Day one of the 2010 NCAA Tournament is now in the books and what a day it was. Nine games came down to the end, including three overtime games, one double overtime, two buzzer-beaters, two missed buzzer-beaters and two other game winning shots with under five seconds left. I am out of breath just typing all of that.
The biggest story of the day was the failure of the Big East. Georgetown lost as heavy favorites to Ohio, Notre Dame lost as favorites to Old Dominion, and Marquette lost what I thought was the best game of the day to Washington, blowing a 13-point second half lead in the process. The Big East’s only win came from Villanova, an overtime win over mighty Robert Morris, and they may have looked the worst out of all four Big East teams yesterday. It will be up to West Virginia, Pitt, Syracuse and Louisville to right the ship today for the Big East.
Heroes of the day included Quincy Poindexter of Washington, who made a brilliant one-on-one move to hit the game winning shot against Marquette, Danero Thomas of Murray State, who hit the first buzzer beater of the tournament from about 18 feet to upset Vanderbilt, Jimmer Fredette of BYU, who scored 37 in leading his team to double overtime victory over Florida, and the late night hero Ish Smith of Wake Forest, who’s buzzer beater in overtime sent Texas packing.
If day two brings half as much excitement as day one, it will be another great day of basketball. There will be no live blogging today as I will be out and about catching all of the action with friends. I will be back tomorrow to give my recap and thoughts on the complete first round of the 2010 NCAA Tournament.
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