championship week

Championship Week Quarterfinals: Top Seeds Survive by a Combined Two Points

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Championship week quarterfinal results showing two ACC games ending 80-79 (Duke-FSU and Clemson-UNC), 11-seed Georgetown beating 3-seed Villanova 78-64, and 15-seed Ole Miss beating 7-seed Georgia 76-72 for their second straight SEC upset.

Two 80-79 Finals, a 15-Seed on the March, and a Sub-.500 Team in the Semis Thursday’s conference tournament quarterfinals delivered a message the public keeps ignoring: lower seeds belong in March. Across every major conference tournament, higher-seeded teams either lost outright or survived by the slimmest margins imaginable. Two ACC quarterfinals ended 80-79. A 15-seed … Read more

Championship Week Day One: Bubble Teams Buckle as Lower Seeds Dominate Power Conference Openers

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Championship week day one results showing Stanford eliminated by 15-seed Pitt 64-63 as 5-point favorite in ACC Tournament. BYU's AJ Dybantsa scored 40 points breaking Kevin Durant's freshman Big 12 Tournament record. Lower seeds dominated across ACC, Big 12, and Big Ten openers.

Bubble Teams Buckle While Underdogs Play Free Championship week opened Tuesday with a wave of championship week upsets across all three power conference tournaments. The pattern was unmistakable: the teams everyone expected to win played tight, and the teams with nothing to lose played loose. The ACC, Big 12, and Big Ten all tipped off … Read more