Norfolk State Men, Saat 16., Draw

Travesty? Perhaps.

Motivation? Definitely.

The men's basketball team in Norfolk received a seed No. 16 and will play in Raleigh, North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, No. 1 Saatgut No. 1 on Friday.

The game is part of the West region and will tip over to TNT at 6.50 p.m.

Florida (30-4) became second in the Southeastern Conference during the regular season and defeated Tennessee on Sunday in the championship game of the Southeasters Conference tournament. The Gators won 12 of their last 13 games.

Norfolk State (24-10)-with his fourth season in a row in a row for the fourth time in the NCAA tournament after performing in 2012, 2021 and 2022. (2022).

This season, the Spartaners shared the MEAC championship of the regular season and won the Meac tournament title at Scope on Saturday with a 66: 65 victory over the state of South Carolina.

“If we get a 16, it will obviously become a travesty,” said NSU trainer Robert Jones on Sunday after the Meac championship game and praised the Spartans to avoid a No. 1 seed in the opening round.

The NCAA tournament selection committee apparently disagreed.

The NSU played a robust schedule for non-conferences, the games against Stanford, the ACC, and three teams that made the NCAA tournament clip on Sunday: AT-LARGE-squad Tennessee (No. 2) and Baylor (No. 9) and Western Athletic Conference Tournament, Grand Canyon (No. 13).

The Spartans have lost all three games, but the NSU has victories over two teams in the field, including a three-point victory at the High Point (No. 13 Seed) and a 17-point victory against Alabama State (first four/No. 16).

“It is a travesty to get a 16 seed, but we'll be ready!”, Jones wrote to X.

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The NSU watched on Sunday from Roger Browns Restaurant and Sportbar in Portsmouth how its latest performance developed in one season, in which Highlight Reel Dunkmaster Christian Ings ended up on ESPN's top games and the one-point tournament championship championship on Sunday.

Brian Moore Jr. von Norfolk State was the most outstanding player of the Meac tournament, and Ings moored Moore in the Meac All touring team. Moore leads the Spartaner at 18.4 points per game.

Florida, trained by Todd Golden, is headed by Wachter Clayton Jr., an all-secret selection of the first team, which achieves an average of 17.3 points per game.

Norfolk State and Florida have already met: The Gators defeated the NSU 84-50 in the second round in 2012 after the Spartans had thrown off Missouri.

The men's NCAA tournament also includes Liberty (Conference USA tournament) and VCU (Atlantic 10 tournament Champion). Liberty (28-6) is a seed no. 12 in the south region and will play on Trutv No. 5 Oregon (24-9) on Friday in Seattle at 10:10 p.m. VCU (28-6) is a seed no. 11 and will play on TNT No. 6 by BYU in the East region in Denver on Thursday at 4:05 p.m.

After the men's show, the women in Norfolk State (30-4) learned that they had received a seed No. 13 and could play in Maryland No. 4 (23-7) on Saturday.

Jami Frankenberry, jami.frankenberry@pilotonline.com

Originally published: March 16, 2025 at 6.41 p.m. Edt