Posted on 03/20/2014 7:28:47 PM PDT by Lmo56
Upset special.
I just about fell out of my chair from shock when I saw he picked North Dakota St.
He lost on Dayton - first game of the day ...
I had ND State. I remember earlier this season ND State was talked about as a team that might surprise people in the tournament. We’ll see what happens versus San Diego State.
That blew a lot of brackets.
Aren’t those all #12 seeds over #5 seeds? That upset is quite common.
Shoot, forgot to get that dart board to pick my bracket. How could I miss such an opportunity?
In the 1980's, I used to pick 60+ games regularly in the office pool.
Now, its 35-45.
Parity has come to NCAA basketball ...
My two losses on the day are OU and St. Joes, both of whom lost in overtime.
Too bad. A cool billion would have been nice.
Way To Go Bison!
And no, I didn’t pick it right either.
If Manhattan can manage to topple Louisville then brackets will be shredded.
And the second 16 games are yet to come tomorrow ...
Yea, and that’s just tomorrow.
Was it Yogi Berra who said something like “ predicting stuff is hard, especially when it’s in the future”.
Sports Ill. mag bracket had NDSU picked, I wonder if some on ESPN also had that win pegged.
NDSU plays defense, and is physical—foreign concepts in this day and age of shoot the 3 or throw it down from 3 inches.
Manhattan hangin’ tough with Louisville ... 54-55 ...
A number of people did pick Dayton, after all, that is a bit of an Inter-State Rivalry and Ohio has some fairly good roundball with Ohio State, Cincy of course and I remember watching the Cleveland State Vikings in one NCAA tourney.
At the end of the game in regulation time at least, the NDSU guy got the knock on the head from the guy’s shoe or knee, that was pretty serious and the play was dead. I guess not enough to rule anything more than incidental contact. Was pretty ugly looking though and one had to wonder as NDSU just got a crucial score.
St. Louis really pulled their game out of the fire, they were trailing the whole game and mostly by about 10 points it seems, didn’t think they’d overcome.
Manhattan beat my then 5 seed Gators in March Madness some years back in a classic 12 upsets 5 match up.
Darnnit to heck anyway.
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