The year of the upset at the big dance

This has been a very unusual year for the NCAA Tournament, its been one upset after the other.

In the East regional number 12 Cornell beating number 5 Temple and then number 4 Wisconsin before getting trampled by Kentucky. Number 11 Washington beat number 6 Marquette and New Mexico then beaten by Eastern Regional winner West Virginia.

Number 7 Clemson was another 1st round upset victim losing to Missouri, who
turned around and gave West Virginia a tough game before fading late 69-59.

The East seemed to calm down until last night when the number 1 seed
Kentucky lost to West Virginia 73-66. In a game that the Wildcats
made several runs but poor 3 point shooting through out the game
and lack of clutch foul shooting sealed the deal for Kentucky.

The Midwest region had its upsets and has the 2 lowest ranked teams in the
Great 8 Michigan State and Tennessee, its biggest upset was of number 1 Kansas
by number 9 Northern Iowa in the second round.

The first two rounds where friendly to the favorites in the West, with only
number 13 Murry State winning a squeaker over number 4Vanderbilt 66-65,
the second rounds only upset was Xavier over Pit 89-66.

It was in the Sweet Sixteen when things changed, the number 5 Butler Bulldogs
beat the number 1 seed in the West, Syracuse 63-59 and followed that up
with beating the number 2 seed Kansas State 63-56, and have made it to
the final four.

The South has had only 3 upsets throughout, number 11 Old Dominion in a
close one over Notre Dame 51-50 and the 2 upsets by every one's favorite of the
tournament St Mary's.

St Mary turned the table's on Gonzaga in there conference tourney after getting
beat twice in the regular season, they then faced number 7 Richmond in the
first round of the big dance, the number 10 St Mary's surprised the South's
number 2 seed Villanova.

Today we have four more teams trying to punch there ticket to Indy, the first
game is 5 Michigan v 6 Tennessee and 1 Duke v 3 Baylor.

Buckle your seat belt it should be one heck of a ride, through next weekend.