2024 NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen Betting
The 2024 NCAA Sweet Sixteen will be about power, as for only the fifth time since the NCAA Tournament began seeding, all eight top seeds have advanced to the Sweet Sixteen. The Connecticut Huskies are the top overall seed and they are the favorite in March Madness odds to win the title. The Huskies will play No. 5 San Diego State in a rematch of last year’s title game in this year’s Sweet Sixteen. The Houston Cougars are the second choice in March Madness betting odds and they will face No. 4 seeded Duke in the Sweet Sixteen. The other two top seeds are the Purdue Boilermakers and North Carolina Tar Heels. The Boilermakers will face No. 5 seed Gonzaga in the Sweet Sixteen, while the Tar Heels will face No. 4 seed Alabama.
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2024 NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen
This will be the first trip to the Sweet Sixteen for Illinois since they made a run to the title game in 2005. It will be the first trip for Marquette to the Sweet Sixteen since 2005. The Big East heads into this year’s Sweet Sixteen with three teams, as the conference is sending a message to the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee that they deserved more than just three bids. Connecticut, Marquette and Creighton are definitely title contenders.
No. 1 seeds have done well in the Sweet 16, winning 19 of their last 24 games. This year will see all four top seeds in the Sweet 16. Despite the fact that top seeds have done well overall in the Sweet 16, keep in mind that at least one team seeded No. 7 through No. 11 has reached the Final Four every year since 2011 except in 2012 and 2019. The matchup between No. 2 and No. 3 seeds in the Sweet Sixteen has seen the No. 2 seeds holding a 32-18 record all-time against the No. 3 seeds.
This is the weekend that separates the men from the boys as anyone can win one or two games in the NCAA Tournament. At this point, teams have actually been able to do some scouting for upcoming opponents and that hurts the smaller programs that can no longer sneak up on their opponents.
NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen Format
The Sweet Sixteen often serves as midnight striking for Cinderella in the NCAA Tournament. With a handful of exceptions, the darlings of the first two rounds find that they don’t have enough to make it to the Elite Eight.
All of the winners in the Sweet 16 will play in the Elite Eight two days later, and that's where the nets get cut down for teams that are headed to college basketball's version of Mecca, the Final Four.
2024 NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen Results
South Region:
(1) Houston 51, (4) Duke 54
(11) NC State 67, (2) Marquette 58
East Region:
(1) UConn 82, (5) San Diego State 52
(3) Illinois 72, (2) Iowa State 69
Midwest Region:
(1) Purdue 80, (5) Gonzaga 68
(3) Creighton 75, (2) Tennessee 82
West Region:
(1) North Carolina 87, (4) Alabama 89
(6) Clemson 77, (2) Arizona 72
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