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NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament: First round
Tipoff: 9:55 p.m., Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Des Moines, Iowa
Records: Penn State (22-13); Texas A&M (25-0)
TV: TBS
Radio: Penn State Radio Network
Notable: This is the Midwest Region. Penn State is the No. 10 seed. A&M is the No. 7 seed. … Penn State is 8-2 in its last 10 games. … The winner gets the Texas-Colgate winner on Saturday. … The Aggies finished 15-3 in the SEC and lost to Alabama in the conference tournament final. … A&M head coach Buzz Williams runs his offense through Wade Taylor IV, who averages 16.5 ppg and 4.0 apg. Tyrece Radford follows with 13.2 ppg. … This is the fifth all-time meeting between the two schools. Penn State is 0-4 against A&M. … The last time Penn State beat an SEC team was in 2019 against Alabama, 73-71. … Only two Penn State players have ever played in the NCAA Tournament: Camren Wynter with Drexel in 2021, and Michael Henn with UC-Davis in 2017. … Penn State has hit 364 3-pointers in its 35 games, a school record.
Mirror prediction: Penn State, 61-57
Mirror prediction record: 23-11
-- Scott Franco