This is the last of the heavy lifting. Tomorrow starts the two days second round of games for the women which will cull the teams down to the the Sweet 16. Here are the a scores for this afternoon’s games Seed School Record Score Seed School Record Score Region 10 N. Carolina 13 – 10 …
Tag: NCAA basketball tournament
Mar 22 2021
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Regional Quarterfinals- Day 2, Afternoon
Definitely some upsets yesterday. First up, #8 Loyola Chicago trounced #1 Illinois. #11 Syracuse eked (no pun intended) a win past #3 West Virginia. Much to Amondo’s disappointment his #7 Florida (Gators) went down to #15 Oral Roberts. In the final game of the night, #12 Oregon St. literally sent #4 Oklahoma St. walking home. …
Mar 22 2021
NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Round of 64- Day 2, Afternoon
In 2019, ek hornbeck wrote: “Ok, I’ll bite. WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU THINKING GIVING NOTRE DAME AT 30 – 3 A #1 SEED AND SNOOTING UCONN AT 31 – 2?! Bless your hearts (which you’ll recall refers to someone with an Oedipal Conflict in Dixie)!” This year Notre Dame is not playing, neither the …
Mar 21 2021
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Regional Quarterfinals- Day 1, Evening
Four more games. Evening Games Time Network Seed School Record Seed School Record Region 7:10 TBS 10 Rutgers 15 – 11 2 Houston* 24 – 3 Midwest 7:45 TruTV 15 Oral Roberts* 16 – 10 7 Florida 14 – 9 South 8:45 TNT 13 N. Texas 17 – 9 5 Villanova* 16 – 6 …
Mar 21 2021
NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Round of 64 Day 1- Evening
In 2019, ek hornbeck wrote: “If you’re reading this it’s because I’m still napping. It is the debut of the Lady Huskies in this year’s Tournament and I’d look up the fight song but I’m also lazy.” He found it later after a nap. Yup, this is mind bending. Fortunately, ek left me the map, …
Mar 21 2021
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Regional Quarterfinals- Day 1, Afternoon
Last year ek hornbeck created a “New and Improved with Special (and a subtly different pain in the ass) Table for Results. So this is the one I’ll be using today and for future games. The winners will be bolded and the upset winners will be on the right, the lower seeds are always on …
Mar 21 2021
NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Round of 64 Day 1- Afternoon
In 2019 ek hornbeck wrote this: I assure you I have something incredibly trenchant and profound to say about the state of Women’s Basketball, but I’m already at least 40 hours into this project out of the last 72 or so and I’m afraid my brain is totally fried. Fortunately most of the heavy …
Mar 20 2021
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Round of 64 Day 2 – Evening
The UConn men are up tonight along with my very favorite team, Gonzaga. Yes, I know I’m an East coast gal who graduated from some highly rated East coast universities, NYU being one of them, and Gonzaga is a Jesuit run institution named after Jesuit saint Aloysius Gonzaga and I’m not Catholic, not even close. …
Mar 20 2021
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Round of 64 Day 2 – Afternoon
By the end of the day half the teams that started on Thursday will be headed home, half will be moving on to the next round. There were a few upsets as teams seeded higher beat the expected winner: ek hornbeck would have been happy, #11 Syracuse literally wiped the court with #6 San Diego …
Mar 19 2021
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Round of 64 Day 1 – Evening
Tonight’s games include one of ek hornbeck‘s favorite teams, Syracuse, since he went to college there. It’s kind of one of mine, too, because I was born there. My family left when I was an infant and I’ve only been back when I drove through on my way to Canada. Time Network Seed School …
Mar 19 2021
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2019: Round of 64 Day 1 – Afternoon
Last night the Play-ins for the East and West Divisions that will start tomorrow finished with a couple of tight games and one that went to OT. West #16 Norfolk State (16 – 7) 54 – Appalachian State (17 – 12) 53 #11 Witchita State (16 – 5} 52 – #11 Drake ((25 – 4) …
Mar 18 2021
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Play Ins Day 1
It’s been two years since the NCAA held its Basketball Tournament and ek hornbeck is no longer with us to work his html magic for posts to keep up with all the games, men’s and women’s. It is now left to me and I hate html, plus I still have a full time job. The …