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Winning the NCAA men's college basketball tournament is all about peaking at the right time. Virtually every national champion goes through a brief cold spell in January or February but hits its stride just in time for March Madness. On a related note, the Auburn Tigers are hotter than the bleeping sun, and they have been for about a month. They waxed the floor with Kansas in Salt Lake City on Saturday night 89-75—a margin that doesn't do justice to the beating we witnessed. The Tigers extended their winning streak to 10 games, and they did it by canning the deep ball early and often and taking the turnover battle. Led by Bryce Brown and Chuma Okeke, Auburn made 13 triples and had nine steals. For most teams, that's a once-in-a-season type of combination of offense and defense. It was just another day at the office for the Tigers. In the first nine games of this run, Auburn averaged 12.1 threes and 10.4 steals, which is ridiculous. According to  KenPom.com , the Tiger

#NCAA #Auburn  #Jayhawks #KU #Kansas #Tournament By BRANDON MARCELLO March 22,2019 SALT LAKE CITY — Auburn and Kansas will tip off in primetime in the NCAA Tournament. Auburn and Kansas will begin Saturday at approximately 8:40 p.m. CT on TBS, it was announced Thursday night. The second-round game is set to be the final one of Saturday in the NCAA Tournament, providing Auburn coach Bruce Pearl his wish from earlier in the day when he hoped for more hours to rest after playing five games in the last eight days. "I’m hoping we can somehow get back on Saturday, maybe get a later start time and get some recovery because our team is tired right now," he said. Auburn survived a furious comeback attempt by No. 12 seed New Mexico State to win 78-77 Thursday. It was the Tigers' fifth game in eight days. Kansas advanced with a 87-53 demolition of No. 13 seed Northeastern on Tuesday afternoon. “It is one game, and certainly, you know, sets up a game in which we ha

#Tournamentbracket #Duke #EastRegion  #NCAA At the moment,  Duke  is an overwhelming public favorite to not only reach the Final Four but win the national championship. More than 40 percent of the early entires in  <strong>CBS Bracket Games</strong>   have the Blue Devils winning it all, so it might be time to pump the brakes, or at least offer up some contrarian suggestions to this majority opinion.  First, it's a single-elimination basketball tournament. We love the  NCAA Tournament and March Madness because the single-elimination format does not set up for the better team to win like a best-of-seven series is formatted. Duke is the No. 1 overall seed because, when full strength, it is the best team in the college basketball. But even at full strength, this team can be defeated. The Blue Devils lost to  Gonzaga  in the Maui Invitational, and then while not at full strength, Zion Williamson and R.J. Barrett were in the lineup and healthy for a home loss to  Syr

Blue-chip basketball recruit #BryceThompson, a 6-foot-4, the 180-pound junior combo guard from Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Okla., has embraced a new NCAA rule that allows juniors to take official campus visits. Thompson, the No. 65-rated player in the recruiting Class of 2020 by Rivals.com, whose dad, Rod, played for Kansas coach Bill Self at Tulsa, has completed official visits to Colorado, Arkansas, and Texas A&M. He’s made unofficial visits to Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State and also has Tulsa, TCU, and others on his list of schools. “It’s always good up there. You know Coach Self. What he does speaks for itself. I got to see Late Night in the Phog and all of the crazy fans, so it was good,” Bryce Thompson said in commenting to Rivals.com on his late September visit to KU. Thompson — he’s not yet set a date to visit KU officially — has been called “one of the most dangerous jump shooters in the Class of 2020,” by Eric Bossi of Rivals.com. He