March Madness Round One Recap

March Madness Round One Recap

By Gavynn Thompson

March Madness is known for its upsets and this year was no different. The tournament tipped off with Michigan playing Colorado State Colorado. State was favored as the higher seed, but Michigan’s rebounding proved to be too much for the Rams as Michigan pulled off the upset 75-63. Just 3 hours later in Buffalo, New York, the Iowa Hawkeyes, who a majority of people picked to make a run into the final four, started their tournament run as they were favored by 9.5 points. The Richmond Spiders did not care about what people had to say about Iowa. As they came out and punched the Hawkeyes in the mouth, going blow for blow, point for point the entire first half. As they went into the half up by 1. That’s when all eyes turned to the Spiders, to see if they could pull off the 12 V.S. 5 upset. Down the stretch of the game the Spiders made their free throws and gave us the first bracket buster of the tournament. At 7 O’clock the second 12 V.S. 5 match up of the tournament tipped off. UCONN, who was coming off a great big East Tournament, played against New Mexico State. The Huskies came in as 6.5 favorites. The biggest upset of the evening came from Indianapolis as number 2 seed Kentucky took on the 15 seed saint peters Kentucky was favored as 18.5 points, but the peacocks of saint peters had different plans with 20 seconds left in the game the peacocks were down 2. But then the legend of Doug Edert was born. Doug hit the game tying jump shot to force overtime and eventually won the game for the peacocks. Which means a favorite to win the time was knocked out first round. With the first round of March madness ending the tournament is heating up with the true Cinderella’s of the tournament about to be revealed.