Elite Eight Men's Report 2023 - No # One Seeds Left

    So, last night the last two number one seeds in the NCAA Men's tournament were eliminated. San Diego State, the first Mountain West team to make it this far ever, took out Alabama, and Miami, whom I have written about before due to them blasting my Indiana Hoosiers by the end of the last game in the round of 32.

    Tonight is upstart but quite talented Florida Atlantic against UConn. Some people are high on the Huskies. I do not want UConn because I want them to not tie Indiana for all time championships at five. The other all-time champs are already gone: Duke at 5, UNC at 6, Kentucky at 8 and UCLA at 11.

    Indiana has been falling behind. Enough about them...

    This is about the 8 remaining teams. 

    I think Gonzaga or San Diego State would good be good for me. At least a new one, that has never done it before. And someone out of the West would be refreshing. Miami? Creighton, Tennessee, Kansas State, or FAU. The Owls are an amazing story. A former Knight coach down there.

    Oh, yeah. Texas. Before they leave the Big 12 for the bigger, badder, more football-driven Southeastern Conference. 

    Who is left conference-wise? Two Big 12 schools, which conference has been considered the best the last few years. Two Big East programs, after the Catholic-dominated league scooped up the Connecticut Huskies. The Mountain West has one pioneer, in the Aztecs, and the Gonzaga Bulldogs are there again, for the Western Coast Conference. Miami is the best in the ACC, and they are impressive. Tennessee is there for the SEC, despite losing a really good point guard.  FAU is there for Conference USA.

    5 seed SDSU versus 6 seed Creighton. Will play the winner of...

    4 seed Tennessee  9 Seed Florida Atlantic versus 3 seed Kansas State (my younger boy picked KSU to in the final to lose to UCLA).

    On the other side, we have:

    5 seed Miami versus 2 seed Texas. The winner of that match will face...

    4 seed Connecticut versus 3 seed Gonzaga.

    Oh, Florida Atlantic lost... Right? They did have a great run, though. The Vols were better. They are more impressive than I had thought during they season. They can score.

I was mistaken. Florida Atlantic beat the Vols 62-55! 

    My best final would be the Aztecs versus the Bulldogs of Spokane. SDSU would be quite a story, Bradley of San Bernardino might be related to a former student of mine. That would be nice. He used some choice words against me in the class room... Had me thinking. But he was a kid.

    Go Tecs!