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03-18-17 12:49 PM - Post#227547
In response to Old Bear
I'm following the tournament with great interest. No upsets of the 1-4 seeds in the round of 64, which hasn't happened since 2007. Only one five seed, Minnesota, downed by MTSU in what was anything but a surprise. The Blue Raiders are a very good basketball team and Minnesota was absurdly overseeded. We have had three of the six seeds go down to the 11s, but only one of those was a big gambler's upset, 7.5-point underdog USC coming back from a double-digit deficit for the 13th time this season to beat sleeper darling SMU. I loved that, partly because SMU just came off an academic scandal that had them suspended from last year's tournament, but partly because Andy Enfield is the chillest coach around and does a great job.
It's also been fun to watch angry Gregg Marshall of horribly underseeded Wichita State zing the committee at every turn while grinding past Dayton and prepping for his ridiculously difficult second-round game against Kentucky.
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