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After which there were 12.
Now that four groups procure moved on to the Elite Eight, the different eight groups will fight for the leisure four spots on Sunday, Mar. 28.
No. 1 seed Baylor and No. 2 seed Houston procure already stamped their ticket to be one step nearer to the Last Four, now it be up to No. 1 seeds Gonzaga and Michigan to play effectively enough to pick out dancing.
The winners of Sunday’s games will come to play on Tuesday, Mar. 30.
Bracket
Candy 16 Time table
Sunday, March 28
No. 1 Gonzaga (-13) vs. No. 5 Creighton, 2: 10 p.m. ET (CBS)
No. 1 Michigan (-2.5) vs. No. 4 Florida State, 5 p.m. ET (CBS)
No. 2 Alabama (-6.5) vs. No. 11 UCLA, 7: 15 p.m. ET (TBS)
No. 6 USC (-2) vs. No. 7 Oregon, 9: 45 p.m. ET (TBS)
Elite Eight Time table
Monday, March 29
No. 2 Houston (-7.5) vs. No. 12 Oregon State, 7: 15 p.m. ET (CBS)
No. 1 Baylor (-7.5) vs. No. 3 Arkansas, 9: 57 p.m. ET (CBS)
Tuesday, March 30
Game TBD (East or Midwest Regional), 7 p.m. ET (TBS)
Game TBD (East or Midwest Regional), 9: 45 p.m. ET (TBS)
Last Four Time table
Saturday, April 3
Game TBD, 5 p.m. ET (CBS)
Game TBD, 8: 30 p.m. ET (CBS)
Nationwide Championship
Monday, April 5
Game TBD, 9 p.m. ET (CBS)
Tipoff times and TV records by job of NCAA.com.
Odds courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook.
Match Breakdown
While the 2021 males’s NCAA basketball occasion has been very chivalrous to Cinderella groups admire Loyola Chicago and Oral Roberts, the tip ranked groups are dominating.
Three of the No. 1 seeds are tranquil on the board, with one them (Baylor) already having secured a location within the Elite Eight.
Gonzaga and Michigan are on deck Sunday and there’s a terribly factual probability that every come, that implies that three of the leisure eight groups will seemingly be No. 1 seeds.
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Alabama is a No. 2 seed, but taking part in admire it deserved top billing. If John Petty Jr. and Herbert Jones play the formula they’ve played within the occasion thus a long way, they would possibly possibly possibly well possibly additionally tranquil roll over UCLA and come.
USC and Oregon procure every overachieved to rep this level and after Sunday’s matchup, most absorbing one of them will remain.
The closing time these two groups confronted off, the Geese were on the alternate pause of a blowout. Nonetheless they’ll procure a truly tricky time evening the ranking because the Trojans would possibly possibly possibly well perchance additionally tranquil get rid of this one, too.
As one of essentially the most absorbing tales left, Houston (27-3) has been taking part in impressed basketball and with their get rid of over Syracuse and it’s smothering 2-3 zone, the Cougars made the Elite Eight for the first time since 1984, when the employees dubbed “Phil Slama Jama” went on to assemble the Last Four and play within the Nationwide Championship Game.
Hakeem Olajuwon, a constitution member of that iconic squad, couldn’t be happier searching at his alma mater procure a monumental effect on March Madness.
“Noteworthy,” Olajuwon told Fox 26’s Imprint Berman. “I focal level on this twelve months it looks admire they’re centered and matured. This is in a position to possibly well possibly additionally be the twelve months.”
