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In today’s post I am going to cover the sweet sixteen matchups and some things to look out for in each of the games.  Texas vs Purdue This was not a matchup many of us thought we were going to be seeing. Purdue was expected to be here and they have continued their dominant stretch from the Big Ten Tournament, taking down Queens (NC) and then beating a Miami team that didn’t want to go away. Texas, on the other hand, has had a remarkable run. They beat NC State in the first four game before taking down BYU and then Gonzaga to make it to the sweet sixteen. Every year they say to take one team from the first four to advance to the sweet sixteen, but I didn’t believe any of these teams were going to be good enough. Texas has proven me wrong and then some. They are a team I think can hang with and beat Purdue if it stays close late, but I have the Boilermakers advancing on to the elite eight.  Iowa vs Nebraska We have the battle for who has the best corn in the sweet sixteen game b...

Today’s post is one that I didn’t think I would be writing for a few weeks, recapping the Wisconsin Badgers basketball season. This was a season that had some great highs and awful lows. I will break down how the team did overall, what next season could look like, and where we go from here.  Season Lows Beginning of the season struggles: Let’s start out with some of the bad parts of the season. The Badgers started the season out well, but got derailed quickly with losses to BYU, TCU, Nebraska, and Villanova within the span of a month. BYU and Nebraska were blowouts, losing by a combined total of 58 and giving up 90+ points in each one. In both losses we shot under 38% from the field and under 25% from three. Shooting from the charity stripe wasn’t great either, but was especially awful against BYU where they shot 65.4%. The two stars, Nick Boyd and John Blackwell, also weren’t able to get going with Boyd only topping 20 points against Nebraska. The other losses provided much less t...

Welcome to March! We are finally at the NCAA Tournament and I could not be more excited for the games to start today. I am going to go over my final bracket predictions and some of the bigger games based on my picks. You can also listen to me talk about my bracket on the Primetime Sports Podcast hosted By Joey Maiullari. Joey is one of my good friends and has a great podcast where he talks about a variety of areas across the sports world with some fantastic guests. I have our episode linked below this so please check it out! Primetime Sports Podcast Spotify Primetime Sports Podcast YouTube Biggest matchups: EAST  R64 TCU vs Ohio State Virtually the same in all metrics Ohio State is playing a bit better bet TCU can knock off big teams OSU wins because of returning scoring, 58.1% from last season TCU at 26.9% Louisville vs USF Tough matchup for Louisville, not the best team USF scores, grabs boards, and turns teams over better 87.7, 42.7 (15.5, 27.2), 14.3 Louisville is the better sh...