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Read moreFirst Round Game Previews: West Region
Gonzaga is once again the tournament’s top overall seed and slotted out west. Can the Bulldogs run through this region as they did in 2021? Or will Coach K’s last hurrah be the prevailing storyline?
Read moreFirst Round Game Previews: Midwest Region
Arguably the softest region, the Midwest is stacked with teams shouldering a billion question marks. Can Kansas roll through a seemingly easy draw?
Read moreFirst Round Game Previews: East Region
Baylor. Kentucky. Purdue. UCLA. There’s plenty of beasts in the East - can any giant killer derail one of these Goliaths?
Read moreFirst Round Game Previews: South Region
Gonzaga was dominant again, so a 31-3 Arizona squad got shipped to the South region. Kerr Kriisa’s ankle injury looms large, and the other high seeds here are no joke.
Read moreFirst Four Game Previews: Wednesday
Rutgers and Notre Dame, surprise inclusions? Maybe, but that doesn’t matter. They square off in Dayton on Wednesday night with a highly entertaining 16-seed undercard between Bryant and Wright State on tap, as well.
Read moreFirst Four Game Previews: Tuesday
Texas Southern and Texas A&M Corpus Christi square off for the honors to face Kansas in the Midwest Region. Indiana goes to toe-to-toe with Wyoming in a battle between the two final squads included in the NCAA Tournament.
Read moreMEAC 2021-22 Preview
The MEAC watched three teams exit this offseason, leaving a streamlined league competing for the precious NCAA Tournament bid. Powerhouses Norfolk State and North Carolina Central should be right back in the hunt, but Morgan State’s renaissance continues under Kevin Broadus…
Read moreNEC 2021-22 Preview
The turbo-charged Bryant offense took the country by storm last year, but it was Mount St. Mary’s oversized, methodical style that earned the NEC’s auto-bid. Will one of those two reign in 2021-22? Plenty of challengers lurk if not…
Read moreASUN 2021-22 Preview
The Flames keep burning at Liberty as the ASUN’s NCAA representative returns several key weapons. But OVC defectors Jacksonville St. and Eastern Kentucky will compete right away, and FGCU, Bellarmine, Stetson, and Lipscomb all have major reasons for optimism.
Read moreBig Sky 2021-22 Preview
The Big Sky is loaded at the top with several strong contenders hoping to fill the vacancy left by Eastern Washington’s exodus. Will Southern Utah’s experience prevail over Montana’s developing roster and Weber State’s array of talent? Will another emerge to defeat all three?
Read moreIvy 2021-22 Preview
After a year hiatus, the Ivy is a mystery box. Every team has two classes of players we’ve never seen before, and the ones we are familiar with haven’t hooped in 20 months. Still, the top four looks like the top four once again…
Read moreConference USA 2021-22 Preview
The Mean Green of North Texas stunned Purdue in March, and Conference USA has multiple teams with the talent to pull off a similar shocker in 2022. Two teams seem to have elevated themselves at the very top of the league, but there’s no shortage of challengers lurking behind them…
Read moreSun Belt 2021-22 Preview
The Sun Belt loaded up with transfers and “extra year” super seniors, meaning the league should see a major resurgence from a relatively down 2020-21. Will the continuity of Georgia State prevail? Or can a transfer-heavy team like Louisiana or South Alabama take the crown?
Read moreAtlantic 10 2021-22 Preview
The Bonnies have the most stability at the top, but an impressive tier of squads are intent on getting the A10 multiple NCAA Tournament bids this season. Richmond, SLU, and Dayton lurk most, but can a dark horse emerge from the talented but mysterious group below them?
Read moreAmerican 2021-22 Preview
After Wichita State’s surprising regular season title and Houston’s mega-impressive run to the Final Four, the American has to be feeling quite good about itself after 2020-21. The Cougars remain the favorite, but Penny Hardaway and Memphis are a legitimate threat, and the league continues to get deeper as a whole…
Read moreSEC 2021-22 Preview
With a major infusion of talent this offseason via both freshmen and the transfer portal, the SEC looks posed for a huge year. How good can it be? And who will win the regular season among an imposing group of contenders?
Read moreBig East 2021-22 Preview
It’s a similar story in the Big East: Villanova 1st, DePaul 11th…okay, now what? A few teams look more solid than others in that 2-10 range, but every school can talk itself into being an NCAA Tournament team if things break right. How do we see it sorting out?
Read more#3 Villanova 2021-22 Preview
With the decisions of Collin Gillespie and Jermaine Samuels to use their extra years of eligibility, Villanova once again finds itself as a national title contender. The loss of Jeremiah Robinson-Earl will hurt, particularly offensively, but Jay Wright's system and the bevy of skilled perimeter players make Nova the clear Big East favorite.
Read more#8 Alabama 2021-22 Preview
After Alabama burst onto the scene and won both the SEC regular season and tournament champioships, what will Nate Oats and the Tide do as an encore? Might we see even more success come March on the shoulders of a frighteningly dynamic perimeter group?
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