Saturday, April 3, 2010

NCAA tournament 

March 20

Records by conferences (sorted by winning percentage) through Duke over Butler
Horizon 5-1 (83.3%)

ACC 10-5 (66.7%)
Ivy 2-1 (66.7%)
MVC 2-1 (66.7%)

Big Ten 9-5 (64.3%)

Pac 10 3-2 (60%)
WCC 3-2 (60%) 

Big 12 9-7 (56.25%)

SEC 5-4 (55.5%)


Big East 8-8 (50%)
CAA 1-1 (50%)
MAC 1-1 (50%)
Ohio Valley 1-1 (50%)
SWAC 1-1 (50%)

A 10 2-3 (40%)
MWC 2-3 (40%) 

America East 0-1 (0%)
Atlantic Sun 0-1 (0%)
Big Sky 0-1 (0%)
Big South 0-1 (0%)
Big West 0-1 (0%)
Conference USA 0-2 (0%)
MAAC 0-1 (0%)
MEAC 0-1 (0%)
Northeast 0-1 (0%)
Patriot 0-1 (0%)
Southern 0-1 (0%)
Southland 0-1 (0%)
Summit 0-1 (0%)
Sun Belt 0-1 (0%)
WAC 0-2 (0%)

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

NCAA Tournament Expansion

March 31

According to big ten commissioner, Jim Delaney, the NCAA tournament is "probable" to expand to 96 teams. If this goes through it will start 2011. The NCAA will meet April 21 or 29? to decide on this.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/tournament/2010/news/story?id=5043254

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Bracket busting upset

The #9 Northern Iowa Panthers have just upset the overall #1 seed Kansas Jayhawks 69-67. This by far is the biggest upset of the tournament. They become the first team to beat a No. 1 seed in the second round since UAB over Kentucky and Alabama did it to Stanford in 2004.

Friday, March 19, 2010

NCAA Tournament Day 2

March 19

Overall 23-15
Day 1 (Play in game): 1-0
Day 2 (1st round): 9-7
Day 3 (1st round): 13-3
Day 4 (2nd round): 0-1

Day 1 Win: Arkansas Pine Bluff

Day 2 Wins: Kentucky, Washington, New Mexico, Baylor, Villanova, BYU, Kansas State, Kansas, Northern Iowa

Day 3 Wins: West Virginia, Cornell, Xavier, Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, Texas A&M, Gonzaga, Duke, Michigan State, Syracuse, Ohio State, Cal, Maryland

Day 2 Losses: Texas, Notre Dame, Richmond, San Diego State, Georgetown (Sweet 16), UTEP (Sweet 16), Vanderbilt

Day 3 losses: Clemson, Siena (Sweet 16), Oklahoma State

Day 4 losses: Villanova 

Worst conference: the overrated Big East

Best conference: Big 12

Thursday, March 18, 2010

The NCAA tournament

March 18

The first round of the NCAA tournament so far has been absolutely amazing.
#7 BYU takes out #10 Florida 99-92 in 2OT
#11 Old Dominion upsets #6 Notre Dame 51-50
#2 Villanova survives #15 Robert Morris 73-70 in OT.
#5 Butler uses a 20-4 2nd half run to beat #12 UTEP 77-59.

Updates

Clemson RB Peyton Streko, Fresno State RB Brandon Ramirez will miss the season due to undisclosed injuries Houston WR Muizz Tounkara will be...