The harder they fall tho.

2008 was really bad outside of a few games in the West region. Only three first-round games had margins of victory of fewer than five points and 22 out of 32 first-round games had double-digit margins.

The East region that year might be the worst region ever. The average margin of victory in that region (all games, not just first-round) was 20 points.

Doesn't no upsets mean elite seeding?

Have to disagree with this analysis. The TM "TradeMark" of March Madness is 1st round carnage. David over Goliath. Buzzer beaters. We had zero of that this Thur and Fri.

Who gives a ****. All the elite teams winning makes sat/sun way better.

Tough crowd

Disagree. There are 32 basketball games, of course there are gonna be plenty of good games.

But, there were slightly fewer good games than normal, and on top of that nothing that made me get out of my chair and yell and run around the room, which is the whole point of this thing. No epic upsets, no buzzer beaters.

It's march MADNESS, not march appreciate good basketball. That's what the NBA is for. The purpose of this tournament is to see a bunch of kids from middle of bum**** nowhere, for one moment in their athletic careers, reach the pantheon of greatness where they can be remembered forever just for winning one or two games.

Think about it - in every other sport, you have to be the best or the champion to be remembered forever. And MM has those too - Nova last year, NC State winning and Jim Valvano running around like a madman, Laettner, Warrick, Tyus Edney, etc.... but MM also has heroes like Bryce Drew, GOAT COAST, Steph Curry and the Red Lobster from Davidson, Hampton's coach getting carried off the court, Georgia State's coach falling off his stool when his son hit the game winning dagger, that dude from Northern Iowa ****ing stabbing Kansas in the heart with that three... and so, so many more

Nowhere else can you be immortal just for pulling an upset and not even come close to a title, and that's awesome.

This first round was definitely really, really lacking in Madness. We've still got a few good stories (Northwestern, Wichita/Kentucky, SMC) and lots of potential for crazy games and incredible battles, but a lot of what makes this thing great was missing over the last two days. Today looks like it will be awesome in a different way, and by the way LET'S GO ****ING MOUNTAINEERS

ALI FARROKHANMESH

dude's name hit me as soon as I stepped away

man that was epic

We got the 2008 payoff with the epic title game and 4 #1s in the FF. Typically when you get less upsets it leads for much better round of 32, S16, E8 games albeit with less big underdogs to root for.

Him beating Kansas was the second round though...

And Kansas, unc, and Kentucky are gonna get styled on this weekend which will be great

Steph Curry's run was what made it great. I don't even remember who they beat in the first round but it was a 7/10 matchup iirc (before beating a 2 and 3 seed then taking eventual champs Kansas to the wire) so it wasn't a crazy upset.

GOAT COAST was goat bc of their style, players, location of their college literally on a beach, and likeabiliyy but the second win and the fact that we got to enjoy it for a week while waiting on them to take on Florida significantly added to the value of them beating lol georgetown (which was great but only part of the story).

Lul silly Duke fans.

**** that guy.

And his big, dumb white lackey.

ND taking a nap.

ND has no chance, WVU has about 10 uncalled fouls so far. It's hilarious.

ND making a run back.

Hopefully VJ Cuckam stays on the bench. Guy stinks.

A good press is so fun to watch but lol ND

Anyone other than Vasturia or Farrell gets the in bound and bad things are going to happen

ND is executing so much better in the half court, just stop the damn turnovers and they're back in this

Just a little reach around

Huggins in disbelief a foul is called after 15 uncalled muggings.

gibbs cant play in this game

He literally can't even dribble.

like i said y'day, dook is ghana have their hands full (of cock) this weekend. 85% of that arena is going to be loud and rooting for USCe. and we all know how well dook does playing road games.

Neither can Pfluger. Unfortunately they don't have anyone else