O melhor é mesmo ver todos os jogos no site da CBS.
Estou aqui no trabalho com 2 horas de sono. Ontem era eu a querer ir dormir e mais um jogo equilibrado até tocar a corneta. Mais um prolongamento, mais drama. Sem dúvida que a minha previsão estava correcta. Este ano vai ser ainda mais louco que em anos anteriores. Fica aqui um excerto do que se passou ontem:
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The 2010 edition of the best day in college sports turned into arguably the greatest opening day in NCAA tournament history.
And it was a day that left many college basketball fans, including President Barack Obama, second-guessing their brackets.
The opening day of the NCAA tournament started Thursday with two games ending in overtime -- one going into double-overtime and the other involving a No. 15 seed -- and another game being decided by one point.
Just when it seemed the day could not get any better, a No. 13 seed stunned a No. 4 on a buzzer-beater and a No. 3 seed had to fight like mad to hold off a No. 14.
Unbelievably, Thursday's nightcap was even better than the day's earlier games. A No. 14 seed actually knocked off a No. 3 and three more games were won on last-second shots, including yet another one decided in overtime.
By the time No. 3-seeded New Mexico held off No. 14-seeded Montana 62-57 early Friday morning on the East Coast, the carnage of the tournament's first 13 hours left researchers scrambling for the record books. Seven lower-seeded teams won games Thursday, including five double-digit seeds, the most on the opening day of the tournament since 1991.
And for those who think there's not enough parity in college basketball, consider this: eight of the 16 games were decided in OT or by a 3 points or less (that hadn't happened on the first day since the field expanded in 1985), 11 of the 16 were decided by single-digits and three games went to overtime.
How much of a difference is eight out of 16 being decided in OT or by 3 points or less? Consider this: There were a grand total of nine of those games in the entire 2009 tournament.