Tonight in San Antonio the double challenge between the four Serie heads n. 1 of the scoreboard. Duke favored on the hunt for the sixth triumph
Clash between Titans. The Four Four Collegiate Basketball, scheduled tonight in San Antonio, Texas, offer the double challenge between the four series heads number 1 of the scoreboard. It hasn’t happened since 2008, the only precedent. The March Madness this time betrayed in terms of surprises, but what he lost as unpredictability gave it as the quality of the teams that arrived at the penultimate songs of the great spring dance.
the stories
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There is something for all tastes, as a cover. Duke, the favorite, puts Cooper Flagg to showcase that he would like to give the sixth national title at the University of Durham, North Carolina, before going to “collect” the number 1 choice of the NBA 2025 Draft. In front of the Blue Devils will find themselves Houston, who sports a great defense and can count on the field advantage: San Antonio is about three hours of car from the city of the NASA, Cougars will be a large majority of the ARMODOME. Florida and Auburn both represent the Southeastern Conference, the best in America. The Gators showed an exciting comeback by recovering from 10 points below with 7’49 “left to play at the Elite 8 against Texas Tech. Johni Broome, the best player of the Tigers, instead surprised everyone returning to the parquet after the injury to the right elbow suffered against Michigan State in the previous round, when his season seemed already over. Dazn, with commentary in Italian.
Auburn-Florida (Sunday, 0.09)
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The great unknown are the conditions of Broome, the first quintet to America who swears and perhaps perjury of having no limitations and that after all is left -handed, injured at the “reserve” elbow, but which certainly cannot be 100%. The University of Alabama, a traditionally football school, the one that Charles Barkley had as a brightest star in its own story, on the parquet, is the absolute number one series of the tournament. In short, the first of the first. 32-5 of the seasonal record. The Florida Gators (34-4) returned as big (almost) as in the time of Al Horford, Joakim Noah and Corey Brewer, when they were able to conquer two titles one after the other, in 2006 and 2007, trained by Billy Donovan, now coach of the Chicago Bulls. They are complete, as long as rotation and for centimeters and show off an All America, the guard Walter Clayton Jr, a shooter without limitations of distance and without consciousness. Gainesville’s team starts slightly favored: more technique than the physicality of bouncers of the tigers.
Duke-Houston (Sunday, 2.49)
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The Blue Devils (35-3) are the most divisive team of America. Loved or hated, there are no middle ground. Private university, the only one of the Final Four quartet. Elite university for standards and academic fees. The student-athletes NCAA pay nothing, have a scholarship for sporting merits and in addition they collect a rain of money thanks to the image rights. But in the collective imagination the Dukies remain those with the stench under the nose, the sons of Dad Snob. Elite also on the parquet, always, the 18 Final Four speak clearly. With the right face, the predestined one, of Flagg, for many insiders the new Larry Bird, who has amazed at college, exhibiting a player of the year as a serial number for the Associated Press, from a generational phenomenon. Duke has two other draft lottery talents: the center of the South Sudan Khaman Maluach, for someone the next Bismack Biyombo, for the more optimistic the new Joel Embiid, and the guard-Ala Kon (!) Knueppel Great Realizer, super white shooter who also knows how to attack the basket, deadly with a slow trend. Duke is the best team for organic quality, but it is damn young. Will the inexperience pay? If Houston wishes him (34-4) who with the Blue Devils lost last season in the Sweet 16. This version of the Cougars certainly does not have the talent of the Jamma Jamma Jamma of Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler who conquered the Final Four in 1982, 1983 and 1984 even if he never manages to win-beaten by Michael Jordan (North Carolina). Miracles of coach Valvano (North Carolina State) and by Patrick Ewing (Georgetown) -, but he is full of veterans and defends how there was no tomorrow, otherwise. And then he plays at home, it was said.
dance queen
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San Antonio in the final week (long) will become the navel of the world of stars and stripes basketball. The great dance elects the queen who will inherit the scepter from Uconn’s huskies and that moment does not want to lose anyone. It will be special for these guys, unforgettable. By age, team spirit, for the joy that will give a campus where these games will be experienced as a question of life of death. Those communities will be beautiful for decades of these successes. And because in NBA success is a successful job, but a collegial level a dream to be lived with open eyes. San Antonio, Texas: the party is here.
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