Four more favorites won tonight in the late games in the NCAA tournament. This has been the biggest dud of a first round in memory.
Southern Illinois held their seed, and defeated Holy Cross. I picked the Crusaders, but that was not to be. The Salukis move on to take on Virginia Tech.
Tubby Smith has a job for at least two more days, as the Kentucky Wildcats knocked off the Villanova Wildcats. UK takes on KU in the next round. That would be top-seeded Kansas.
Jackson State was competitive with Florida for a half. The Gators stepped it up in the second half, and scored 112 on JSU. This is the Gators' tournament to lose.
In Spokane, USC is putting the finishing touches on a win over Arkansas. It's interesting that the last two teams in the field, Stanford and Arkansas, did not represent well at all.
Only two teams with lower than a #9 seed advanced to the second round: VCU and Winthrop.
The 6 BCS conferences combined for 25 of the last 32 teams:
ACC: North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Maryland, Boston College
Big Ten: Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Indiana, Purdue
Pac-10: UCLA, USC, Arizona, Oregon, Washington State
SEC: Florida, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Kentucky (all from the same division)
Big East: Georgetown, Pittsburgh, Louisville
Big XII: Kansas, Texas, Texas A&M
The other seven teams are: Winthrop (Big South), VCU (CAA), Xavier (Atlantic 10), UNLV (Mountain West), Nevada (WAC), Southern Illinois (MVC), and Butler (Horizon).
The state of Nevada qualified 100% of its Division I teams for this tournament. That's 2 teams: Nevada and UNLV. Both are still alive.
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