March Madness Round 1 Open Thread

At the Half, Bob Knight and Texas Tech are tied with Boston College 39 all. Bob Knight's back at home in the NCAA tourney

At the Half, fourth seeded Maryland 44, 13 Davidson 43

6 Louisville leads 11 Stanford 46-22 at Halftime

March Madness deserves it's own fanbox. I'll go get on that

it would be really useful if the stupid cbs.sportsline online watching thingy worked

I'm amazed Texas Tech is hanging in there

If Maryland can survive Davidson's 3pt shooting, I think they could go fairly deep in the Tourney.

Why did Stanford get a bid again?

I can't watch the games at work. They blocked ALL streaming sites! So now the loss in productivity will be greater because people are bitching about not being able to see it

All of the higher seeds have won so far. Been a very boring tourney so far.

Finals as of 4:28 CDT:

• 7 BC OVER 10 TT 84-75
• 4 Maryland OVER 12 Davidson 82-70
• 6 Louisville OVER 11 Stanford 78-58
• 3 Washington St. OVER 14 Oral Roberts 70-54
• 5 Butler OVER 12 Old Dominion 57-46
• 2 Gtown OVER 15 Belmont 80-55
• 3 Texas A&M OVER 14 Penn 68-52

FP don't you have school?

OSU up 6-0. Duke up 3-2

I think I'll cover the OSU game here for now

Oden brings it down for 2. 8-0 Buckeyes

C Conn's Joe Seymour for the 3

Lewis on the 3.

Oden on the steal. Lewis for the three. 14-3 OSU. I will switch momentarily to Michigan St. when that starts, as that will be the game I'm getting

Shot Clock violation by C. Conn. I now will switch to MSU/Marquette. 14-3 OSU in the first

Raymar Morgan of MSU on the dunk. 2-0 MSU

Travis Walton on the play. 4-0 MSU. Burke of Marquette is fouled

Missed the free throw. still 4-0 MSU

Spartans again. 6-0 MSU

Duke is up 16-7 with 13:23 to go

Rebound by MSU, Marquette knocks it out

Foul on Burke. Spartans miss the shot, marquette rebound. MSU rebounds

OSU up 19-11. Duke up 22-9

MSU again. 8-0 and the steal

Offensive foul. Shot goes out of bounds and MSU ball agin

UCLA up 6-2

MSU on the rebound again

Three pointer by MSU. 11-0 at 8:34

UCLA up 9-8. Duke up 22-12. OSU up 23-11

MSU forces another turnover

3by Maurice Joseph. 14-0 MSU

Marquette puts up a three and takes the steal.

MSU up 20-9 with 7 minnutes to go in the first half. Kubian nails a three and it is now 20-12 MSU. At the Half, OSU up 35-17. Duke up 30-27. Ucla up 21-14. Final from earlier:

6 Vanderbuilt 77

11 GW 44

Marquette now down 5 at 20-15

BORING tournament. It is like watching the Flyers in the NHL this season. ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

3:19 to go in the first half, MSU up 22-15

Duke up 54-50. UCLA up 47-23. Osu up 63-46

This deserves a minus, but for the sake of my picks I find myself actually rooting for Duke...

The closest final score difference was 9 pts. No lower seed has yet to win a game. This is just a horrible tournament so far.

With about 7 minnutes to play, Duke is up 1. We may have our first upset in the making

VCU has taken the lead 68-67 with 5:45 to play

UCLA up 67-37. MSU up 52-38. OSU beats Weber St. 67-37.

Duke returns to take the lead, 69-68

UCLA def. Webber St. 70-42. MSU leads Marquette with 30 seconds 57-49

WHY DIDN'T DUKE RUN OUT MORE TIME?

Down goes Duke!

DUKE LOSES 79-77???!!!

Duke, with an 8-8 conference record, a first round loss in the their conference tournament, with a 3 game losing streak, and a record of 5-6 in their last 11, was NOT a 6th seed in the tournament. TO be honest with you, they deserved the NIT. But at least we get an upset in the dance today.

Stupid Duke.

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Pitt shouldn't be losing to Wright State... they keep throwing the ball away.

When will Pitt learn to go inside to Aaron Gray?

The Pitt game is sloppy... as usual.

Pitt-Wright St. are tied at 25. 8 Brigham Young leads 9 Xavier 44-36. UNC leads Eastern Kentucky 43-26. 7 Indiana leads 10 Gonzaga 34-29

All higher seeds are again winning.

Looks like Pitt decided to show up for their game finally....

10-0 run by Xavier.

And Xavier has come back and taken the lead. Will it last?

X can take it. its all about Stanley Burrell

I'm done for the Night, so I'll leave you all with one more scoreboard update covering all of today:

As of 10:10 PM CDT

• 4 Maryland 82, 13 Davidson 70
• 7 Boston College 84, 10 Texas Tech 75
• 6 Louisville 78, 11 Stanford 58
• 3 Washington St. 70, 14 Oral Roberts 54
• 3 Butler 57, 14 Old Dominion 44
• 2 Georgetown 80, 15 Belmont 55
• 3 Texas A&M 68, 14 Penn 52
• 6 Vanderbuilt 77, 11 Georgetown 44
• 11 VCU 79, 6 Duke 77
• 1 OSU 78, 16 Central Conn St. 57
• 9 Michigan St. 61, 8 Marquette 49
• 2 UCLA 70, 15 Webber St. 42
• 3 Pittsburg 43, 14 Wright St. (Half)
• 9 Xavier 57, 8 Brigham Young 55 (9:45)
• 1 UNC 47, 16 Eastern Kentucky 35 (Half)
• 7 Indiana 43, 10 Gonzage 35 (13:47)

Eastern Kentucky is smelling upset...

