March Madness Open Thread 1
Mar 16th, 2007 | 7 responses
Not to distract everyone from the Plame-gate breaks, but its also March Madness time! My dad and I agree–these two days (the amazing frantic energy of round 1) are the best in all of sports.
For all of that, though, it was a pretty dull first day. Virginia Commonwealth upset my beloved Duke Blue Devils, but I actually called that in my bracket (it’s painful to pick your favorite team to go down in round one in an upset, but Duke was entering the tournament on three game skid and 4-7 in its last 11). I think that next year Duke will be a very strong team (assuming they don’t lose anyone to the draft), but this year they’re too young and too raw. And mid-season surge notwithstanding, I still don’t trust Greg Paulus in the clutch.
Aside from that, GW gets the award for biggest bust of the day. You can never get too angry when one of your upset picks doesn’t pan out (that’s why they’re “upsets”), but losing by 33 to Vanderbilt is 1-16 seed territory.
Finally, I’ve been a Marquette fan this season after watching them beat Duke in impressive fashion early this season. My brother tells me that the “early season Marquette” kind of disintegrated as the year went on. That would have been nice to know prior to having them beat North Carolina in round two–seeing as they dropped to Michigan State last night. Worse yet: both teams played pretty bad, so I think UNC will stomp MSU next round.
Brag, lament, or otherwise chat as you see fit.
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7 Responses to “March Madness Open Thread 1”
Oh no… a Dookie
How can you ever root for that team and their Bobby Knight protege coach?
Go Carolina!
Indeed a great opening round. I’m with Chris. Go Heels!
It is so rare a VANDY alum has a lot to cheer about in sports (aside from women’s basketball). We will see what happens in the next round but I am throughly enjoying this result. Interesting mid-game scores: Texas A&M CC 25/Univ of Wisc. 9. Winthrop is also up on Notre Dame.
GW was the longest of longshots to move on. The A10 was pretty dreadful this year. Xavier was the only team of real quality. (UMass might be close, but they couldn’t get past my Billikens in the conference tourney, so the NIT gets to enjoy them.)
For my money it was the inclusion of Stanford that was the biggest joke. That a team as inconsistent as Louisville could clock this supposedly “battel tested” team should give the selection committee pause about just how highly they value the “power” conferences.
It wont, but it should.
Apparently someone didn’t see Vandy beat Florida recently either.
This is my favorite sporting event by a wide margin. I must admit I miss the glory days of Umass.
My nephew attends BC and is pretty excited about the tournament. Unfortunately they go up against Georgetown next. I just can’t see them matching up inside with that team. But yup never know. Anything can happen.
Yeah but UMass stomped my Bama to dust in the NIT….like that matters LOL.