Florida Rises as Conference Tournaments Decide NCAA Field

Conference tournaments now determine the final 68-team National Collegiate Athletic Association field, and bracketology shifts with Florida rising after Marquette University's upset of the University of Connecticut.At the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Charlotte, North Carolina, Stanford University meets the University of Pittsburgh in a first-round game while the University of California Berkeley opens against Florida State University and Duke University arrives ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press Top 25.Bubble teams such as the University of Oklahoma, the University of Cincinnati and Marquette University can still steal at-large bids, and players Ebuka Okorie and Cameron Boozer lead conference award lists as coaches scramble to secure tournament positioning.
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