Tag: Bracket Busters

  • NCAA Tournament: Elite Eight Scores, Day 1 (Florida State vs Michigan, Loyola vs Kansas)

    NCAA Tournament: Elite Eight Scores, Day 1 (Florida State vs Michigan, Loyola vs Kansas)

    The first half of the Final Four is set, as Michigan and Loyola-Chicago planted their flag in the sport’s most prestigious weekend, dispatching of Florida State and Kansas State in the Elite Eight.

  • NCAA Tournament: Sweet Sixteen Scores, Day 2

    NCAA Tournament: Sweet Sixteen Scores, Day 2

    The second day of Sweet Sixteen action brought us very little surprises in the top-heavy side of the bracket. Villanova, Kansas and Duke all advanced to the Elite Eight as expected, while Texas Tech made history with their first ever Sweet 16 win.

  • NCAA Tournament: Sweet Sixteen Scores, Day 1

    NCAA Tournament: Sweet Sixteen Scores, Day 1

    The Sweet Sixteen kicked off and carried on with the surprising occurences of the first weekend: Loyola-Chicago continues to stun everyone with close, dramatic wins, joined by Michigan, Florida State and Kansas State making it to the Elite Eight.

  • NCAA Tournament: Round of 32 Scores, Day 2

    NCAA Tournament: Round of 32 Scores, Day 2

    A bad day for brackets and for higher seeds, as a number 1 (Xavier) and two number 2’s (Cincinnati and North Carolina) lost, while Syracuse (number 11), Kansas State (number 9) and Florida State (number 9 too) made an impressive case for lower seeds heading into the Sweet Sixteen.

  • NCAA Tournament: Round of 32 Scores, Day 1

    NCAA Tournament: Round of 32 Scores, Day 1

    The first day in the NCAA Tournament’s Round of 32 was filled with blowouts, but also some nail-biting drama, mostly coming in the form of clutch shots – One that propelled Michigan over Houston, and the other sending Cinderella Loyola-Chicago over Tennessee into the Sweet Sixteen. #9 Alabama 58  #1 Villanova 81: A dominant performance by the […]

  • NCAA Tournament: First Round Scores, Day 2

    NCAA Tournament: First Round Scores, Day 2

    In a day filled with lower seed wins, none ring as louder as UMBC stunning Virginia, the first ever win by a #16 seed against a #1 seed, in what probably is the biggest upset in college basketball history, and in all of North American sports over the years; certainly in postseason play. #16 UMBC […]

  • NCAA Tournament: First Round Scores, Day 1

    NCAA Tournament: First Round Scores, Day 1

    The first day of the 2018 NCAA Tournament included easy wins for favorites like Villanova, Duke and Kansas, while plenty of brackets got busted thanks to Buffalo beating Arizona and Loyola-Chicago stunning Miami.

  • NCAA Tournament Upsets & Scores on Day 2 of the First Round

    NCAA Tournament Upsets & Scores on Day 2 of the First Round

    The second day of the 2016 NCAA Tournament as the day of upsets and drama. From Middle Tennessee sending Michigan State home, to Northern Iowa beating Texas on a half-court buzzer beater, Iowa using a putback to beat Temple with time running out and Stephen F. Austin using the chaos of playing West Virginia to their advantage in another major surprise.

  • NCAA Tournament Day 1 Games Scores & Bracket

    NCAA Tournament Day 1 Games Scores & Bracket

    The first day of the 2016 NCAA Tournament had seven lower seeded teams winning their first round games, with the standouts beating Wichita State stifling Arizona, Gonzaga cruising against Seton Hall, Arkansas Little-Rock sizzling against Purdue and the biggest one of all was Yale over Baylor. As for things going a bit more as expected, […]

  • NCAA Tournament – Big 12 Collapses, Upsets Everywhere & Favorites Advance

    NCAA Tournament – Big 12 Collapses, Upsets Everywhere & Favorites Advance

    How to describe the first day of the 2015 NCAA Tournament? All five Texas teams are out, three Big 12 teams lost, two #14 seeds (Georgia State and UAB) advanced while the favorites to reach the Final Four like Kentucky and Villanova, unlike other high ranked programs, didn’t run into too much trouble.