March Madness Open Thread: Day One Morning Session

by David Piper on Mar 20, 2008 8:38 AM PDT in Oregon Ducks Basketball

The opening Thursday-Friday of March Madness are the best two sporting days of the year. Join me here to talk about all the action (especially if you happen to be one of the unfortunate souls at work). Here's what's on tap for the morning tip:

9:20 PT

14 Georgia vs. 3 Xavier

9:30 PT

16 Portland State vs. 1 Kansas
12 Temple vs. 5 Michigan State

11:30 PT

11 Kentucky vs. 6 Marquette

11:50 PT

11 Baylor vs. 6 Purdue
9 Kent State vs. 8 UNLV

12:00 PT

13 Oral Roberts vs. 4 Pittsburgh

2:00 PT

14 Cornell vs. 3 Stanford

I'll put up another thread for the late games. Please join me here to talk about the action.

--Dave

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And, we're off!

What a great time of year.

by ntrebon on Mar 20, 2008 9:26 AM PDT reply actions

Games online

Also, the games can be watched online at www.ncaasports.com/mmod

by jtlight on Mar 20, 2008 9:42 AM PDT reply actions

CBS is really giving Dominguez

the superstar treatment. PSU's trying to hang tough, but just doesn't have anywhere near the athletes of a KU.

by David Piper on Mar 20, 2008 9:47 AM PDT reply actions

I'm watching Georgia/Xavier

And MSU/Temple, though The Xavier game is interesting thus far.

Despite Georgia's run, I expected them to not do so well.

by jtlight on Mar 20, 2008 9:52 AM PDT reply actions

yeah, I'm not expecting much from UGA either

I see they're ahead, what does that game look like?

by David Piper on Mar 20, 2008 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions

Yep

I have been expecting Georgia to lose the last three times they've stepped on the court.

And, my bracket is counting on it. Xavier losing would hurt.

by ntrebon on Mar 20, 2008 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions

me too

I've got X in the sweet sixteen

by David Piper on Mar 20, 2008 10:02 AM PDT up reply actions

Xavier

Elite 8 for me.

by ntrebon on Mar 20, 2008 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions

Same with me.

by jtlight on Mar 20, 2008 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions

UGA jumped out to an early lead

Xavier is not overly impressive, but they are fighting hard, aren't aren't falling behind by much, so I think they'll pull it out. And they just pulled within 1.

by jtlight on Mar 20, 2008 10:00 AM PDT reply actions

Man..

But Georgia will not go away.

by jtlight on Mar 20, 2008 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions

UGA with a 9 point lead at half

They had a nice run there. Xavier cannot lose.

by jtlight on Mar 20, 2008 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions

If Xavier loses

a lot of brackets are in bad shape.

by David Piper on Mar 20, 2008 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions

Kansas has hit eleventy jillion threes

I know that PSU isn't the best competition, but KU looks scary. Just toying with the Vikings and hitting everything.

The Temple over MSU upset that many were predicting isn't looking so good right now.

by David Piper on Mar 20, 2008 10:13 AM PDT reply actions

Temple

I didn't bite on that one.

by ntrebon on Mar 20, 2008 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions

nor did I

but a bunch of people did. Meanwhile, UGA is keeping an 11 point lead. Its a great story, but I find it hard to root for a 14 seed when the 14 seed is a major conference school.

by David Piper on Mar 20, 2008 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions

Final Four?

Who do you guys like? Until this morning I had three Pac-10 schools until I relented this morning and changed it to just two. I am really rooting for a good showing by the conference.

My final four is UNC, Kansas, UCLA and Stanford.

by ntrebon on Mar 20, 2008 10:42 AM PDT reply actions

That's my final four as well

And Barack Obamas!

by jtlight on Mar 20, 2008 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions

Heh

I hadn't heard Obama's picks.

by ntrebon on Mar 20, 2008 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions

He won the Senate pool last year

So hopefully that luck continues.

by jtlight on Mar 20, 2008 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions

That's a good a sign...

And, he likes to play hold'em. What more could you want in a president?

by ntrebon on Mar 20, 2008 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions

I don't think there's too much more ;)

by jtlight on Mar 20, 2008 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions

Politics...

We should probably leave it at that. Nothing starts a flame war on a blog like bringing up politics. :-)

by ntrebon on Mar 20, 2008 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions

Hahaha

That is so true.

by jtlight on Mar 20, 2008 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions

UNC, UCLA< Georgetown, Texas

with UCLA winning it all

by David Piper on Mar 20, 2008 10:47 AM PDT up reply actions

Gee whiz...

Georgia is hitting everything...

by jtlight on Mar 20, 2008 10:47 AM PDT reply actions

Xavier

Making a little run...

by ntrebon on Mar 20, 2008 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions

Georgia has gotten lucky stopping these earlier...

Hopefully not this time.

by jtlight on Mar 20, 2008 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions

Xavier

Down 4 with the ball.

by ntrebon on Mar 20, 2008 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions

Site stats

Hey Dave, is there page that shows site statistics? Such as unique page views and source links? I know one of the other SBN sites has access to this. It'd be interesting to see if the mention on ESPN drove up traffic at all. Also, I'd be interested in seeing what the general traffic patters are.

by ntrebon on Mar 20, 2008 11:01 AM PDT reply actions