5 NCAA Tournament Cinderellas To Consider

March 12, 2015
Chicago

The time to dance is here. The NCAA contest joint will be suggested Sunday, so let’s take a demeanour during a best approach to acquire your stripes and win that fugitive bureau pool: Finding your Cinderellas! Here are 5 intensity hulk killers to consider. (We aren’t inventory Mar stalwarts Gonzaga

SMU

larry brown

As we wrote months ago, get aboard a “Pony Express.” Larry Brown, a usually manager ever to win both a inhabitant pretension and an NBA title, had his patrol attacked of an NCAA Tournament bid final deteriorate and has been on a goal ever since. Despite not carrying a truly widespread scorer, a Mustangs’ collection of able options creates them wily to defend. But Nic Moore (above with Brown), a 5-foot-9 jitterbug, has been a anchor, earning unanimous All-American Conference honors. Only a junior, he averages over 14 points and 5 assists and is a engine for SMU’s singular transition opportunities. There is also 6-foot-9 youth Markus Kennedy, who gives Brown a loyal low-post hazard while fortifying a edge as well. SMU does not play fast, and army opponents to ensure a minute descent sets for prolonged stretches. As a result, a Mustangs could infer to be a formidable out.

Northern Iowa

seth tuttle

This is a best group manager Ben Jacobson has had, and that includes a 2010 patrol that dissapoint top-seeded Kansas en track to a usually Sweet 16 coming in propagandize history. For a Panthers, it starts and ends with comparison brazen Seth Tuttle (above). A Wooden Award finalist, a 6-foot-8 Tuttle is a matchup calamity who is as intelligent as he is skilled. He ranks in a tip 5 in PER, and is a usually actor in college basketball to fire over 60 percent from 3 and over 50 percent from a floor. As a team, a Panthers widespread we out with 4 shooters who modify 40 percent or improved from distance. Better yet, they have turn a superb defensive section as well, ranking 19th nationally in efficiency, per KenPom

BYU

kyle collinsworth

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Manhattan

steve masiello

Making a second uninterrupted outing to a dance, MAAC champion Manhattan College — from a Bronx — presents a plea since of a 40 mins of full-court pressure. Head manager Steve Masiello, 37, is a Rick Pitino footman who employs a same suffocating 2-2-1 press that Pitino does. Masiello’s team, while undersized, possesses good speed that can trouble even a many trained of teams. Manhattan is eighth nationally in defensive turnover percentage, a shave that can assistance equivalent a miss of distance in a frontcourt. The Jaspers are led by comparison Emmy Andujar (17 points, 8 rebounds per game) and Maryland send Ashton Pankey (13 and 6). Maybe only as cool, this is a register done adult roughly wholly of players that were not heavily recruited and clearly play with a chip on their shoulder.

Davidson

tyler kalinoski

The Wildcats don’t have Stephen Curry suiting up, though they do have copiousness of three-point shooters who consistently widespread teams out and force bigs divided from a hoop. Senior ensure Tyler Kalinoski (above) warranted Atlantic 10 Player of a Year honors and leads a approach offensively, averaging 17 points on 43 percent from low while finishing tops in a joining with 5.6 assists in discussion games. Davidson, that ranks fourth in a republic in scoring and sixth in practiced descent efficiency, per KenPom

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