Mar 18 2010

March Madness- Round of 64 Part I

As I said before- do you see ‘meta’ in this?

Well, there’s a reason they call this March Madness.

It’s been insanely complicated to even set up this table which is organized by viewing time for your convenience.  Over 20 hours it took me, I hope you appreciate it.

There is only one channel, CBS, which means they are going to jump around from game to game in a random manner dictated by the Sports Director (thus the name).  I’m not even going to attempt to live blog it except for the random comment or 60.

Slackers.

I’ll attempt to update the results as they come in, and the second half of the round of 64 comes tomorrow.  This weekend is the round of 32 and it’s going to take me just as much time to prepare and I’m not going to be around Saturday night (hopefully) because I’m going to be visiting a dog that bites my shoes and talking about Science Fiction.

After that I may have more interest if any of my favorite teams (Syracuse and Michigan State) emerge un-upset though I’m not predicting anything except early exits for either of them.  I’ll keep rooting for The Big East (the best conference in Basketball!) until they all lose (which is sure to come).

Kansas v. Duke in the final.  Kansas wins.  Yawn.

Or you could go with Armando’s brackets.

Thursday 3/18/10

Time Region Seed Team Record v. Seed Team Record
12:20 West 7 BYU 29 – 5 10 Florida 21 – 12
12:25 South 6 Notre Dame 23 – 11 11 Old Dominion 26 – 8
12:30 South 2 Villanova 24 – 7 15 Robert Morris 23 – 11
2:30 West 4 Vanderbilt 24 – 8 13 Murray St. 30 – 4
2:40 West 2 Kansas St. 26 – 7 15 North Texas 24 – 8
2:45 South 3 Baylor 25 – 7 14 Sam Houston St. 25 – 7
2:50 South 7 Richmond 26 – 8 10 St. Mary’s (CA) 26 – 5
4:45 West 5 Butler 28 – 4 12 UTEP 26 – 6
7:10 Midwest 8 UNLV 25 – 8 9 UNI 28 – 4
7:15 East 1 Kentucky 32 – 2 16 East Tennessee St. 20 – 14
7:20 East 6 Marquette 22 – 11 11 Washington 24 – 9
7:25 Midwest 3 Georgetown 23 – 10 14 Ohio 21 – 14
9:35 East 8 Texas 24 – 9 9 Wake Forest 19 – 10
9:30 Midwest 1 Kansas 32 – 2 16 Lehigh 22 – 10
9:45 Midwest 6 Tennessee 25 – 8 11 San Diego St. 25 – 8
9:40 East 3 New Mexico 29 – 4 14 Montana 22 – 9

TheMomCat has graciously agreed to take over Afternoon Edition today and tomorrow.  We will see what the weekend brings.

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  1. The ‘meta’ is in how I thwart the ‘Recommend’ button.

    See you at noon or when I wake up

    • on March 18, 2010 at 14:09
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    I’ve known about this team for sometime in fact I’m wearing the teams sweatshirt. The Gonzaga Bull Dogs  

  3. A 10 seed defeating a 7 is usually not too surprising. Ilooked at BYU’s schedule this year and they didn’t play any strong teams out of conference.

    The SEC where Florida is from has great athletes and I think the Florida Gators are used to playing tougher comp than BYU.

  4. ‘nova survives Notre Dame.

  5. is coming off a 14 – 3 run.

  6. 16+ to go in the second half.

    3 pointers, they’re only shooting 32%

  7. Murray State in White.

  8. Richmond in White.

  9. UTEP 2 – 1 (from the web).

    • TMC on March 18, 2010 at 23:02
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    you didn’t use Armando’s bracket to bet anything. So far he’s only 2 for 6.

  11. Butler UTEP in progress 24 – 26 UTEP.

    • BYU over Florida 99 – 92 not an upset.
    • Old Dominion over Notre Dame 51 – 50 a squeaker and an upset (11 over 6).
    • Villanova over Robert Morris 73 – 70 a squeaker, ‘nova should have won handily (2 over 15).
    • Murray St. over Vanderbilt 66 – 65 a squeaker and a HUGE upset (13 over 4).
    • Kansas St. over N. Texas 82 – 62 a blowout.
    • Baylor over Sam Houston 68 -59 close for a while.
    • St. Mary’s over Richmond 80 – 71 a technical upset (10 over 7).

    UTEP now leading Butler 33 – 27.

  12. UNLV in White.

    UNLV 4 – 0.

  13. Not sure if that’s a final, but it looks out of reach in any event.

  14. 16 to play.

    For the uninitiate I might mention the halfs are 20 minutes each.

    And the reason I like Georgetown is that they have a monster 7’+ Center.

    Shades of Ewing.

  15. …in second half.

  16. with 6 to play.

  17. Kansas in White.

    2:00 remaning in the first.

  18. 9 minutes to play.

  20. 62 – 59

  21. 57- 54

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