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How to buy NCAA Tournament Portland Regional Women’s Sweet 16 and Elite 8 tickets

Want to watch March Madness and the women’s Sweet 16/Elite 8 live in Portland this weekend? Tickets are still available for as little as $23.

Only 16 teams remain in the 2024 NCAA Women’s Tournament, and half of them will be playing in Portland, Ore. this weekend.

That’s right, March Madness heads to Portland as Moda Center at the Rose Quarter is set to host a weekend of Sweet 16 and Elite matchups that will eventually send two teams onto Cleveland and the Final Four.

SHOP: Portland Regional Sweet 16 and Elite 8 tickets

Individual tickets to Portland’s Sweet 16 action give access to both games on a single day.

On Friday, March 29, No. 2 Stanford kicks off the Portland Regionals when they take on No. 3 North Carolina State at 7:30 p.m. EDT.

That game will be immediately followed by No. 1 Texas vs. No. 5 Gonzaga.

SHOP: Friday Sweet 16 tickets for as little as $23

On Saturday, March 30, the other Portland Regional gets underway with JuJu Watkins and No. 1 USC vs. No. 5 Baylor at 5:30 p.m. EDT.

That game will be immediately followed by Paige Bueckers and No. 3 UConn vs. No. 7 Duke.

SHOP: Saturday Sweet 16 tickets for as little as $37

If you want to catch all the action, weekend passes are still available for as little as $146.

The weekend passes include access to all four of Thursday and Friday’s Sweet 16 games and then both Saturday’s and Sunday’s Elite Eight showdowns between the winners of Thursday and Friday’s Sweet 16 contests.

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How to buy Sweet 16 and Elite 8 tickets in Detroit for 2024 NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional

Want to watch March Madness and the Sweet 16/Elite 8 live in Detroit this weekend? Tickets are still available for as little as $210.

Only 16 teams remain in the 2024 NCAA Men’s Tournament, and four of them will be playing in Detroit, Michigan this weekend.

This year, March Madness returns to Detrtoit as the Little Caesars Arena is set to host a weekend of Sweet 16 and Elite matchups that will eventually send one team onto Phoenix and the Final Four.

SHOP: Detroit Regional Sweet 16 tickets

Tickets to Detroit Sweet 16 action give access to both games and as of publication are still available for as little as $210.

No. 1 Purdue tips off Detroit’s Sweet 16 action when they take on No. 5 Gonzaga at 7:39 p.m. EDT.

That game will be immediately followed by No. 2 Tennessee vs. No. 3 Creighton.

SHOP: Purdue vs. Gonzaga and Tennessee vs. Creighton tickets

If you want to catch all the action, weekend passes are still available for as little as $354.

The weekend passes include access to both of Thursday’s Sweet 16 games and Saturday’s Elite Eight showdown between the winners of Friday night’s games.

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How to buy Sweet 16 and Elite 8 tickets in Detroit for 2024 NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional

Want to watch March Madness and the Sweet 16/Elite 8 live in Detroit this weekend? Tickets are still available for as little as $210.

Only 16 teams remain in the 2024 NCAA Men’s Tournament, and four of them will be playing in Detroit, Michigan this weekend.

This year, March Madness returns to Detrtoit as the Little Caesars Arena is set to host a weekend of Sweet 16 and Elite matchups that will eventually send one team onto Phoenix and the Final Four.

SHOP: Detroit Regional Sweet 16 tickets

Tickets to Detroit Sweet 16 action give access to both games and as of publication are still available for as little as $210.

No. 1 Purdue tips off Detroit’s Sweet 16 action when they take on No. 5 Gonzaga at 7:39 p.m. EDT.

That game will be immediately followed by No. 2 Tennessee vs. No. 3 Creighton.

SHOP: Purdue vs. Gonzaga and Tennessee vs. Creighton tickets

If you want to catch all the action, weekend passes are still available for as little as $354.

