2016 Tournament Continued

We are now through the always busy first weekend of the basketball tournament.  Could have been better, could have been worse.  I started with 5 teams this year.  Two faced each other in their opening round, so only one could advance, in this case Northern Iowa won and Texas lost.  Florida Gulf Coast University won their opening play-in round game, but got crushed facing a one-seed in the first full round of the bracket.  Northern Iowa had a nice lead going into the last 30 seconds of their 2nd round game, the kind of lead where most would just go ahead and mark them down for a win.  Instead they found ways to give away the game in a double overtime loss, being called by many one of the worst end of game performances in the history of the tournament.

That leaves me with two alive for next weekend.  10 seed Syracuse has managed to hold on for two rounds, and now will go against an even lower seeded Gonzaga, which so far this year has played better than most have expected.  And Villanova, one of the top teams in the country this spring, has a good chance of keeping things going for at least another weekend.  I'll have an update for you in about another week.