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March Madness Sweet 16

Sweet 16 Report: Breaking Down The Bracket’s Best

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Selection Sunday for the NCAA Tournament is a month out, with the bracket being announced on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. Here at TheSportsNotebook we’re going to a weekly check-in on the top 16 teams, as seeded by ESPN.com bracketologist Joe Lunardi. The purpose will be to chronicle recent form, looking back on each team’s midweek game and ahead to the weekend. The Selection Committee seeds teams based on overall body of work, but we also want to know who’s really playing their best basketball as we build to March Madness. With that, here is a rundown on Lunardi’s Sweet 16…

Sweet 16 Previews: Friday Night

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Tonight’s the last night in college hoops where you have to keep the remote control at the ready, with more than one game at a time. It’s Sweet 16 action in the Midwest and South brackets, with the games in St. Louis and Atlanta. TheSportsNotebook looks at all four regional semis on Friday night…

NCAA Tournament History: The Best Of Sweet 16 Weekend

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The four days of NCAA Tournament basketball ahead don’t have the whirlwind quality that last week’s first and second-round games did. For the most part, true Cinderellas have gone by the boards—only Ohio really fits the quality this year. Otherwise, 7th-seeded Florida or 10th-seeded Xavier have to pass for America’s miracle team. And on the other extreme, this isn’t a weekend about settling a championship like we have coming up in New Orleans. But if you want a balance between a lot of basketball flying back and forth on the TV screen, along with the tension of raised stakes, then the twelve games from Thursday to Sunday are as good as it gets in sports. TheSportsNotebook is opening up the time machine, as it were, to pull out the best weekends that each regional has produced.