Familiar look: Top seeds dominate spots for NCAA Sweet 16 Globe_Sports
Kansas guard K.J. Lawson reaches in for the ball on Auburn guard Bryce Brown during the first half of a second-round game in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament on March 23, 2019, in Salt Lake City.The path to the Final Four will not be easy for Zion Williamson, Luke Maye, De’Andre Hunter and the other top-seeded stars in the NCAA Tournament.
“We had a lot of foul trouble, and we are young, and we’re not deep,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said, “but we’re good.”Duke faces No. 4 seed and fellow ACC member Virginia Tech , a rematch from one of Duke’s losses during the nearly six full games that Williamson, the star freshman, was out with a knee injury.
“I thought they were really, really underseeded,” Gonzaga coach Mark Few said, adding: “You have to beat really good teams to advance in this thing. So, we knew we were going to have to play somebody really good, and Florida State is no doubt that.” “You talk about trying to focus in and then getting down, it was real,” coach Tony Bennett said. “So I think those guys will have that as something they can always draw upon to say we faced a giant and battled through it.”
The Vols survived in overtime against Iowa after blowing a 25-point lead to return to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2014. As for the Boilermakers, Carsen Edwards had a career-best 42 points in a rout of 2018 champion Villanova.Top-seeded North Carolina leads a bracket that nearly went chalk, with No. 5 seed Auburn joining Oregon as the only surviving teams from outside the top 16 seeds.
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