3A Washington
North Daviess 48 Gibson Southern 44
1A Loogootee
Loogootee 57 Northeast Dubois 33
1A Martinsville
Indianapolis Lutheran 43 Bloomfield 40
2A Southridge
Brownstown Central 64 Forest Park 49
Linton-Stockton 62 North Decatur 33
Semi State Matchups
1A Semi State at the Hatchet House
Game 1 10:00am Indianapolis Lutheran (17-7) vs. Loogootee (20-7)
Game 2 Noon Jac-Cen-Del (18-9) vs. Rock Creek Academy (11-14)
3A Semi State in Seymour
Game 1 10:00am Scottsburg (21-5) vs. North Daviess (24-5)
Game 2 Noon Guerin Catholic (18-8) vs. Beech Grove (17-6)
The NCAA men’s tournament bracket was revealed on Sunday with Alabama announced as the No. 1 overall seed playing out of the South region. Houston was announced as the second No. 1 seed ahead of a Kansas team that projected as a top overall seed before losing in the Big 12 tournament semifinals to Texas. The Jayhawks earned the third overall No. 1 seed, while Purdue claimed the final No. 1 seed in the East region as Big Ten champions.
The Boilermakers will play in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday against the winner of the Texas Southern-Farleigh Dickinson play-in game
The Indiana Hoosiers garnered a #4 seed in the midwest region and will face 13 seeded Kent State in Albany, New York on Friday at 9:55 pm tip and will be televised on TBS
Who was the biggest team to be left off the big dance card. Has to be North Carolina. UNC made some painful history Sunday night as the Tar Heels became the first AP preseason No. 1 team to miss the NCAA tournament since the field expanded to 64 in 1985. Despite returning four starters from last year’s national runners-up, North Carolina never came close to recapturing the form it displayed last March.
The Indiana women’s basketball team is headed to the NCAA tournament as a No. 1-seed for the first time in program history.
The Big Ten regular-season champion Hoosiers (27-3) open Saturday against the winner of 16th-seeded Tennessee Tech and Monmouth in the Greenville 2 regional. The winner will face either No. 8 Miami or No. 9 Oklahoma State in the second round.
Only other Indiana women’s programs in the tournament is
#3 seed Notre Dame
Defending champ Kansas head coach Bill Self was discharged from the hospital on Sunday after he received a heart catheterization and had two stents implemented in his heart. Self, 60, was checked into the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City on Wednesday and missed the Big 12 tournament. He said in a statement that he was set to rejoin the Jayhawks this week ahead of the men’s NCAA basketball tournament and the hospital said that he would make a full recovery.
Scottie Scheffler earned another huge victory and another massive check on Sunday at The Players Championship. Scheffler claimed his sixth career PGA Tout title, which came with a $4.5 million payday. He ran off five straight birdies in the middle of his round, built a 6-shot lead and left all the drama to everyone else on his way to a 3-under 69 to win the richest prize on the PGA Tour by 5 shots. Tyrrell Hatton closed with a back-nine 29 and finished solo second. That netted him $2,725,000.
William Byron took the lead in overtime and won Sunday’s 317-mile NASCAR Cup Series race at Phoenix Raceway. Byron led 59 of the race’s first 60 laps before falling behind Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson. Kevin Harvick took the lead in the final stage and appeared on his way to victory before late-race cautions gave Byron a chance to regain first. The win was Byron’s second straight.
