You have a real feeling for the strengths and weaknesses of the different teams throughout the long exhausting regular season, but the draw is all once Mars madness arrived.
Let’s dive into the 10-week edition of this week and some Make-Or-Brise factors for tournament teams. Here are the teams you do (or not) want to see.
1. In a worrying trend for Alabama
Alabama wants to take 3s and limit the 3S. This checks mathematics from the point of view. But the interior defense was not a real force for the tide. Many great men in the dry had a day on the ground against their front line.
- Johni Broome of Auburn: 34 points, eight rebounds
- Alex Condon of Florida: 27 points, 10 rebounds
- Keshawn Murphy of the state of the Mississippi: 18 points, 11 rebounds
- Amari Williams of Kentucky: 17 points, 11 rebounds, six assists
- Zvonimir Ivisic de l’Arkansas: 27 points, seven rebounds
- Mark Missouri Mark Mitchell: 31 points, three rebounds, three assists
- TREY KAUFMAN-RENN DE PURDUE: 26 points, eight rebounds
- Oregon Bittle Nate: 19 points, nine rebounds
- Ole Miss’ Malik him: 23 points, 19 rebounds
Sunday Lookahead selection: Pay attention to what you want, but it is not unrealistic for Alabama to potentially see a seeded brand n ° 7 in the second round. It would be very good for the crimson tide. Marquette has very little beef inside. Conversely, a team like Memphis – which increased the low -cost keys for Dain Dainja – could be a chore.
2. Arkansas extinguishing the water from the lead guards
The end of the end of the Boogie Flande season radically changed the rotation of John Calipari. Razorbacks are now playing only seven guys. All have 6 feet 4 inches or more.
During the last month about the last month, Arkansas overturned its season with a defense of the improved perimeter. There are small lead guards strewn throughout the dry. Very few are very successful against this Arkansas team which is important to the point of attack with DJ Wagner and Johnell Davis, physics on the wing with Billy Richmond and Adou Thieo potentially imminent and has several shooters of shooting on the back, namely Trevon Brazile, Jonas Aidoo and Zvonimir Ivisic. These Hawgs are a difficult match for the little guards and there is proof in the pudding.
If the Arkansas makes the NCAA tournament, its defense on the main guards will be a great reason.
Sunday Lookahead selection: Hypothetically, if an arkansas with 10 seeded has been twinned with a state of Michigan with 2 seeds which is strongly based on smaller guards like Tre Holloman, Jeremy Fears Jr., Jaden Akins and Jase Richardson, Arkansas has the staff – and a concept test – to match enough.
3. Purdue struggles against large wings continue
Purdue could be really happy if his initial selection lot draw does not present a match against a big wing. This archetype has given boilermakers who adapt several times throughout the conference game because Purdue does not have the perfect answer. The programming of boilermakers is mainly three small guards next to Trey Kaufman-Renn and Caleb Furst. This forces annoying discrepancies with a 6 -foot wing 6 inches.
Purdue has the flexibility to pivot for Cam Heide or Myles Colvin, which are more than defensively (Colvin, in particular, has shown great moments of defense). However, the two guys do not make 3 to a high clip, so the hands of Matt Painter are a bit linked.
Sunday Lookahead selection: Purdue is on this line n ° 4. The association in the same quadrant with a team like Arizona – which has talented physical wings like KJ Lewis or Carter Bryant – would not be ideal.
4. Texas A&M losing the battle against dynamic shooters
The Aggies have built a defense among the first 10, but the shooters have soared the nets against them lately. The Buzz Williams club can overwhelm opponents with its physics and size. Marking at the rim against the Aggies is a chore, and they swarmed in the ball and force the reversals to a clip of 20%. It ranks right outside the top 40 at the national level.
But Texas A&M gives up a lot of captures 3. Only two highly high defenses allow 3 more kept rope, which is the 3 highest value-value point. If you can go out, run and move the ball with a goal against the teeming defense, there are 3 open points to find. Recently, Texas A&M had major problems containing the best shooter in the screening report.
