NCAA Tournament Challenge Bracket - ESPN

Ritley said:

So many salty articles about how the first day was boring and awful just because there weren't huge upsets. Must be the people that only watch when march comes around

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I think casuals love the upsets and chaos while purists want to see blue bloods play each other.

It's a tough call because a Kansas-Kentucky match up or Kansas-UNC match up in the Final Four would be great drama and bragging rights, but watching Kansas flame out early is always rewarding, and seeing the FGCUs (Dunk City) win unexpectedly against the Georgetowns is fun.

Personally I like an upset or two but I prefer seeing the higher seeds playing late in the tourney.

I'm 15/16 and was one late shot away from being perfect. Fucking Princeton.

Ritley said:

Even though there weren't many upsets there were still a lot of really close games. Even the 1 seeds were close at the half.

I mean do people really expect every 3 seed to lose or something?

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You've got no complaints from me, I agree that it's been a really decent tourney so far.

Vandy - NW: unnecessary foul at the end costing Vandy the game
ND - Princeton: tight 5-12, Princeton had a chance of winning with 10 seconds left, missed 3
Middle Tenn - Minn: 5-12 upset (though not really)
VCU - StM: nice comeback by VCU after being down as much as 17, lost in the end but made it a game
WVU - Bucknell: gave up a commanding lead to give Bucknell a chance late
Nova - Mt St M: 1 vs 16 only up 1 at the half
Virginia - UNCW: was close I think
Xavier - MD: 11-6 upset (again not really)
FGCU was holding their own for a while against FSU

Largest margins were Nova against the 16 seed and Arizona against the 15 seed. Every other game was pretty tight ie. nice matchups.

Also: I watch too much basketball.

Ritley said:

Looks like Michigan is going to hold on. Don't see them making 55% of threes (16-29) in every game like this.

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I have Michigan moving on and beating Louisville in the next round, that may be a little greedy but they've been so hot, reminded me a little of 8 seed UConn a few years back and I don't buy all the ACC hype.

Ritley said:

I don't either, but I also don't trust a team that needs to shoot 55% on 29 three pointers in order to win in a pretty close game. I don't think Louisville is as good as the experts keep claiming for sure though.

I mean if Michigan "only" shot 48% from 3 then they could have been looking at a loss

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LOL, don't look now...