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I got too lazy to print the brackets in readable size for a DawgTalkers' box. So here’s the link to the brackets.

https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1/reg_bracket

A couple notes:

The “First Four”” starts tomorrow.

#16 LIU Brooklyn vs. #16 Radford 6:40 PM
#11 St. Bonaventure vs. #11 UCLA 9:10 PM

Ohio State is a #5 seed and opens March 15th against the always dangerous #12 South Dakota State.

I only counted 4 Big Ten teams.

Ohio State, Michigan, Purdue, Michigan State

What a sucky showing by the Big Ten.

This used to be an annual board event.

I sense group depression.

Here. Feel better?

A 70’s nose and 80’s hair.

Does that really work for you?

Hey the Indians won another preseason game today.

Are you ready Dayton?

The "First Four" (as opposed to Final Four) games kick-off there tonight.

LIU Brooklyn vs. Radford @ 6:40 pm EST

St. Bonaventure vs. UCLA @ 9:10 PM




And talk about David and Goliath:

It's not a sucky showing if all 4 of them advance to the Sweet 16.. which is possible.

It is a down year for the Big 10 for depth so the top of the conference needs to show up... I'd rather have only 4 teams in that advance to the sweet 16, than have 7 teams in and only have 1 or 2 of them advance..

GO BUCKEYES

quote above by DC:



Well...YEAH...

I think the best the Big Ten ever did in the tourney was 3 teams in the Elite 8 in 2014: Michigan, Michigan State & Wisconsin. Of which only Wisconsin advanced to the Final Four.

Well, WAHOO! I hope to see more of them than the Eternal Reds down here. Just horrific how south of Columbus it is all Reds. We have gotten some better coverage in the Springfield paper, but it is just drivel and overkill of Cincy sports and animosity towards The Land.

Good to see the Bonnies beat UCLA. Surprised they were getting +4.5 in this one.

big win BOnnies!

The Atlantic-10 Conference is tough in men's basketball.

Great to see the Bonnies win.

Did you know St. Bonaventure used to be the St. Bonaventure Brown(s) Indians?

If Syracuse wins tonight, pretty nice start for upper NY

Tonight round 2 of the First Four:

#6 Texas Southern vs. #16 North Carolina Central 6:40 PM EST (you listenin’ Mr. Piedmont Plateau water?)

#11 Syracuse vs. #11 Arizona State 9:10 PM



I like the looks of this late game. Not the teams, the mascots.

I want SYR to win, but ASU is scary on offense

Agreed, but super tough road ahead of them.

Some good games today!!

Buckeyes won't hang without stepping up. Please do not allow Chis Webber to call our game.

How biased. He stunk it up pretty good. Obvious somebody believes we are tuned in to see the pile of talking-head experts and a woman explain their opinions to each other. That sure worked horribly for the selection "special" that had horrible ratings.

Arizona got freaking throttled

BUCKEYES WIN 25-8 ON TO GONZAGA SATURDAY

Want to watch a clinic of bad offensive basketball?

Turn on the Virginia UMBC game.

Man, rough match-up this early.

Go umbc!!!!! I had UVA in the eilite 8 but love a huge upset!!!

If this score holds it would be a historic upset. 1st 1 seed to ever go down. 145-0 in history 16 seeds vs 1 seeds.

Just under 10 minutes to go UMBC 47 Virgina 34.

We've had two bracket busters(Marshall and Buffalo) so far but this wouldn't be a bracket buster, it would be a bracket destroyer.

Yesssss.

I would love to see it, I'm a UC fan and would rather face Virginia than UK. But even if Virginia makes the comeback I can't see them beating UK. Provided that UC makes it to the elite 8 anyway, but that's another story.

I have UK beating them in the sweet 16 while most don't in my group, so it wouldn't bother me.

I had the opposite, UVA beating UK in the Sweet 16 and going to the Final Four.

I put UK in my final 4 as much as it pained me, but it is what it is. They always have much success this time of year, even when you least expect it.

j/c...

Absolutely incredible.

Things will never be the same. Death, taxes, and 1 seeds beating 16 seeds. Everything has now changed.

Wow!!

I knew it would happen eventually. Virginia lost their 6th man a few days ago and UMBC caught fire from deep (12/24). Crazy!

The ACC is now 2-4 in the first round with 2 games on-going, which it looks like they will win.. they have lost their conference champion in historic fashion as the only 1 seed to ever lose to a 16 seed.. All but 1 of the teams that lost was the higher seed...

Would the Big 10 look better if Nebraska, Penn State, Indiana, and Maryland had gotten in and lost to lower ranked teams in the first round?

Horrible argument, you're using teams that belonged in versus teams that didn't.

Penn St and Nebraska had legit wins versus legit teams. Indiana and Maryland? Come on man where does that come from? they're terrible and I'm not even a Big 10 fan.

Someone got some explaining to do...

https://twitter.com/littlecaesars/status/974767358584737793

UVA scored 21 points in the first half against freaking UMBC.. UVA had not given up 70 in a game all year, UMBC scored 55 in the second half..
This wasn't about losing the 6th man, this was about getting your ass beat and not being able to adapt..

And the reason UMBC shot such a high percentage was because they were able to break down UVA's defense with the dribble drive and either score or kick and UVA never adjusted. They took a lot of wide-open (practice like) 3 pointers...

Basketball is alive and well in Maryland, it's not my Terps, but whathehell, I now have a team to root for..

I bet they insured themselves, just in case. I also bet that the insurance cost next to nothing, because ... well .... it had never happened.

It's too bad I don't like Little Ceasars.

You'd think a chain called "Little Caesars" would know better than to put out a promotion like that on the Ides of March.

Apparently it's something that plagues ANY team named the Cavaliers.

UMBC had an epic performance. I saw the score at half, thought to myself "I'll at least check it out" ... and kept expecting a UVA run. It never happened. UMBC was a machine. Wow.