After months of arguing, forecasting and hooping, Selection Sunday lastly showedup to offer college basketball fans the one thing they desire all year: A bracket.
So naturally it’s time for more arguments and forecasts as we waitfor the biggest competition in all of basketball. The 2024 guys’s NCAA competition will kick off on Tuesday with the First Four as 68 groups battle to reach the Final Four in Phoenix. To assistance you fill out your bracket, we’ve gone ahead and looked into the future to see which upsets are amountto locks for each area in the Round of 64.
Go ahead and make these selects with self-confidence and thank us lateron.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Tucker DeVries Time. Drake (+1.5) disturbing Washington State shouldn’t come as a shock to anybody who seen the Bulldogs this year. The junior guard – and kid of Drake head coach Darian DeVries – averages 21.8 points per videogame and has currently assisted his group take down the likes of fellow competition groups Oakland, Nevada and Grambling – not to reference 2 wins versus the egregiously snubbed Indiana State Sycamores. Watch out for the Bulldogs.
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A great and apparent KenPom upset here. Clemson ranks No. 34 in KenPom’s commemorated Adjusted Efficiency Margin while New Mexico (-1.5) is up at No.23 The Lobos are likewise ranked considerably greater in changed defense (41) and changed pace (8) than Clemson. The Tigers are predestined for an early exit.
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This is not your common Gonzaga group. In reality, the Zags barely looklike the March disruptors you’ve come to understand and love. Despite going 18-6 on the season, the Bulldogs have losses to Washington, San Diego State and Santa Clara. McNeese (+5.5), ontheotherhand, went 30-3 this year in big part thanks to guard Shahada Wells (17.8 points, 4.5 rebounds, 4.8 helps) shoots 47.5 percent from the field. But Wells isn’t