This will be bumped as necessary, so there may or may not be newer posts below. I’m getting this started at 1:50 pm 3/20/2008.
1:50 pm – So far, not too much damage. Kansas simply crushed Portland State; not unexpected so no real commentary there.
Xavier came back to beat a very game Georgia; that final doesn’t reflect just how in control the Bulldogs were most of the game.
Unfortunately, there was some damage. Michigan State survived an ice-cold Neitzel to knock off Temple to take out one of my 12-5 upset specials. At least I wasn’t stupid enough to have Temple surviving the weekend.
6:12 pm – Unlike previous years, I didn’t wait until Day 2 to have my bracket become number 2. I lost my Cinderella (badly), and none of my other upset specials (Kentucky, Baylor) survived. At least Pittsburgh didn’t disappoint.
8:38 pm – About the only good thing is I don’t have to extend the Suicide Watch to North Carolina and the patriarch Ham (it’s already been issued for MK). There’s also the fact I’ve yet to lose an Elite Eight team, though I’m already missing a Sweet 16. That was very close to an 0-3 early-evening performance, as Belmont gave Duke all they could handle, the Aggies gig BYU, and K-State gives us the first actual upset of the tourney.
11:13 pm – Who said it was a down year for the Big Ten, and why did I listen to them? The Badgers and Purdue make the Big Ten 3-0 in the tourney so far, and I missed two of those. The Boilermakers were the last game I missed tonight, as UCLA almost tripled up on poor Mississippi Valley State, my first 7-10 split came in with West Virginia, and the Golden Domers take out last year’s Cindy.
10-6 on Day 1, one of my Sweet 16 teams toastified. Not my usual Day One performance, but considering my 2008 performance to date, not too bad.
