After a record setting 13 upsets in the first round, Saturday saw the top teams from the major conferences fight back.  Only two underdog by seeds were able to break the ranks of teams like Kansas, UNC, Virginia, Miami FL, Duke, Iowa St.   And it is hard for me to call Indiana – the Big 10 regular season champion a true underdog (they just should not have been playing Kentucky).  So, that really leaves just Gonzaga as a Cinderella story (and even that feels a little bit off with all the success Gonzaga has had over the years).

But 6 more double digit seeds (Syracuse, Middle Tennessee St, Stephen F Austin, VCU, Northern Iowa and Hawaii) will try to make their Cinderella run to the Sweet 16 today.  And one of them at least is guaranteed a trip as Syracuse and Middle Tennessee St play each other.    So should be another fun day of basketball.

Well, hopefully better than watching what Villanova is doing to Iowa right now…… No rooting interest – just not fun to watch a team getting blown out of the gym.   I feel a little bad for the Iowa Hawkeyes – this was a team that had made their way into the top 5 of the polls and have seemed to self destruct at the end of the season losing 5 of 6 going into the tournament before an overtime victory against Temple set up this unfortunate meeting with the Wildcats.  And I can’t put my finger on what happened to cause it.