So
last week the NCAA Tournament kicked off an what a tournament is has been there
has been multiple Cinderella stories to tell and lots of teams that showed up
only to be bounced like a check and sent home to whine about it all offseason.
This is the 1st year in my recent memory that we have a 12 (Oregon)
13 (LeSalle) and…wow…. A 15 (FGCU) are all in the sweet 16 and the parody is
off the chains in the 1st 2 rounds. Cant wait till next week to see
what else happens. These are the matchups that caught my eye throughout the
weekend that was…
Day One
A.
EST/
#12 California beats #5 UNLV 64-61: California stunnedeveryonebut CAL fans
as they toppled the UNLV Running Rebels toadvance tothenext round and be knocked
out of the Tourney by 4 seed Syracuse…
B.
MW/
#12 Oregon beats #5 Oklahoma St. 68-55: 12 seed Oregon didn’t shock anyone
on the west coast as they shocked the NCAA tounament committee that gave the PAC12 with little respect in
thisyears tournament…
C.
WST/
#14 Harvard beats #3 New Mexico 68-62: 14 seed Harvard pulled off the upset
of the day as they send home the heavly favored Lobo’s in this 1st round
battle…
Day Two
D.
WST/
#12 Ole Miss beats #5 Wisconsin 57-46: Everyone including me thought that
coming out of the BIG10 the Badgers would breeze through the Rebels of Ole
Miss. But it wasn’t to be as Ole Miss ran over the Badgers to get the 1st
round victory…
E.
WST/
#13 LeSalle beats #4 Kansas St. 63-61: The 13 seed LeSalle showed the world
again how close these teams arein talentas they become the 5th of 8
double digit seed teams to advanceinto the next round…
F.
STH/
#15 FGCU beats #2 Georgetown 78-68: In thebiggest upset of the tournament
as the Eagles of Florida Gulf Coast College showed the world that even the little
guy can geta win in the tournament of top teams…
G.
WST/
#10 Iowa St beats #7 Norte Dame 76-58: The Fighting Irish came into the
game as a Big East top team. But they left feeling like they missed something
or left it behind. It was their dignity as they dropped the game to the
Cyclones…
H.
STH/
#11 Minnesota beats #6 UCLA 83-63: In the one caseof a Pac 12 team being
overrated it was the Bruins as they were topped by the Gophers who lost in the
next round…
Day One Top
Performers
1.
D.Nix
(Mich St) 23pts, 15reb, 1Asst
2.
D.Evans
(Gonz) 24pts, 6reb, 1Asst
Day Two Top
Performers
3.
A,Hollins
(MINN) 28pts, 9reb, 5Asst
4.
P.Jackson
(BAY) 26pts, 3reb, 16Asst
The first 2 days yielded 8 upsets the biggest of which saw Florida
Gulf Coast topple the Big East power house Georgetown in convincing fashion.
All in total 6 top 5 seeds in various brackets fell in the 1st
round. (Once again something that I cannot remember happening in the tournament
in recent years.) They said that this year’s field was a close from top to
bottom more than any in recent memory. Now on to the rest of the weekend…
Day Three
A.
#12
Oregon beats #4 St.Louis 74-57: The Ducks shocked the world again as the
moved on to the sweet sixteen by beating St.louis pretty handidly in this round
of 32 game…
B.
#9
Wichita State beats #1 Gonzaga 76-70: the #9 seed Witchita beating the
Bulldogs was not as big of an upset as you would think. Because if you look at
how the 2 teams have been playing all season the Shockers have been the better
team. So they advance…
Day Four
C.
#13 LeSalle
beats #12 Ole Miss 76-74: The Exploders hold on to get the upset and advance
to the sweet sixteen as the beat theRebels to become the 2nd of 3
double digit teams to advance to the Sweet Sixteen…
D.
#15
FGCU beats #7 San Diego St 81-71: The Eagles kept the ball running as they
advanced past San Diego St to get to the Sweet Sixteen and face the Gators of
Florida…
Day Three Top
Performer
1.
H.McGary
(Mich) 21pts, 14reb, 1Asst
Day Four Top
Performers
2.
J.Franklin
(SDSU) 20pts, 11reb, 4Asst
3.
J.Whitney
(KANS) 16pts,16reb,2Asst
Now with all this excitement surrounding this years March Madness
tournament I think I will be sitting down to watch almost every game that is
played from here on out because if this pattern stays true to form we might
just see Florida Gulf Coast become the next Butler or Gonzaga and blast
themselves onto the map getting into the Final Four or a Nat. Title Game. Check
in next week and see….
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