Another two bite the dust.
The first weekend of 2023 March Madness saw four 1-seeds between the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournament brackets make a disappointing exit before the Sweet 16.
Stanford and Indiana women’s basketball teams are the latest to leave the court slack-jawed, joining the Kansas and Purdue men’s teams in stunning early exits.
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Stanford’s 54-49 loss to 8-seeded Ole Miss on Sunday marks the Cardinal’s earliest NCAA exit since 2007. Stanford has been to the Sweet 16 a total of 28 times. There have only been two other times since the birth of the tournament in 1982 that they were eliminated prior to regional play.
While Stanford is accustomed to playing deep into March, Indiana entered this year’s tournament as a No. 1 seed for the first time in school history after posting 27 wins and winning the Big Ten regular-season championship. A 70-68 defeat Monday against 9-seeded Miami — a day after the Hoosiers’ men’s team also was eliminated by the Hurricanes — brought everything crashing down in Bloomington.
Indiana has only been to the NCAA Tournament nine times since it started over four decades ago. The last time the Hoosiers were eliminated in the second round was 2019,…
