Just two more days remain in the college basketball regular season, as every conference tournament remaining is playing semifinal or championship games today.
With only the best teams remaining in several conferences nationwide, we are treated to five ranked vs. ranked matchups. However, none of those are in the Big Ten tournament, as two double-digit seeds (No. 10 Penn State and No. 13 Ohio State) crashed the party in the semifinal round. Elsewhere, it is chalk at the Big East tournament, and Matt Norlander gave a historical perspective on Twitter on how rarely the top two seeds have met in the conference championship game.
Saturday will be the 10th all-time 1-vs.-2 matchup in a BET final in this, the 41st year at MSG, per Big East legend/media director John Paquette. A wow: the last time it happened was way back in 2004: UConn (2) beat Pitt (1). That UConn team went on to win the national title.
— Matt Norlander (@MattNorlander) March 11, 2023