NCAA First Round Thread

[X-band '01]

No major surprises so far:

Atlantic 10:
(6E) Penn State over (11E) Dayton
(10ME) Temple over (7ME) Arizona State

West Region:
(1) Stanford over (16) UC-Davis
(9) St. John's over (8) Texas Tech
(3) UCLA over (14) Montana
(11) Gonzaga over (6) Iowa
(4) Kentucky over (13) Hampton (OT)
(5) North Carolina over (12) Fresno State

Others:
(2E) Duke over (15E) UT-Martin
(10E) Marist over (7E) Iowa State
(3E) DePaul over (14E) Navy
(1ME) Tennessee over (16ME) Stetson
(8ME) Marquette over (9ME) Texas
(2ME) Notre Dame over (15ME) Utah
(4ME) Ohio State over (13ME) UCF
(5ME) Georgia Tech over (12ME) Bowling Green

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East Region Results:
(1) UConn over (16) Hartford
(9) Purdue over (8) Kansas State
(4) Maryland over (13) St. Francis-PA
(5) Georgetown over (12) Princeton

Mideast Region Results:
(3) Miami over (14) Gardner-Webb
(6) Oklahoma over (11) James Madison

Midwest Region Results:
(1) Baylor over (16) Prairie View A&M
(9) West Virginia over (8) Houston
(2) Texas A&M over (15) McNeese State
(7) Rutgers over (10) Louisiana Tech
(3) Florida State over (14) Samford
(6) Georgia over (11) Middle Tennessee State
(4) Michigan State over (13) Northern Iowa
(5) Green Bay over (12) Arkansas-Little Rock

Add that up, and only 6 of the lower-seeded teams won their 1st-round games. The lowest seed to win (#11 Gonzaga) was playing on their home court.

[Titanxman04]

Nice to see the Lady Musketeers playing well. I wish I could make it Tuesday, but I have work and then straight to coaching my lacrosse team in the evening. This time of year, I'm just too damn busy to do anything.

Would have liked to see BGSU steal an upset, but such things happen.

[XU-PA]

Sorry to hear that titan, we could use your voice.

As you look down the list of winners in the first round, it's still a haves vs have nots tourney.
The "big 6" conferences taking everything, except for Marist, Green Bay, Zags, Temple and us.
The womens game is still big school dominant, but having 5 in there from our "lesser" conferences is a good thing, also 3 of those 5 we're "upsets" being that they were lower seeds and those three were also smaller conference teams over those from the big 6!
The bad news is that the other 20 some lesser conference teams in the toruney got beat in the first round.

The more upsets you get, the more wins from smaller underdog "cinderella" teams, the better the tournament will be and I think the more popular it will become with the masses.

[X-band '01]

The whiparound coverage stayed with teams like UConn and Baylor for far too long yesterday; ESPN2 did a piss poor job in terms of showing the best games of the day. There were a few close ones but their game selection had to be driving viewers away.