NCAA Tournament 1st Round Recaps, Michigan & Duke Survive, Terps Go Home (LaxFactor Podcast  

One might say the Duke game was a hit too close haha.

@@LaxFactor also like Georgetown defense just broke down I thought, and I think army is serious, they want to win.

@@LaxFactor also how about that grass in Charlottesville?

The way Michigan is playing they can beat anyone. Duke may be angry after the Delaware scare though haha.

I think I may be forced to do a Tewaaraton show next week for sure, so we'll do that mid-week with the preview show.

Yeah, I was partly rooting for Delaware and partly thinking, how did this come to be that Duke got stuck playing them haha. My favorite game of the weekend was Michigan/Cornell. I was rooting for Cornell in a half hearted sort of way, so wasn't all that mad that Michigan beat them, but what a story that is.

You ain't wrong. Tall task taking on ND. Great year for the Utes to be certain.

Difference will be at the dot. Penn State is not good at the dot and Coletti and Army are very good there. Other than that these teams match up pretty well. Should be a crazy game.

I think the ivies were overrated earlier in the season and properly rated by the end. They lost to better teams is all. The degrees have been overrated for well over a decade or longer haha.

Eh, I think I gave the Ivy appropriate hype all season compared to the ACC and B1G. They all got similar numbers in the tournament. Yes, I did have Princeton ranked too highly to start the season, but so did everyone else who get's a poll vote. Cornell was probably properly ranked and simply fell victim to a Michigan team that never stopped improving all season. Really, same could be said of Princeton by the end of the season, both Cornell and Princeton lost to teams from the B1G that continued to get better as the season went on. But the only games of my bracket I picked wrong I believe was Princeton and Cornell right? In my actual bracket pool I'm in, I had each of them getting beat in the next round, so I think I'm good overall.

@@LaxFactor I'm still just mad about last year, where the entire Ivy got in and only one ACC school did. This year I have a hard time saying that any team from the Ivy deserved a spot over Syracuse or North Carolina, but I get why it happened. Seeing all three Ivy schools knocked out in the first round felt like vindication.

Yeah, this year the issue for both SU and UNC was the # of quality wins. For Cuse especially, they didn't have any bad losses, but they also didn't have any top 10 wins. Had they knocked off Duke, Notre Dame or UVA, 2 of the 3 or even 1 of the 3 it puts them in the conversation, but they didn't pull that off.

@@LaxFactor That's where I have heartburn. From where I'm sitting Princeton is the #1 team in the Ivy...at least by tournament. Syracuse handled business against them. The only out of conference win that I'm impressed by with the three Ivy's that got in was Cornell over Army...and that was a close one. It seems 1) preseason rankings matter too much, and 2) a win against an Ivy opponent is only considered a quality win if you are an Ivy team. If you don't consider any Ivy a quality win, Yale doesn't make the cut. And if you can't tell...I don't.