But USC’s loss to Arizona State almost damaged their own chances and helped ASU get into the 68-team field.
, a No. 2 seed playing in Sacramento, when the NCAA Tournament brackets were revealed Sunday. And it certainly seemed like the Bruins probably weren’t going to be a No. 1 seed in any event unless something dramatic happened on the eve of the pairings reveal.
“We considered about six or seven teams” as top seeds, said selection committee chairman Chris Reynolds, Bradley University’s vice president for intercollegiate athletics, in an interview with CBS. “But at the end of the day, those four teams were the teams we selected.” And consider the angst of Arizona fans, whose team got a No. 2 seed as well but was placed in the South, with a regional semifinal and final in Louisville. Arizona had 70 to 80 percent of the crowd in Saturday night’s Pac-12 championship game in ‘Vegas, but it won’t have that same wave of noise on its side should it get to the Sweet 16.
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