2014 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, Rounds 1 and 2: vidstudent

vidstudent

2014 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, Rounds 1 and 2

Mar 23, 2014 14:47

I'm late to posting this year due to flying out to see some of this tourney in person, along with my uncles. So, let's start by getting the well-annihilated bracket posted to look at - currently running 45.8% and losing a Final Four and an Elite 8 team in the first round. (Villanova at least waited until game 2.)

Breakdown of conference records:

B1G: 3-3, including the play-in game. Also including newspaper headlines titled, "THE University of DAYTON." ;_; OSU cannot shoot basketballs into buckets. ASDFGHJIGFRTBYUBVDDKL
Big East: 2-2, including the play-in game, which I got to watch because a friend of mine is a Xavier fan and wanted to go. It should be noted that, in addition to the red Wolfpack fans in the crowd, there were a decent number of Dayton Flyers fans, who, according to the friend and the arena's mix of cheers and boos for everything Xavier, are rather happy for the former A-10 school's demise.
ACC: 5-2, including the play-in game. More might be said of this good first-round record, except one of those two was Duke. The Atlantic Sun is now the CAA - first-round upset pick material.
AAC: 3-1 - a solid performance for their first time without the basketball-only schools. They, oddly enough, are the seeding and bid arguments this year instead of mid-major schools. (Or, perhaps, they count as a mid-major now.)
SEC: 4-0, including the play-in game. One might believe they are miffed about their third and final bid being a play-in, or their seeding being #1, #8, and #11.5.
PAC-12: 4-2. No real surprises. Okay, maybe Stanford.
Big XII: 4-3, with NDSU over Oklahoma in the "really easy to predict 12-5 upset" category.
Mountain West: 1-1 - sorry, New Mexico.
Atlantic 10: 2-4, and they had hoped to do better; Ohio State fans had hoped they would do worse, because that billboard on I-70 is going to be painful to look at going to the First Four next year.