in the Big East title game at the same time as foul-plagued Arizona outlasted the Cougars to halt their impressive Big 12 tournament run .
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