The weekend passes include access to both of Thursday’s Sweet 16 games and Saturday’s Elite Eight showdown between the winners of Friday night’s games.

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How to buy Sweet 16 and Elite 8 tickets in Detroit for 2024 NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional

Want to watch March Madness and the Sweet 16/Elite 8 live in Detroit this weekend? Tickets are still available for as little as $210.

Only 16 teams remain in the 2024 NCAA Men’s Tournament, and four of them will be playing in Detroit, Michigan this weekend.

This year, March Madness returns to Detrtoit as the Little Caesars Arena is set to host a weekend of Sweet 16 and Elite matchups that will eventually send one team onto Phoenix and the Final Four.

SHOP: Detroit Regional Sweet 16 tickets

Tickets to Detroit Sweet 16 action give access to both games and as of publication are still available for as little as $210.

No. 1 Purdue tips off Detroit’s Sweet 16 action when they take on No. 5 Gonzaga at 7:39 p.m. EDT.

That game will be immediately followed by No. 2 Tennessee vs. No. 3 Creighton.

SHOP: Purdue vs. Gonzaga and Tennessee vs. Creighton tickets

If you want to catch all the action, weekend passes are still available for as little as $354.

The weekend passes include access to both of Thursday’s Sweet 16 games and Saturday’s Elite Eight showdown between the winners of Friday night’s games.

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How to buy Purdue vs. Gonzaga NCAA March Madness Sweet 16 tickets

Want to watch Purdue vs. Gonzaga in person? Tickets are still available for this Sweet 16 matchup in Detroit, MI.

Take a breath, Boilermakers and Zags fans, your teams are moving onto the Sweet 16!

No. 1 Purdue defeated No. 8 Utah St 106-67 behind 23 points and 14 rebounds from Zach Edey.

No. 5 Gonzaga rode a balanced second half performance to a 89-68 victory against No. 4 Kansas.

Both teams advance to the Sweet 16 in the Midwest Region with relative ease, and will likely play a closer game in Detroit on Friday, March 29.

Purdue vs. Gonzaga tickets are still available to the Sweet 16 matchup for as little as $216.

Tickets include access to both Sweet 16 games, the other game will feature No. 2 Tennessee vs. No. 3 Creighton.

Weekend passes are also still available, and include both Sweet 16 games and the subsequent Elite 8 game in Detroit.

At the time of publication Detroit Regional weekend passes are still available for as little as $373.

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How to buy Purdue vs. Gonzaga NCAA March Madness Sweet 16 tickets

Want to watch Purdue vs. Gonzaga in person? Tickets are still available for this Sweet 16 matchup in Detroit, MI.

Take a breath, Boilermakers and Zags fans, your teams are moving onto the Sweet 16!

No. 1 Purdue defeated No. 8 Utah St 106-67 behind 23 points and 14 rebounds from Zach Edey.

No. 5 Gonzaga rode a balanced second half performance to a 89-68 victory against No. 4 Kansas.

Both teams advance to the Sweet 16 in the Midwest Region with relative ease, and will likely play a closer game in Detroit on Friday, March 29.

Purdue vs. Gonzaga tickets are still available to the Sweet 16 matchup for as little as $216.

Tickets include access to both Sweet 16 games, the other game will feature No. 2 Tennessee vs. No. 3 Creighton.

Weekend passes are also still available, and include both Sweet 16 games and the subsequent Elite 8 game in Detroit.

At the time of publication Detroit Regional weekend passes are still available for as little as $373.

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Trojans Wire discusses USC-Gonzaga on the Locked On Zags podcast

We are talking USC-Gonzaga.

If you have been reading Trojans Wire for the past three years, first of all: Thank you. Second, if you have been reading our site the past three years, you might recall that Andy Patton used to be a staff writer here. Patton is now the host of the Gonzaga-centric Locked On Zags podcast. He has also hosted the Locked On College Basketball podcast. He has recently joined College Sports Wire as a contributing writer with an emphasis on college basketball.

