The SEC won the day with a record of 14 of the 16 teams making the NCAA tournament. The Big Ten was as follows with eight teams, followed by Big 12 with seven.
“It was clear by Sunday morning that Aburn, Duke, Houston and Florida each had separated in the race at the heads of standard n ° 1. attribute the committee not to have spoiled this – and to have obtained this in the right order.
“The same goes for the dry to get 14 offers. You will probably hear complaints on this subject, but the truth is that the dry has won this respect.
“Where the selection committee has tripped a little: select the North Carolina on more deserving teams such as Virginia-Western. The Tar Heels have toasted the final place in the field despite the fact of 1-12 in the matches of Quadrant 1 and were beating only one team of NCAA caliber tournament.
“Also: the Committee says that the matches of the title of the conference tournament count – even Sunday which comes up against the selection program. It is undoubtedly true when there is a thief of tenders involved. It is a little more difficult to believe, however, when there is just a bran of potential seed or two issues. The claim seems doubtful.”
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This sequence of 36 seasons was the second longest in female university basketball. Only Tennessee was better with 42 consecutive appearances in tournament. Uconn has now been 36 times to match Stanford. Baylor is the nearest team with 21 consecutive appearances.
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The Gators have won 12 of their last 13 games and enter the tournament with a 30-4 file. These four defeats relate to teams that have made the NCAA tournament: Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Missouri.
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Many amateur crochetologists have projected that the Tar Heels have just lacked the field of 68 since they spent 1-12 by quadrant 1 games and only beat one team of NCAA tournament projected all year round. The Committee apparently felt the opposite, granting one of the last At-Large offers to Tar Heels (22-13) because of their best 40 measurements and their strong calendar force.
There is also a lot of quality in the quantity. Auburn and Florida won n ° 1 seeds, while Tennessee and Alabama were seeds No. 2. Overall, six of the 14 teams obtained the first four seeds.
The SEC has established itself as the best conference in university basketball this season since the jump. The conference teams were 59-19 years old against other power conferences before the conference game start. Overall, the SEC teams won 89% of their matches without a conference and 14 teams were classified in the top 25 of the AP at a given time this season.
