The final weekend of hoops before the sport’s main event hits centre stage was full of surprises with unexpected titles placing teams like Oregon, North Carolina State and even Duquesne
Defending champion Connecticut, along with Houston, Purdue and North Carolina, are the top seeds in a March Madness bracket that started going haywire even before the pairings came out Sunday.
Those were hardly the only surprises over the final weekend of hoops before the sport’s main event hits centre stage. “It was one of the most difficult that I’ve been involved in,” said Charles McClelland, the chairman of the selection committee. “And I talked to some of the staff that’s been in that room for the last 20 years, and they said this is probably the most difficult selection process that they’ve been a part of.”
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