Mar 20 2009
NCAA Day 1
Mostly an upset free day. Even the so called underdog winners, Western Kentucky, seemed to have quite a bit of support from “experts” leading up to the game. I was going to pick them, but I had already decided on Mississippi State and VCU. Which of course meant, I lost those two. No worries, I didn’t pick them to go any further than one round. By the way, although I think I’ve never won a tournament, I still believe the number one rule is to avoid picking one of these low seeds to go far. Yes, every year some team from the middle of nowhere takes down a few giants and goes on a run (Davidson, George Mason etc). But do you really have any solid reason for picking any of them going into the tournament? It is often too random, and depends much on the team they are playing.
Will there be any upsets today? I doubt it amongst the top 3 in each bracket, but watch out for Cleveland State. They’ve played several tournament teams (Butler, at Syracuse, at West Virginia and at Washington). Beating Syracuse and Butler (twice). So I highly doubt they will be intimidated by Wake Forest on a neutral court.
Little sad there was no mention of the Terps here.
Fair enough, but I pretty much didn’t think of them as a true underdog.