No. 16 Cal Poly (-4) vs. No. 16 Texas Southern - 6:40 p.m. ET, truTV

Cal Poly is a 4 point fave despite being 13-19 this year, which is absolutely hilarious. I know zilch about either team, but will probably be ****ty, low efficiency basketball, especially from Texas who loves dem midranges. KPom has Cal Poly as a 3 point favorite out of the BIG WEST. Texas Southern plays in the worst conference in the country and basically had to beat 300+ kpom teams to get here. Cal Poly beat 84th KPom UC Irvine, so they are probably significantly better. Some hilarity: last game of the season for Poly was a 71-55 loss to Santa Barbara. First game of the tourney against the same team? 69-38 win.


No. 11 Iowa (-2) vs. No. 11 Tennessee - 9:10 p.m. ET, truTV
The matchup of the KenPom loved, low win teams. Iowa is playing like ****, which is reflected in the rankings. Tennessee's best win is an absolute demolishing of a late dominant Virginia team. This will probably be the best Dayton game oat. Not sure why Iowa is favored by Vegas given how absolutely terrible their last 8 or so games have gone. KPom has Tennessee as a 2 point favorite.

Another added dimension with Iowa's head coach. His son apparently just has surgery to get a tumor removed but I guess the coach is flying to the game right now so Iowa has the "motivation" now. I still like Tennessee tho.

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Pretty amazing how far Mike Davis has fallen in a decade.

From head coach in the National Title game to head coach for Texas Southern...

Texas Southern seems to have pretty efficient shot selection so far...

I'm starting to think I might not win my first half under 59.5 bet.

I took the under in this game just to give me a reason to watch and it's not even gonna get me to halftime

Love Iowa in the late game though

And yea, it's real sad to see how far Mike Davis has fallen

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I predict that my hatred of that hopper commercial will grow exponentially in the coming weeks

this thyroid tumor situation made me stay away from betting.

hopefully we get a good game

i like TENN in this one

Has anyone from Tennessee ever shot a basketball before?

Iowa the truth y'all...been tryin to tell ya

Iowa looks like a different team. Early season form. I've watched every game this year. They are looser than they have been for the past month

jodie meeks hit like 10 threes in tennessee i think

leggo iowa

Iowa > Tenn, Iowa > UMass

I opened this thread and this is the first post I read, 2 seconds later that airball was shot lmao truth

Iowa starters with 8 points. Marble with 0.

****ing hell call some more ****ing fouls

McCaffrey ****s with the line ups again. Last 5 minutes of the half was a mirror of Iowa's last month

Very subtle jabs at the refs there.

Pretty sure so far in all the games, the team that has won was up 10+ in the first 10mins(if not way earlier), pretty sure Iowa meets the requirement.

Call it, lets start the actual tournament now.

jarnell lookin beastly