NCAA Tournament 2014: Elite 8 Starts Today
By Josh Hill
We’re just a week away from the Final Four and the National Championship, but before we can get to the Final Four, the Elite Eight will need to help us narrow the field. Basketball has already been whittled down to its eight best teams, but only four will survive a second consecutive weekend.
So far this March Madness, we’ve seen plenty of upsets with one double-digit seeded team still rolling hard and strong into the Elite Eight. The No. 11 Dayton Flyers are not to be slept on, as they’ve already busted brackets with was over the No. 6 Ohio State Buckeyes and the No. 3 Syracuse Orange, and are going for everyone’s bracket with an upset win over the No. 1 overall Florida Gators.
Over in the West, the only other No. 1 seed left standing are the Arizona Wildcats have could be one of the harder games of the weekend, going up against the hot No. 2 Wisconsin Badgers.
The East Region will No. 7 UConn take on the No. 4 Michigan State Spartans in another game that could bust brackets and the Midwest Region will feature the other Michigan team, the No. 2 Michigan Wolverines against the No. 8 Kentucky Wildcats.
March has been full of madness so far, and with the Elite Eight tipping off on Saturday, the basketball bonanza will only continue to get more intense.