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Here are the teams who got robbed by the bid thieves on Selection Sunday.
Bubble drama became a major storyline entering the 2024 NCAA tournament. This year’s bubble situation was stacked with comparable resumes and complicated conference tournament developments. The unpredictable weekend altered so many dreams and changed a great deal of travel plans.
Five bid thieves: New Mexico, Duquesne, UAB, Oregon and N.C. State became agents of chaos to the NCAA tournament committee’s plans.

We have finally made it to the most wonderful time of the year, as the NCAA Tournament field was announced on Sunday evening. Unfortunately for a number of teams, conference tourney week caused a massive amount of chaos when it comes to teams that were on the bubble. 
If you want a review of what caused this craziness, having 21 different teams that were not one-seeds win their conference tournament didn’t help.

The first weekend of March Madness is one of the biggest sports betting events of the year.

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The 50th Players Championship might have been the most exciting, with Scottie Scheffler making PGA Tour history.
Scottie Scheffler has done it again. He became the first player in the 50 years of The Players Championship to win the event in back-to-back years.
Not to mention, he also went back-to-back on the PGA Tour after Scheffler won the Arnold Palmer Invitational last week.
He is World No. 1 for a reason, and his performance proved it again. But unlike Bay Hill, this win came with an unbelievable amount of drama Sunday.

Golf can be a cruel, cruel game. Anyone who’s ever picked up a club and walked onto a course knows that. Reigning U.S. Open Champion Wyndham Clark got a harsh reminder Sunday at the PLAYERS Championship. 
Clark held a four-shot lead after 36 holes but coughed that up on Saturday. Xander Schauffele went off to take a one-stroke lead over Clark. But, as always, Scottie Scheffler was lurking inside the Top 10, five shots back.

Kyrie Irving called game for the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday, sinking an incredible shot ahead of the final buzzer in order to lift his team to a win over the reigning-champion Denver Nuggets.
With the game knotted at 105, Irving made a cut during the inbounds play and received the ball in stride. He attacked the middle of the court before throwing up a difficult left-handed running hook shot around Nikola Jokic, which miraculously found the bottom of the net.
It was a critical win for the Mavericks, too. With the 107–105 victory, Dallas (39–29) moves into the No.

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Wyndham Clark came within millimeters of forcing a playoff with Players Championship winner, Scottie Scheffler.
Wyndham Clark did not have his best stuff on Saturday and Sunday of The Players Championship, but he certainly did not deserve the lip-out that beset him on the 72nd hole.
Needing a birdie to tie Scottie Scheffler at 20-under, Clark hit his approach on 18 to 17-feet, giving himself a prime opportunity to force a three-hole playoff.

Forty things you can expect to see in this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament:
1) More points. Teams currently are averaging 73.6 points per game. That’s the highest since 2018, when the average was 73.8, and the second most since 1995. Generally speaking, teams are playing faster and shooting more three-pointers, which has made for a more viewer-friendly product. Six of the top seven scoring teams in the nation will be in the tournament: Alabama, Kentucky, Arizona, Samford, Florida and Gonzaga.
2) Fewer charges.

The Chicago Bears and Justin Fields finally parted ways on Saturday, with the young quarterback offloaded in a trade with the Pittsburgh Steelers in exchange for a future sixth-round draft pick, which could potentially become a fourth-rounder. 
With the Bears seemingly destined to select USC quarterback Caleb Williams with the No. 1 pick, they opted to move on from Fields ahead of the draft. 
Apparently, there was no shortage of interest in the 25-year-old signal-caller, with at least four other teams having inquired with the Bears about a potential Fields trade.

An incredible final hour of golf at The Players Championship ended with Scheffler atop the leaderboard.