Sooo, after months of waiting, days of bracketololgy, it finally came. March Madness, one of the best times of the year. Now, people are probably wondering why i didn’t come out with a March Madness preview piece. Let’s be serious though, previewing or predicting the March Madness tournament is one of the hardest things to do. However, I will break down the first day and recap the best moments.
First up, Big shout out to the Boys from Ann Arbor , who haven’t been in the tournament for 11 years and still came up with an upset win against 7th ranked Clemson. Michigan seemed to run away with the game earlier, but Clemson didn’t go down without a fight and made it close, but not close enough. The Wolverines came away with a 3 point victory.
Congrats to VCU for coming 2 seconds away from another Eric Maynor Miracle. What a game that was. UCLA kept wanting to pull away but VCU kept hanging around, until finally it came down to Eric Maynor and the last shot of the game, unfortunately it wasn’t meant to be this year and UCLA squeezed by with a victory.
Memphis survived a scare from Cal St Northridge, if it wasn’t for Roburt Sallie the Tigers would have got bounced from the first round and we all know that most peoples brackets depend on Memphis going deep. Even Villanova had trouble with there first round match up on there home court no less, which is a blunder from the selection committee. Other than that all the top seeds advanced in convincing fashion. Yes even Duke did...no seriously they did.
What was with the brutal refing in the Western Kentucky game? The refs almost gave the game away to Illinois with a brutal call late in the game. With 32.6 seconds left Western Kentucky has to inbound the ball and as the player is doing so it bounces of the hand of the Illinois defender and bounces off the ground out of bounds and an Illinois player picks it up while standing out of bounds. The guys in stripes even looked back at the replays and still gave the ball to the Fighting Illini. Thank god Western Kentucky held on for the win and more importantly the win for my perfect round 1 bracket.
Blake Griffin was throwing over a Morgan State players’ back near the end of a blow out win. Watch to see how many times that will happen as 2 players this year have already been suspended for taking cheap shots at the National Player of the Year.
Well that’s day one in a nutshell, be sure to stay tuned for the daily updates from yours truly.
Nelson "Demon Seed" Swan
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