Sunday Lookahead selection: Texas A&M is in an embarrassing place. It could easily be in this beach of 2 to 4 seeds. Anyway, all quadrant with Louisville would be a problem. Reyne Smith is one of the best shooters in America. He could have a day in the field if the Aggles were not careful.
5. Even ole, even ole with Baylor
We talked about it all year round, but the elite shooters become too comfortable against this Baylor’s defense. Scott Drew and his staff know it’s a problem, but he continues to play a game after the match.
It’s the same story, a different day.
Sunday Lookahead selection: Baylor is on thin ice for an offer in the big one, but still has the hope of progressing thanks to its high -end talent. Avoid an appointment with a seeded like the Missouri would be ideal. Caleb Grill is the chief of the snake, but Mizzou can heat him from the city center to be hastily against a disconnected defense.
Virginia-Western is one of the best defenses in the country to limit 3S spots. Sencire Harris is a great defender on the ball, and the Darian Devries game plan to play two out of two and stay at home in shooters teams to beat Virginia-Western in the post or with disputed and disputed riders.
There is a real sample of Virginia-Western simply sufficiently suffocating the higher elite shooter of the screening report and limiting their attempts.
Sunday Lookahead selection: Virginie-Western could very well see Creighton in the first round. I don’t like this match for mountaineers. Ryan Kalkbrenner could give the sub-dimensional front area of Virginia-Western some serious problems, and Steven Ashworth is one of the snipers to take away in the country. He strikes the shots that Virginie-Western is trying to cajole.
7. Top Guy on the screening report against Maryland
I am not quite sure I know what to do with it because the defense of Maryland has a real bite, but the guy n ° 1 on the screening report continues to obtain their figures against the terps in the last month.
Sunday Lookahead selection: If this trend continues in March, it can be a little frightening if this alpha feels good about himself in a game of pinching and suddenly. For example, Marquette is a completely different team when Kam Jones is underway. Maryland knows it too well of the inclination of non-conference when Jones broke out for 28 points. A heliocentric team would be the one I would like to avoid if I was Maryland. Ole Miss or Byu would not be easy games, but they are more a “everyone eats” team.
8. Marquette on the boards
The interior defense and the rebound were a major concern of the pre-season, and it materialized with Marquette. Elite offensive rebounds were a problem for the Shaka Smart club.
Selection Sunday lookahead: Georgia would be a seeded to 10 seeds that I would not want to draw if I was marquette. The DAWGS have a great size in the five positions and they are incredibly deep. They hit the glass with an reckless abandonment over and over again. A team like Utah State or perhaps even Virginia-Western could be a more manageable touch.
9. Clemson eliminating 3s of the spot-ups
Clemson, like Virginia-Western, is one of the best teams to remove these 3 cotton and ultra-vaillé cups. Particularly open. The tigers have not authorized two figures and not kept 3 without caretaker in a single match since December 7 against Kentucky.
- Miami: two catches 3 without guard
- North Carolina State: Zero satch-and-unit not kept 3S
- Florida State: Three unattended catches and shot
- Virginia: Three unattended catches and shot
- Boston College: Five captures and shots without guard
- Virginia Tech: Five captures and shots without guard
Selection Sunday lookahead: When it does not make the limits of the limits, the Michigan Double-Big range creates a lot of captures 3 without surveillance. Clemson and Michigan could easily be the heads of standard No. 4 and n ° 5 in a region, respectively. If it’s the turn of 32 games, the tigers correspond extremely well. They have the big ones to fight Danny Wolf and Vlad Goldin. He has the defensive plan to remove these 3. Tigers would make life difficult for a team from Michigan who is already wading in the section.
10. Zags make life difficult in Tour II
Mark, some reorganized the rotation at the end of January to obtain Emmanuel Innocenti – the best defender of the zags perimeter – on the ground. But Nolan Hickman also increased it to this end. The defense of Gonzaga is to the n ° 35 on a national scale, which is the district in which it must be.
If Gonzaga’s defense gets a second glance, it rarely goes well for you.
Sunday Lookahead selection: The Gonzaga non-conference calendar was filled with potential tournament teams like Baylor, San Diego State, Uconn, Kentucky, Ucla, Indiana and Virginia-Western. Gonzaga would probably enjoy a revenge match for everyone.
