The Surprise Of The Final Four

AVONDALE, La. (AP) – PGA Tour star Jason Day says he expects to travel to Augusta, Georgia on Friday to start practicing for the Masters, but could pull still out of the season’s first major, depending on his mother’s prognosis following surgery for lung cancer last week. Nobody rigged this one.

NORTH CAROLINA 75, KENTUCKY 73: The North Carolina Tar Heels now are a win away from getting back to a national championship game they narrowly lost a year ago.

SC guard Tyasha Harris, right, tries to steal the ball from Florida State Seminoles Chatrice White during the first half of a regional final game of the women’s NCAA college basketball tournament, Monday, March.

Best Moment So Far Outscoring the Florida Gators by 14 in the second half to win 77-70 and book the first Final Four trip in school history. That might not be an issue for OR, however, considering how much they were able to slow down Kansas in the Elite Eight.

Wilson was on the team last season while it’s the first appearance for the other four. It had been rechristened the Tall Firs by Oregonian sports editor L.H. Gregory. “But I know that when Frank Martin stepped foot on campus, you just got this vibe that the ball was rolling”.

We’re one step closer to seeing who will take home the National Championship on April 3.

“I’ve been there 28 years”.

According to Bovada, odds of a national championship for Gonzaga are 9/5, and OR 11/2. It’s really been a great tournament to watch! The Gamecocks beat FSU 80-74 in the 2015 Elite Eight, on the way to their first final four in program history. This could be the best Gamecocks team ever, and the folks in SC will probably be talking about this team for a while.

It was the first game between the teams since the Raptors traded Terrence Ross to the Magic for Serge Ibaka in February.

Even now, ticket finally punched, the Zags will arrive in Phoenix with a question mark affixed. Villanova’s Kris Jenkins hit a shot at the buzzer in the title game, only seconds after Tar Heels guard Marcus Paige made a double-clutch 3 to tie it. The answer to all of the above is yes. I would love to see SC win, but Gonzaga beats North Carolina for the title.

After Wright’s jumper at the 4:23 mark made it 30-27, SC closed the half with a 10-2 spurt. Whoops! Vandy was winning, and the foul allowed Northwestern to take the lead in a game the Commodores would eventually go on to lose.

After three straight free throws from SC made it 70-65, a conventional three-point play by Allen cut the lead to 70-68 with 53 seconds left, but that would be the closest Florida would get as the Gamecocks scored the final three points of the game on free throw from Thornwell and dunk by Duane Notice.

See how the teams matchup in the charts below. The defense held the Jayhawks to 1-for-15 on 3-pointers in the second half. It destroyed Baylor in the Sweet 16.

Why They Can’t Win The Ducks bench isn’t almost as strong as their starting lineup.

In some ways this is a traditional Final Four-two favorites, a sleeper and a mild Cinderella-and in other ways it is highly unusual.

Gonzaga opened as a 6 1/2-point favorite against SC in the opening game next Saturday night at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. She has been the Gamecocks’ top scorer a team-high 20 times and leading rebounder in 12 games this season. The win over Kentucky showcased the kind of team built for this occasion.