Random Walk to Montgomery, Day 2
While day 1 went mostly according to seed, day 2 started with a mild upset in Clearwater, FL, when D9 easily handled D8. They will play D1, who appeared sluggish against D16, but held on for the victory. In the second session at St. Petersburgh College, C13 did not provide much of a challenge against C4, but their starting center, also a tight end on the football team, caused not one but two fifteen minute delays by shattering the backboard with his dunks. C12 thought they had the obligatory 12-5 upset for most of the game, until C5's senior reserve guard got a hot hand of the bench with four threes in the span of two minutes late in the second half. C5 eagerly awaits their rematch with C4 who knocked them out of the tournament two years ago.
In Newark, DE, on the campus of the University of Delaware, the 12 seed got it done when D12 knocked off D5. Most pundits considered the rating of D12 as a 12 seed to be the most egregious underrating of a team. It never gets respect in spite of its strong track record in the tournament. D4 took revenge for the favorites by handily beating D13. C8 continued its hot play by beating C9, and C1 sent everyone home early by running up a 35 point halftime lead over lowly C16.
At the Butte Civic Center in Montana, A4 beat A13 despite a losing their head coach midway through the second half when he tripped over the foot of a sophomore reserve center and broke his wrist. There was heartbreak in the afternoon's second game when A5 started the game with two technical free throws after an excited freshman power forward for A12 dunked during warm-ups. A5 won by just one point.
B1 kicked off the action at Frenso State's Save Mart Center with an easy victory over B16. They will play B9, who advanced in a nailbiter when B8's senior forward missed two freethrows with 0.9 seconds remaining. He got his own rebound and put up a shot, but it ticked off the side of the rim as the buzzer sounded. Had he hit the shot, not only would his team have advanced, he would have moved into first place in his schools career field goal percentage. In the second session, A3 beat A14 without too much trouble, but in the last game of the first round, A6 and A11 really drew the ire of the Eastern Time Zone when their game went into eight overtime periods! The longest game ever in college basketball ended when A11's point guard fouled out 30 seconds into the final overtime period, reducing his team to only four active players. Buoyed by this, A6 took their second wind and won by a final score of 171-159.
In Newark, DE, on the campus of the University of Delaware, the 12 seed got it done when D12 knocked off D5. Most pundits considered the rating of D12 as a 12 seed to be the most egregious underrating of a team. It never gets respect in spite of its strong track record in the tournament. D4 took revenge for the favorites by handily beating D13. C8 continued its hot play by beating C9, and C1 sent everyone home early by running up a 35 point halftime lead over lowly C16.
At the Butte Civic Center in Montana, A4 beat A13 despite a losing their head coach midway through the second half when he tripped over the foot of a sophomore reserve center and broke his wrist. There was heartbreak in the afternoon's second game when A5 started the game with two technical free throws after an excited freshman power forward for A12 dunked during warm-ups. A5 won by just one point.
B1 kicked off the action at Frenso State's Save Mart Center with an easy victory over B16. They will play B9, who advanced in a nailbiter when B8's senior forward missed two freethrows with 0.9 seconds remaining. He got his own rebound and put up a shot, but it ticked off the side of the rim as the buzzer sounded. Had he hit the shot, not only would his team have advanced, he would have moved into first place in his schools career field goal percentage. In the second session, A3 beat A14 without too much trouble, but in the last game of the first round, A6 and A11 really drew the ire of the Eastern Time Zone when their game went into eight overtime periods! The longest game ever in college basketball ended when A11's point guard fouled out 30 seconds into the final overtime period, reducing his team to only four active players. Buoyed by this, A6 took their second wind and won by a final score of 171-159.
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