Patton reached out to us at Trojans Wire to get our views of Saturday night’s big USC-Gonzaga game in Las Vegas. There is a lot of pressure on USC to at least play well in this game if not win it outright. Isaiah Collier takes center stage against one of the most successful programs in college basketball.

Andy and I discussed the USC roster, the bumpy ride for the Trojans in the month of November, and some of the key components of this game against the Zags. It’s a good primer for Saturday night, at least from a USC vantage point.

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No more trial runs: Isaiah Collier needs to be the big dog versus Gonzaga

It has been a bumpy ride for Isaiah Collier in his young #USC career. Now comes a prove-it moment vs Gonzaga.

The preliminaries are over. Now comes a battle with Gonzaga. Now comes a main-event moment for USC basketball, the kind of game made for a big-time point guard and the No. 1 recruit in the United States for the Class of 2023.

This is the kind of game Isaiah Collier came to USC to play in. This is the kind of stage Isaiah Collier was meant to embrace. This clash against Gonzaga is the kind of situation Collier needs to own and conquer in order to become a top NBA draft prospect. This is a matchup Collier must figure out in order to give USC a real belief it can make a deep run in the 2024 NCAA Tournament.

This is a showcase in which USC needs to put its best foot forward. USC being at its best means that Collier is at his best. Collier is the most talented player on this roster. He needs to lead by example and enable his teammates to follow him.

We saw Collier’s best against Kansas State. USC won by 13 in a performance which got everyone excited. We haven’t seen that version of Collier since then.

It needs to return against Gonzaga. If it does, USC could begin to realize the promise and potential this season offered when it began a few weeks ago.

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Anton Watson is the Gonzaga player USC must be able to contain on Saturday

Elementary: USC must stop Watson.

The Gonzaga Bulldogs defeated the UCLA Bruins last week at the Maui Invitational in Hawaii. A team which can beat UCLA on a neutral floor has already set the bar fairly high. The Zags have established themselves at a higher level than USC has in the first three weeks of the college basketball season.

No individual player has set a higher standard on the Zags than Anton Watson. If you watched that UCLA game, you would readily agree.

USC has Isaiah Collier and Boogie Ellis. The two players have had some bright moments early in the season. However, neither has had a game as great as the one Watson forged against UCLA. Watson smoked the Bruins with 32 points on 14-of-15 shooting. The raw output is impressive enough, but the lights-out shooting numbers — near perfect — are eye-popping.

UCLA has a good defense, too, better than USC’s. The Trojans are really going to have their hands full with Watson. It’s elementary.

If they don’t find a Sherlock Holmes solution to this mystery, they are going to lose on Saturday night in Las Vegas.

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Gonzaga looks like the class of the West Coast Conference again; USC will have its hands full

Gonzaga sets a high standard once again.

Some college basketball pundits and prognosticators felt before the season began that the Saint Mary’s Gaels might knock Gonzaga off its perch as the best team in the West Coast Conference. After three weeks of action, that belief has been punctured.

Saint Mary’s is losing games left and right. Gonzaga clearly looks like the team to beat in the WCC. The Zags look like a genuinely strong team. They might not be as good as they were in the 2021 and 2022 seasons in which they were a No. 1 seed — that is a different conversation — but they are still the class of their conference and a definite top-20 group.

Gonzaga enters Saturday’s game against USC in Las Vegas with a 5-1 record. The Zags’ only loss is to No. 1 Purdue. They beat UCLA on a neutral court, which is a significant indication of how good they are. This is not the best Gonzaga team in recent years, but it is still a team which should expect to be in the Sweet 16 and gain a chance next March of making a run to the Final Four.

USC wants to be where Gonzaga is. The Trojans can do something about that against Mark Few and the Zags. Saturday’s game starts just after 7 p.m. Pacific time in Las Vegas on ESPN.

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