First round chaos

[Ozheelfan]

To summarise round 1:
All four #1 seeds avoided making history
A #2 and a #3 went down in flames (MSU, WVU)
The wrong #4 lost
Two #5 seeds also failed first up
Three #6 seeds went home
Two #7 seeds are out
and
Three #8 seeds can begin planning for '16-17

So, 13 of the top 32 ranked teams were beaten (40%)..... upset city or are there a bunch of Cinderella's dancing this year?

Honestly, it's interesting to look at but I only worry about a certain # 1 team..... let the carnage continue elsewhere (Go Yale)

 

[Tru Blu Tar Heel]

Yep, at this point I'm hoping for pure chaos everywhere but Carolina's line.

 

[Tom79]

To summarise round 1:
All four #1 seeds avoided making history
A #2 and a #3 went down in flames (MSU, WVU)
The wrong #4 lost
Two #5 seeds also failed first up
Three #6 seeds went home
Two #7 seeds are out
and
Three #8 seeds can begin planning for '16-17

So, 13 of the top 32 ranked teams were beaten (40%)..... upset city or are there a bunch of Cinderella's dancing this year?

Honestly, it's interesting to look at but I only worry about a certain # 1 team..... let the carnage continue elsewhere (Go Yale)

It sure seems that there are a lot of kids that can play from mid majors to the top programs. Let the kids determine it on the floor, the way it ought to be these days. I understand there has been a run on pencil erasers around the nation. Brackets way messed up now!

 

[DSouthr]

It sure seems that there are a lot of kids that can play from mid majors to the top programs. Let the kids determine it on the floor, the way it ought to be these days. I understand there has been a run on pencil erasers around the nation. Brackets way messed up now!

Yeah Tom, there are some good mid majors out there but I as well think some of these higher ranked teams really under estimated the mid majors and as a result just didn't play the way they are capable of playing. I mean there is no way MTSU beats MSU consistently but all they had to do was beat them this one time, MSU was playing as well as any team in the country before that game.

I think to many teams delayed their survive and advance mindset for the second round game to their peril. Those mid majors went in to their very first game in this tourney with that survive and advance mindset and some of them, like FGC vs us already had a game under their belt in this tourney when they played us. They were already in NCAAT win or go home mode, it took us a half to finally get our guys in to that mindset, we sure did not have that mindset in that first half. When you are expected to lose you get to play the role of underdawg, that can be a powerful thing, kids can rally around that notion and play with total abandon, but the expected winner has to win and that at times can come out as playing not to lose. When one team is playing like they have nothing to lose and the other team is playing not to lose the stage is set for upset city. And we have seen just that in these first couple days of games.

 

[Archer2]

Having to win six in a row against increasingly more difficult competition, or go home, makes the NCAAT the most difficult team championship to win. And when that reality sinks in, the rim can appear the size of a golf cup.

 

[MWHeels]

I definitely think Michigan State was looking past the first round and never thought Middle Tennessee State had a chance to beat them. It's not just that they lost, it's the fact that they never had the lead in the entire game. That is inexcusable for a team with senior leaders in Valentine and Costello. MTSU was the tougher team yesterday. They wanted it more and they deserved to win.