Nicole Auerbach Takes Down Pro Basketball with Phenomenal Showmanship!
Nicole Auerbach sees one conference dominating March Madness on the men's side.
Call me a Big 12 homer, but I totally buy into that league as the best in the country this season. And that leads me to pick an all-Big 12 national championship game. This is not a matchup I would have picked two weeks ago before injuries hit both Duke ( Caleb Foster on top of Patrick Ngongba ) and Michigan (reserve guard L.
J. Cason ). Though I still picked both of those teams to make it to Indianapolis, I'm not 100 percent sold about them reaching the title game — or cutting down the nets.
Instead, I'm putting my faith in Tommy Lloyd and a Wildcat program that hasn't reached the Final Four since 2001. Arizona has the talent to win it all as well as the toughness it requires after surviving the Big 12 season. Jaden Bradley is the kind of guard that can put a title contender on his back and hit big shot after big shot when his team needs it.
It's hard not to love (and trust) him. I picked a couple of upsets in the first round, mostly due to the volatility of the higher-seeded team. I picked Santa Clara to upset Kentucky (a very Jekyll-and-Hyde team), VCU to upset UNC (largely due to Caleb Wilson's injury) and Penn to upset Illinois (which has lost three of five coming into the NCAA Tournament).