The Wisconsin Badgers and Arizona Wildcats are playing in the Elite 8 of the NCAA tournament on Saturday night and the west regional game starts up after Dayton and Florida and the game is live streaming from the March Madness website past 8:50 pm ET and has the Pac-12 and Big Ten teams looking to advance to their first Final Four in many years.
The game has a number of great players on both sides, including Aaron Gordon, Nick Johnson, Kaleb Tarczewski, Frank Kaminsky, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson and Josh Gasser along with Ben Brust and he comes in as the Badgers' all-time leading three point shooter and these names will be factors on Saturday night. Johnson and Gordon are two of the best players in the country and they will be the focus for the Wildcats and Johnson comes in as a player of the year candidate, while Gordon is a the freshman of the year in the Pac-12 and they will be the prime players for the Wildcats.
Florida is the first team to make it into the Final Four this year and it's fitting, as they are the number one overall seed in the tournament and they won over the surprise team in Dayton and that was by 10 points and now they are in with just two losses this entire season and they dominated in the first half with a 38-24 lead. The Gators are the first into the Final Four and that was expected by many and now Arizona comes in scoring over 70 points per game and they have been very impressive this season and after winning in the last round against SDSU they are trying to get coach Sean Miller to his farthest round as head coach in five years and they are looking to move on along with Wisconsin, as neither have done it in years.
Tarczewski and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson will be tough up front and Kaminsky comes in leading the team in scoring and rebounding and both teams are very efficient shooting the ball. This is the only one and two matchup in the tournament and these teams have the chance to get through to the next round and historically these games have been close in this round and the Wildcats come in with two straight losses in the Elite Eight and they haven't been able to win against a number two or number one seed in the Regional Final since back in 2001 according to the AP.
Wisconsin has not been able to win against a top four team under Bo Ryan and now the Arizona team comes in with 11 straight games against higher seeds and this matchups should be a great one.
Check here for the Arizona Wildcats and Wisconsin Badgers coverage from the March Madness website.