What to watch on Sunday at NCAA tournaments in Indiana and Texas:
MAIN GAMES
Men: No. 4 seed Florida State (18-6) vs. No. 1 seed Michigan (22-4), East Region semifinal, Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis. Tip: 17h in the east of TBS.
Michigan withstood an injury from second-highest scorer Isaiah Livers to become the last remaining team out of the NCAA Tournament’s nine Big Ten selections. This game features two exceptional freshmen in Hunter Dickinson of Michigan and Scottie Barnes of the State of Florida. The state of Florida allowed its first two opponents in the NCAA tournament to shoot at just 33.6% with an average of 53.5 points. Michigan averages 84 points in the NCAA Tournament.
Women: No. 2 seed Louisville (25-3) vs. No. 6 seed Oregon (15-8), Alamo Region semifinal, Alamodome, San Antonio. Tip: 7pm on ESPN east.
Oregon is trying to reach its fourth consecutive regional final, while Louisville tries to get there for the third consecutive time. Louisville erased an 18-point deficit in his second-round victory over Northwestern. Oregon lost five of its six games before the NCAA tournament, but recovered with wins over South Dakota and Georgia. Louisville’s Dana Evans is the player of the year at the Atlantic Coast Conference, but he hit just 3 out of 18 in the 3-point streak in the first two rounds.
WHAT MORE TO OBSERVE
Men: other men’s games include Creighton-Gonzaga, Alabama-UCLA and Oregon-Southern California. … Creighton is on Sweet 16 for the first time since 1974.… Gonzaga (28-0) won by double digits in all but one of his games. … USC beat Oregon 72-58 in Los Angeles on February 22. Alabama leads the nation in 3 points made (341) and tried (961). … UCLA is trying to become the first team to move from the First Four to a regional final since the 2011 VCU team made it all the way to the Final Four.
Women: Other women’s games include Georgia Tech-South Carolina, Missouri State-Stanford and Texas-Maryland. … The state of Missouri will try to improve its NCAA tournament record against No. 1 seed to 3-2. His two previous victories against the No. 1 seed were in 1992 against Iowa and 2001 against Duke. … Georgia Tech is on Sweet 16 only for the second time. The Yellow Jackets also made it in 2012.… Maryland leads the country in scoring (91.8) and assistance / turnover ratio (1.7). … Texas’ Charli Collier is a choice of the potential WNBA general draft number 1.
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