It was quite a day in the NCAA Tournament, and it was just Day One.
We saw the expected - Alabama took down 16 Texas A&M-CC by 21, Kansas popped Kenny Blakeney’s Howard 96-68, Texas beat Colgate 81-61, UCLA breezed by UNC Asheville 86-53, San Diego State knocked off Charleston 63-57...and that’s sort of Tier 1.
In Tier Two, Houston had a much closer game than we thought they would with Northern Kentucky 63-52, Tennessee barely survived Louisiana 58-55, Missouri got Utah State 76-65, Maryland nipped West Virginia 67-65, Arkansas beat Illinois 73-63, Auburn became the latest team to send Fran McCaffery home early and Northwestern prevailed over Boise State 75-67.