As exhilarating as Thursday's tournament games were, Friday's games could only be described as gnitaralihxe. As in, the opposite. In fact, the only upset of the entire day happened in the very last game, as 11-seeded Dayton played their second straight tournament game in their home state of Ohio and used that home advantage to climb past Providence in a 13 point yawner that finished after 1 am.
Not surprisingly, almost no upsets meant almost none of our contestants weeping, wailing, or even gnashing their teeth. Nobody lost a Champion or Final Four team today, and only Booth (Belmont) and A Cristinzio (Oklahoma State) lost an Elite Eight team.
There wasn't really even much wildcard action. People who picked Michigan State (17) and San Diego State (13) presumably smiled a little bit. The few who went out on a limb for Iowa (Burch, Marshall) or Oregon (Haklar) probably feel better than the equally few who dipped their toe in the water for Davidson (L Schlegel) or Georgia (L Leach, B Whiteside). Providence supporters (N Donadio, D Kornfeld, Kovolski, Mash Leach, K Sullivan, C Whiteside) probably wish the day was just a teensy bit more boring, although we imagine those who like Dayton (T Joseph, T Joseph 2, MIllan) disagree.
But besides that, blah. Hopefully the weekend will be more like yesterday than today.
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Some of us who picked SD St as their wildcard are now pulling against them. Go Duke!
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