Day one over, March 17, 2011
- 32 teams, 16 games, perhaps the best afternoon ever of the NCAA tournament, and a 12 and 13 seed to play each other on Saturday. Today was a good day one for the 2011 tournament.
- Continuing mystery of the day--did Leslie Visser look in a mirror at any point today?
- Utah State won 30 games but not one of those wins was over a team in the NCAA Tournament.
- Didn't tonight's Missouri loss look familiar? The Tigers were outrebounded 35-27 and any time Cincinnati got the ball inside, they seemed to score. Cincy forward Yancy Gates went for 18 points and 11 boards. Missouri finishes 23-11 but ended the season with five losses in six games.
- Michigan State and UCLA created some late game drama but, overall, the play of these two traditional powers was pretty ugly. Michigan State moved off of the bubble late in the season but, let's face it, they did not deserve an invitation over teams like Colorado, Missouri State and several others.
- Overall, it was nice to have four networks showing each game in its entirety. While frustrating to switch and find another commercial on another game broadcast, I'll gladly take this programming approach versus the prior CBS switching from one game to the other. Can you imagine following this afternoon's dramatic games only on CBS versus having the freedom to switch back and forth?
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