What To Watch: Michigan seeks to keep Big Ten alive in NCAAs

<p>What to watch on Sunday at the NCAA tournaments in Indiana and Texas:</p>
<p>TOP GAMES</p>
<p>Men: <a href="https://apnews.com/article/scottie-barnes-florida-state-seminoles-mens-basketball-michigan-florida-franz-wagner-6bcaa30b50ea41d4bc8598da12248238">No. 4 seed Florida State (18-6) vs. No. 1 seed Michigan (22-4), </a> East Region semifinal, Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis. Tipoff: 5 p.m. Eastern on TBS. </p>
<p>Michigan has withstood an <a href="https://apnews.com/article/nba-eli-brooks-basketball-michigan-isaiah-livers-c547c92a29d89fc5cd5e64a47417e5d9">injury to second-leading scorer Isaiah Livers</a> to become the last team remaining from the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/basketball-coronavirus-pandemic-covid-19-pandemic-march-madness-mens-college-basketball-f68b5337d1c2b548f63bc8fbc4f65d55">Big Ten’s nine NCAA Tournament selections. </a> This game features two exceptional freshmen in Michigan’s Hunter Dickinson and Florida State’s Scottie Barnes. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/scottie-barnes-florida-state-seminoles-mens-basketball-north-carolina-florida-indiana-4a5754b3eceec5aac9552f05c664cc24">Florida State</a> has allowed its first two NCAA Tournament foes to shoot just 33.6% and average 53.5 points. Michigan is averaging 84 points in the NCAA Tournament.</p>
<p>Women: No. 2 seed Louisville (25-3) vs. No. 6 seed Oregon (15-8), Alamo Region semifinal, Alamodome, San Antonio. Tipoff: 7 p.m. Eastern on ESPN.</p>
<p>Oregon is seeking to reach its fourth straight regional final, while Louisville’s trying to get there for a third consecutive time. Louisville erased an 18-point deficit in its <a href="https://apnews.com/article/womens-college-basketball-march-madness-college-basketball-52cceab6da34ccf1a37d2cefa747d183">second-round victory </a> over Northwestern. Oregon had lost five of six games heading into the NCAA Tournament but has bounced back with wins over <a href="https://apnews.com/article/womens-college-basketball-south-dakota-oregon-march-madness-college-basketball-b99a35ff021f90c6b75d00e8e12c1a55"> South Dakota</a> and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/womens-college-basketball-georgia-oregon-march-madness-college-basketball-5aae098435f4cd2d3cc966287ef4e6d1">Georgia.</a> Louisville’s Dana Evans is the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/womens-college-basketball-basketball-north-carolina-wes-moore-greensboro-d60d3fbc831778431d7b1a00ff3ed1ec">Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year</a> but shot just 3 of 18 from 3-point range in the first two rounds.</p>
<p>WHAT ELSE TO WATCH FOR</p>
<p>Men: The other men’s games include <a href="https://apnews.com/article/denzel-mahoney-gonzaga-bulldogs-mens-basketball-marcus-zegarowski-corey-kispert-damien-jefferson-da9c65f1544740d1b6a0c90e920a3662">Creighton-Gonzaga</a>, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/alabama-jaden-shackelford-alabama-crimson-tide-mens-basketball-jaime-jaquez-march-madness-99319b1cc04f4466a143562276021db2">Alabama-UCLA</a> and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/southern-california-trojans-mens-basketball-chris-duarte-eric-williams-oregon-eugene-omoruyi-8fc0177de3864bf2b251b0cbc25e2ed6">Oregon-Southern California</a>. … <a href="https://apnews.com/article/damien-jefferson-marcus-zegarowski-mens-college-basketball-indiana-ohio-7feaf87912baa2c0647834f4fbec759c">Creighton is in the Sweet 16 </a> for the first time since 1974. … Gonzaga (28-0) has won by double figures in all but one of its games. … <a href="https://apnews.com/article/southern-california-trojans-mens-basketball-tahj-eaddy-eric-williams-isaiah-mobley-oregon-d48c7721099752ee0cc4e72494b7d699">USC beat Oregon 72-58 </a> in Los Angeles on Feb. 22. … Alabama leads the nation in <a href="https://www.ncaa.com/stats/basketball-men/d1/current/team/622">3-pointers made</a> (341) and <a href="https://www.ncaa.com/stats/basketball-men/d1/current/team/625">attempted </a> (961). … UCLA is trying to become the first team to go from the First Four to a regional final since VCU’s 2011 team made it all the way to the Final Four.</p>
<p>Women: The other women’s games include Georgia Tech-South Carolina, Missouri State-Stanford and Texas-Maryland. … Missouri State will try to improve its NCAA Tournament record against No. 1 seeds to 3-2. Its previous two wins against No. 1 seeds came in 1992 against Iowa and 2001 against Duke. … <a href="https://apnews.com/article/womens-college-basketball-georgia-west-virginia-march-madness-college-basketball-914e32a5fc8aafeef5da817d9e77899e">Georgia Tech is in the Sweet 16</a> for only the second time. The Yellow Jackets also made it in 2012. … Maryland leads the nation in <a href="https://www.ncaa.com/stats/basketball-women/d1/current/team/111">scoring </a> (91.8) and <a href="https://www.ncaa.com/stats/basketball-women/d1/current/team/472">assist-turnover ratio</a> (1.7). … Texas’ Charli Collier is a potential No. 1 overall WNBA draft pick.</p>
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