Today, seven more teams make their way into The Basketball Tournament’s Super 16. The first nine spots — all eight in the West and South Regions plus Marquette’s spot in the Northeast — have already been settled, and Saturday’s winners will clash in an effort to see who heads to Atlanta starting this coming Thursday night.
The Northeast stayed pretty chalky on Saturday, with only one seed-line favorite falling in the first round. That was a pretty big upset, though, as #2 HBC Sicklerville got blown out of the building by #15 seed Talladega Knights. The Knights, who had played a play-in game roughly 14 hours earlier, shot 12-of-27 from long range on their way to a 43-25 lead at halftime and a 80-60 final margin.