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#1 Seeds: Villanova Virginia Purdue Oklahoma Last Four in: Alabama USC Syracuse Houston First Four out: Western Kentucky Providence Georgia Virginia Tech Next Four out: St. Bonaventure LSU San Diego St Oklahoma St Conference Breakdown: Conference Number of Teams ACC 9 SEC 8 Big 12 6 Big East 6 Big Ten 5 Pac-12 4 AAC 3 MWC 2 WCC 2
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#1 seeds: Duke Villanova Virginia Xavier Last Four in: Georgia Ohio St. Houston Boise St. First Four out: Alabama St. Bonaventure Marquette Minnesota Next Four out: Virginia Tech Providence Baylor Oklahoma St. Conference Breakdown: CONFERENCE Number of Teams ACC 9 SEC 8 Big 12 6 Big East 5 Big Ten 5 Pac-12 4 AAC 4 MWC 2 WCC 2
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With the college basketball season just under halfway through, we're ready to announce our data-backed anticipated bracket for the 2018 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. Highlights #1 seeds: Duke Villanova Xavier North Carolina Last Four in: Southern California UCLA Minnesota South Carolina First Four out: Providence Ohio St. St. John’s Utah Next Four out: Notre
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Boston College looked to follow up their massive 89-84 upset win against former #1 Duke with a similar performance against the Columbia Lions. Columbia was 1-9 heading into the matchup. BC trailed early in the game, again relying on three pointers for much of their offense. They shot 8 for
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Since 2007, Boston College has amassed a record of 50-121 in the ACC and a 141-191 record overall. They’ve only made the NCAA tournament once in the last 10 seasons, and they’ve struggled especially with conference games throughout coach Jim Christian’s four year tenure. Coming off of a week’s preparation,
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Welcome to year two of BracketBluster on firstandfan.com. For those of you new to BracketBluster, I’ll share a little of the methodology that we use. The brackets that we present here are designed purely with data from several collection sites. Each year a new formula is devised such that if
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Adam Silver has a very big problem on his hands: The NBA season is stale. In the midst of the offseason frenzy in which Chris Paul has already moved to the Rockets and Jimmy Butler to the Timberwolves, excitement among fans is high. This is continuing the buzz and interest
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35 percent of ESPN brackets had Gonzaga in their Final Four. While the Bulldogs were consistently attacked by analysts for their weak schedule and occasionally scrappy offense, they’ve held their own throughout the tournament. Mark Few was selected NCAA Coach of the Year last week, so the team is in
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Selection Sunday has arrived, as has First and Fan's final anticipated bracket. Based on the months of data collection and analysis, the bracket is as follows: East vs Midwest West vs South East Midwest West South Tune in at 5:30 EST today for the Selection Sunday presentation on CBS!
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Final Seed List (as of 4:25 pm Sunday) SCHOOL CONFERENCE RECORD Rating Villanova Big East 31-3 99.68% 1 East Gonzaga West Coast 32-1 98.29% 1 West Kentucky Southeastern 28-5 98.28% 1 South Kansas Big 12 28-4 98.09% 1 Midwest North Carolina Atlantic Coast 27-7 98.28% 2 Midwest Arizona Pac-12 30-4 97.87% 2 West Duke Atlantic Coast 27-8 96.97% 2 East Louisville Atlantic Coast 24-8 96.69% 2 South Florida Southeastern 24-8 95.04% 3 Midwest Oregon Pac-12 29-5 94.67% 3 East Baylor Big 12 25-7 93.89% 3 South Virginia Atlantic Coast 22-10 93.62% 3 West UCLA Pac-12 29-4 93.55% 4 South West Virginia Big 12 26-8 93.36% 4 West SMU AAC 29-4 92.87% 4 Midwest Cincinnati AAC 29-4 92.67% 4 East Iowa St. Big 12 23-10 92.28% 5 East St. Mary's (CA) West Coast 28-4 92.11% 5 Midwest Purdue Big Ten 25-7 91.63% 5 South Florida St. Atlantic Coast 25-8 91.03% 5 West Wichita St. Missouri Valley 30-4 90.52% 6 East Notre Dame Atlantic Coast 25-9 89.28% 6 South Butler Big East 23-8 89.03% 6 West Wisconsin Big Ten 25-8 87.83% 6 Midwest Minnesota Big Ten 24-9 86.24% 7 East Creighton Big East 25-9 86.19% 7 South Michigan Big Ten 23-11 86.17% 7 West Arkansas Southeastern 25-8 86.07% 7 Midwest VCU Atlantic 10 26-7 84.55% 8 South Oklahoma St. Big 12 20-12 83.98% 8 West Dayton Atlantic 10 24-7 82.27% 8 Midwest Miami (FL) Atlantic Coast 21-11 81.87% 8 East Xavier Big East 21-13 81.70% 9 South Wake Forest Atlantic Coast 19-13 81.67% 9 Midwest Maryland Big Ten 24-8 81.04% 9 West Vanderbilt Southeastern 19-15 81.01% 9 East Nevada Mountain West 28-6 80.89% 10 West South Carolina Southeastern 22-10 80.75% 10 South Illinois St. Missouri Valley 27-6 79.73% 10 Midwest UNCW Colonial 29-5 79.67% 10 East Middle
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