After a record setting 13 upsets in the first round, Saturday saw the top teams from the major conferences fight back.\u00a0 Only\u00a0two underdog by seeds\u00a0were\u00a0able to break the ranks of teams like Kansas, UNC, Virginia, Miami FL, Duke, Iowa St.\u00a0\u00a0 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).\u00a0 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).<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 And one of them at least is guaranteed a trip as Syracuse and Middle Tennessee St play each other.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So should be another fun day of basketball.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 And I can’t put my finger on what happened to cause it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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