Women’s Champ Week: Six biggest questions before games tip

Three days more madness has started in March.

The top -16 of Thursday depicted six teams, which lost on Sunday. Upsets pop up left and right, Tennessy beating Tenasi in Noxville with sub -500 Georgia, northern Carolina in Virginia Chapel Hill and Ole Miss on LSU in Baton Rouge. Sara Te-Bayasu’s overtime Bajer-Batter was not just a great victory shot; It kept Maryland back in the conversation to host the NCAA tournament Games and may have competed to the Ohio kingdom.

Power 4 regular-season titles were fixed over the weekend, as well as.

South Carolina and Texas shared the SEC Crown, but a coin Flip determined by the conference commissioner Greg Sanki that the game would be the number 1 overall seed in the GameCox League tournament. Neck State and Notre Dame also shared the ACC title, while TCU dropped Biler to win their first Big 12 championships.

Saturday’s action was a similar incident as the USC strengthened its position as the NCAA title contenders, which extended the regular-Sea series against the UCLA to achieve the Big Ten title.

And to think that the best of March is yet to come.

To punish the NCAA tournament dialects on Tuesday and NCAA tournament with Champion Week, we see the biggest questions that women NCAA will influence the tournament bracket.

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Marcus Freeman is in love with this olivia miles bajer-batter

Olivia Miles nets a clutch 3 for the Nonre Dame to eliminate the third quarter vs. Louisville, and Marcus Freeman shows his praise.

Which teams will secure the number 1 seeds?

Charlie Cream: Texas, USC, UCLA and South Carolina are top seeds in the updated bracketology of ESPN through Sunday’s Games. But any team has completely closed the number 1 seed, a rareness in the champion week. Texas and USC, however, look like good bets. Each of them can secure a top position by reaching its respective conference tournament tournament final, and reaching SEC semi -finals should be sufficient for Longhorn. If both of them avoid getting a big upset earlier this week, they will be 1-seed.

The UCLA should also be able to place on number 1 seed, until Bruce travels to the Big Ten title game. But if they are reduced by the finals, they will leave the top line – and if the Notre Dame ACC wins the tournament championship.

If for the title for both Fighting Irish and Uconn cruise, South Carolina may also need to win the SEC tournament to stay number 1. Gamecocks’ resume-one NCAA-Leading 13 Quadrant 1 Win-Cream No.1 Seed, but the committee told him at 2-lines in Thursday’s top-16. With low competition to promote your case, Hakis will require teams to bother to jump up to a top seed or suffer two teams.

Which teams will host the first and second rounds?

Creme: If Sunday’s results prove anything, then the situation is still developing with number 3 and number 4 seeds. Five of the eight teams on those two lines have lost the game in the last day of the regular season, and now from number 11 to total (Oklahoma) to number 20 (boiler) can be out of the top 16 or out of the total, come out on Sunday.

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Highlight: Georgia number 11 is disturbed by Tennessee and creates speed

Mia Woolfoch leads Lady Bulldog with 20 points while D’Mouuri Flornoy added 18 to Lady Vols to win 72-69.

The results of the SEC tournament will decide which teams will host NCAA tournament games. The SEC top 16 is prominent in seven teams and one eighth -eighth – Tennessee in the Champion Week – just looking out. The semi -finals of your respective tournament involves, including SEC teams involved – Oklahoma, Kentaki, Alabama, Ole Miss and Tennessi – as well as with Marine and Marine in Northern Carolina and Mary. Reach the semi -finals, they will host.

Crimson Tide will face LSU and Ole Miss will face Texas in the SEC quarter -finals. They will be games to see. The possibility of the Canasus State will require to beat West Virginia in 12 quarters to maintain its location. In the Big Ten Quarter Finals, bakeies and Terrapin have been lined up to face Michigan State and Michigan.

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TCU hangs on Buzzer to win the Big 12 title before the program

Baylor’s last-second is away from the heave mark, securing the first large regular-season title of TCU.

How will injuries affect the seeds of Champion Week and NCAA tournament?

Alexa Philipo: In this last weekend, injuries were popped up significantly, especially among the teams that faced upset. Tennessy lost the star Talsia Cooper for a clear ankle injury through the conclusion of its regular-season, while the UNC without standouts Elisa Ostby and Renia Kelly (both Tar Heels Coach Courtney Bangart said NCAA would play in the tournament).

LSU and Baylor also dropped their related competitions without the major scorer Flau’jae Johnson (Shin, SEC tournament) and Dariana Littlepage-Bugs (day-to-day, knee). And the Canasus State is still without top player Ayoka Lee, who is working with a leg injury for most of the season and intends to return to the NCAA tournament. Availability-and on-court productivity-in players will not affect how their teams have respective roofs after the Big Dance.

