NCAA Tournament Simulation - Southwest Regional (Houston)

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This thread will have all games in the Southwest Regional.

Also this "what if sports" simulation assumes teams are at full health. So that Z guy, which is a key player for Creighton, will be playing.

This regional has 6 games on the First Thursday.

 

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#4 Butler 78, #13 North Texas 64

Butler put the hammer on this game in the first half and cruises to victory.

 

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#12 UCLA 66, #5 Iowa 56

UCLA was in control for most of this one. They were up by about 15 for most of the second half.

Luke Garza, Iowa's All-American and player of the year in some eyes, was limited to 15 points and 4 rebounds.

The embarrasing day continues for the Big Ten who are now 0-3 in the first day of the tournament, and 0-4 if you consider Indiana's play in loss.

 

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#2 FLORIDA ST 89, #15 LITTLE ROCK 82

An underwhelming performance for the #2 seed

In fact with 3:22 left in the game, Little Rock took a 4 point lead as the crowd was sensing and cheering on the massive upset. However, Florida St then responded with a 12-0 run to close out the game.

 

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#10 Purdue 69, #7 Virginia 56

Purdue builds on it Big Ten tourney championship with an impressive first round win, over what seemed to be a very tough #7 seed in Virginia.

 

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I was hoping the B1G would get embarrassed and shut out.

 

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#3 Creighton 90, #14 Bradley 76

In a battle of former MVC conference mates, Creighton cruised in the second half to win. Although they were certainly worried at half when they were down by 8 points.

A great performance by Marcus Zegarowski as he showed no ill effects from his recent knee injury which he was able to recover from fairly quickly. 29/10/6 on extremely efficient shooting.. perhaps the best performance so far in the tournament.

 

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And finally the last Thursday game.

#11 East Tennessee St 78 #6 BYU 67

Not much of an upset, these teams were fairly even. Tennessee must have the best directional schools in the recent history of the NCAA tournament (Middle and East)

 

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At the end of Thursday, this is the Southwest Regional

 

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#1 Baylor 82, #16 Boston U 68

Another scare for a #1, Boston U had the lead with 11 minutes to go, but in the end Baylor pulled away.

 

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#8 Illinois 74, #9 Florida 68

 

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After the first round.

The region is moving largely to form except for the 5,6 and 7 seeds all losing which is not all that unusual.

 

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#12 UCLA 71, #5 Butler 58

UCLA continues their really good play since the about midway through conference play. Butler is the first 1-4, not to make the Sweet 16.

 

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#2 Florida St 80 #10 Purdue 74

 

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Great game to the end the day.

#11 East Tennessee St 99, #3 Creighton 98 in Double OT

Here is how regulation end... we will have to use the imagination for something that seems almost imposssible.

And this is how the game ended.

 

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Saturday play is now concluded. The first matchup for the sweet 16 has been determined. Seven more matchups to be determined tomorrow.

 

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#1 Baylor 88, #8 Illinois 82

 

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The matchups for the sweet 16 in Houston are now set as per below.

 

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And finally the last Thursday game.

#11 East Tennessee St 78 #6 BYU 67

Not much of an upset, these teams were fairly even. Tennessee must have the best directional schools in the recent history of the NCAA tournament (Middle and East)

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And ESPN's simulation had BYU going to the Final Four... crazy!

 

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#2 Florida St wins the Regional

 

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Ham finally got it done!
Oh wait...