I am surprised that UNC still has a game on its hands.

Wow, imagine if UNC does go down tonight. Along with Duke. Will the ACC-lovers out there be able to cope?

Stick a fork in Zaga.

This has really been an awful day of games. Besides Duke, nothing else has been close.

Jesuits beat Mormons. BYU players are now permitted one less wife as result.

Most die hard ACC fans arent actually Duke or UNC fans. We appreciate what they do for our conference but we rarely cheer for them. Also anyone who saw Duke play this season knows they were not a typical Duke team. THey struggled in every aspect of the season.

Out of 16 games today, 1 upset, 1 close game b/w 8-9 seeds, the rest were not close. U-G-L-Y!

late finals from yesterday:

• 3 Pitt 79, 14 Wright State 58
• 9 Xavier 79, 8 Brigham Young 77
• 1 UNC 86, 16 Eastern Kentucky 65
• 7 Indiana 70, 10 Gonzaga 57

First Tipoff today is at 12:15 EDT with 4 Virginia vs. 13 Albany

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Tipoff Starts in one hour. Remember that this open thread continues throughout today and tomorrow!!!

I thought Georgia Tech would beat UNLV, but it hasn't even been a game so far. UNLV is dominating them.

1:00 First Upset Alert of the day: Memphis down to North Texas.

12:15 CDT Update:

• 4 Virgina 45, 13 Albany 25 (half)
• 6 UNLV 31, 11 GAtech 19 (2:07 1st half)
• *Upset Alert!!!* 2 Memphis 28, 15 North Texas 26 (4:25 1st Half)

Now Memphis is waking up.

These 3 games looks to be as boring as the games were yesterday. Memphis game was interesting for a bit, but it is becoming a blow-out quickly.

Virginia is just killing Albany. Wow.

You know, the UNLV v. GT game had the 3rd closest score of the tournament, but man, was that some UGLY basketball.

Finals as of 2:15 CDT:

• 7 UNLV 67, 10 GAtech 63 (sorry, Ddub)
• 4 Virginia 84, 13 Albany 57
• 2 Memphis 73, 15 North Texas 58

Man, anybody else watching the Notre Dame/Winthrop game? They just showed that Hooters commerical with Dickie V - Is he still alive? I've seen muppets that are more lifelike then him in that ad

Texas A&M Corpus Christi is starting strong against Wisconsin. 17-4.

Oh man, Notre Dame/Winthrop's going down to the wire... and Tennessee is destroying long beach, appearently.

And there's the dagger...

I'm just glad Wisconsin won

Christof, you can't be dissapointed in today's games. There have been some great comebacks and an overtime game.

I'm back for Day 3, and wow. We might have our first one seed going down. Just under 10 minnutes to go in the game, 9 Xavier 47, 1 OSU 41

8:00 to go and its 52-44 Xavier

I can't believe Xavier has the lead this late into the game.

55-44 XAVIER!!!!!!!!! 7:00 TO GO!!!!!!!!!

ODen has 4 fouls as Xavier goes to the line. 55-48 with 5 to go.

Still plenty of time for OSU.

59-50 with about 3:00 to go.

Gotta get Oden back out there!

1:36 to play with 9 Xavier up 59-57. This game will go right down to the wire.

Oden fouls out! And Ohio misses the 3!

GAME OVER!!!!!!! XAVIER HAS UPSET THE OHIO ST. UNIVERSITY!!!!!!!!! A missed series of shots by OSU and a foul can put Xavier up 62 or 63-59 with 9.3 seconds!!!

Horrible non-call under the basket after the off. rebound.

First Free thorw GOOD

WE ARE TIED AT 62 AT THE END OF REGULATION!!!!!! WE ARE HEADED TO OT!!!!!!!

OVERTIME!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!!

OH MY GOD OH MAN SERIOUSLY, DAMN!

WOWWWWWWWWWWWWW

I still haven't seen the brackets, the VERY only news I heard until this point was Coach Kryzlnfgbsjdhg;sjdfglkadfjbglkadbfgzxski's press conference (even that was by accident).

I might not ever look at a bracket again!

Now OSU goes down!!! Here I am missing it for Thomas and Friends

this is seriously not happening this is duke kentucky 91 all over again

Xavier ip 64-62 early, and OSU responds with a three. 65-64 OSu with 4 to go

OSU up 67-64. Come on Xavier

HOW DID THEY MISS THE FLAGRANT FOUL

Fastbreak puts OSU up 69-64. Xavier calls timeout. Everyone reading, respond with you pick for this game, as of now

Damn, 72-64 OSU. Xavier goes to the line. I WANT MY UPSET!!!!!!!!

64-75 OSU

Well, thanks for showing up Xavier

72-67 OSU. Xavier brought it within 5. OSU takes timeout

OSU wins wihtout ODen. 76-67 with 20 seconds to go. I thought we had an upset, but unfortunately it was just a mirage

P-I-T-T Lets Go Pitt!!!

Damn you CBS!!!!!!!! I want USC/Texas, not KU/Kansas

At the half, 34-27 USC. Durant with only 4 points. If texas wants to win that game, Durant will have to put up AT LEAST 25, if not more

Texas down 50-33. What the FUck is happening to them?

texas still down, 53-37. I don't get it, I thought USC supposed to be a pushover and eliminated in the last round.