Creme: Johnson is the biggest name in the list, and Sunday’s outing explained how LSU is affected when it does not have the larger three of Johnson, Anees Moro and Mikayla Williams. Tigers once looked like a lock for the number 2 seed, but now it is not so. If LSU cannot find a way to win without Johnson, the number 3 seed is very much likely.

Northern Carolina is in a similar position. Tar Heels have dropped two straight games. Virginia was harmful to its opportunities to host Sunday’s loss, and they are struggling to fill the missing Eustbi and Kelly’s zero. Without them, there is a possibility of losing on a top-four seeds.

The Canasus State also seems to be running out of gas without Lee. The Audi miscreants of the Iowa State on Sunday tortured wildcats for 36 points inside on Sunday, which could eventually spend the Canasus State at a host place if Wildcats do not reverse their recent stretch of three defeats in four matches. Lee will be the best way to go back.

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Audi crooks are closed in the big victory of Iowa State

Audi crooks leave 36 points and 10 rebounds in a blowout win for Iowa State vs. Cansus State.

What’s at stake on bubbles?

Creme: The bubble has been thinner throughout the season and in some small conferences will remain like this without upset. Virginia Tech and Arizona are currently the only teams on the wrong side of the bubble, with a realistic opportunity to build a field. Their spots in the field feel more secure, with Washington and Iowa state on Sunday, with a major victory. It leaves Minnesota, Princeton, Harvard, Hoki and Wildcats as five teams for three places.

The Ivy League currently has three teams in the ground, but it is a tough hold – and two in three are guaranteed to lose another game during Ivy Madness. Print of Princeton and Harvard will match the semi -finals. Another Krimson disadvantage-way is 1-3 against tigers and Colombia in the regular season-maybe they will exclude them. If either Virginia Tech and Arizona both win a quarter -final game in their tournament, they will be in the fray – and perhaps the Ivy will also exclude the loser of the Madness title game.

Golden Gofters are wild cards. They are safely in the area for two months with a solid net rankings in the 30s. However, they have recently slipped, and Minnesota’s most recent important victory over Indiana came on 9 February. An opening-day loss for Washington in the Big Ten tournament can exclude gofters and open the door to grab a location for any other people.

The best-case scenario for Big Ten will be the victory of Minnesota in the game that ensures a record 13 teams from Big Ten in the field, the size of the new Big Ten and the lack of candidates for the NCAA tournament of the new Big Ten and other viable NCAA tournaments of the Big East and Mid-Majers.

Can conferences be bid?

Creme: The Atlantic 10 will create a Richmond from Richmond and Summit League to South Dakota State NCAA tournament, even if their conference is in the tournament. But these are the only definite bids leagues.

Other teams that dominate their conferences – UNLV (Mountain West), Farefield (MAAC) and James Madison (Sun Belt) – should lose them in a mixture of bubbles, but they do not bring strong resumes. They are a combined 2–9 in the three fourth 1 game (with JMU accounting for both win). Their position may come down how quickly or late in their conference tournament – and what is with the choice of Virginia Tech and Arizona in their league.

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Number 4 usC’s number 2 on UCLA

See the number behind the USC victory over UCLA to claim the regular-season Big Ten title.

Who will win the player of the year?

Philippou: Like the NCAA title race, the Player of the Year conversation has been very open to the season. But after this previous weekend, the USC’s Juju Watkins must have emerged as Front-Runner.

Watkins has continued as a sophomore on his superstar trajectory, possibly leading the Trojan for 1-Seed in the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive season. His efficiency has improved, and the turnover is below. His ability to read anti -rescue has increased. And with the help of added around it, she can exclude herself even more defensively. But their pair of sensational performance against the UCLA in the last few weeks-they scored 34 points on 46% shooting (50% on 3-pointers) in those games and felt its impact in every field on the floor-it is impossible to see. And he was also a force in December in the USC’s other marquee victory, Connecticut (25 points, 6 rebounds, 5 helps, 3 blocks).

Notre Dame Sophomore Hannah Hidalgo and UCLA Junior Lauren Bates Watkins have been the primary competition. But Bates concrete to Watkins and Trojans, while the Hidalgo case may have to face a regular season stretch. Entering on Sunday, the Irish guard shot 29.5% in his last five matches, and notre Dame was coming from a back-to-back losses, failing to win the ACC outright. However, voters can be shed by performance in the conference tournament, so the next week can still lose weight in this debate.