The Cavaliers came out strong in the second half and ran away from 16 seed Gardner-Webb.  History did not repeat itself – Virginia has survived the first round.  It should be interesting to see if this lifts all the weight of the tournament off the Cavaliers and allow them to play like the dominating team that they are during the regular season – or if they will continue to come out tight.

Tennessee also managed to finally slow down Colgate – who played the entire second half without their star player who lost his contact and had no replacement.  Admiral Schofield nailed two big three-pointers to help lead the Volunteers to victory.  And Buffalo scored 91 points and ran away from Arizona State, ending the streak of at least one First Four team winning their next game.

That being said, it doesn’t look like the upsets are done for the day.  Pac 12 Tournament Champion Oregon has a 12 point lead on 5 seed Wisconsin with only about 4 minutes to play.  If the Ducks can hang onto their lead, we will be guaranteed to see a double digit seed play in the Sweet 16 – as they will face 13 seed UC-Irvine.

And we still have 8 more games to go!!!!!!