NCAA Tournament LiveBlog (Round of 64 – Thursday)

Midwest Regional

No. 14 Valparaiso Crusaders vs. No. 3 Michigan State Spartans, 12:15 p.m. ET, CBS

No. 13 New Mexico State Aggies vs. No. 4 Saint Louis Billikens, 2:10 p.m. ET, TNT

No. 11 St. Mary’s Gaels vs. No. 6 Memphis Tigers, approx. 2:40 p.m. ET, CBS

No. 12 Oregon Ducks vs. No. 5 Oklahoma State Cowboys, approx. 4:40 p.m. ET, TNT

No. 16 North Carolina A&T Aggies vs. No. 1 Louisville Cardinals, 6:50 p.m. ET, TBS

No. 9 Missouri Tigers vs. No. 8 Colorado State Rams, approx. 9:20 p.m. ET, TBS

West Regional

No. 9 Wichita State Shockers vs. No. 8 Pittsburgh Panthers, 1:40 p.m. ET, TBS

No. 16 Southern Jaguars vs. No. 1 Gonzaga Bulldogs, approx. 4:10 p.m. ET, TBS

No. 11 Belmont Bruins vs. No. 6 Arizona Wildcats, 7:20 p.m. ET, TNT

No. 14 Harvard Crimson vs. No. 3 New Mexico Lobos, approx. 9:50 p.m. ET, TNT

South Regional

No. 13 South Dakota State Jackrabbits vs. No. 4 Michigan Wolverines, 7:15 p.m. ET, CBS

No. 12 Akron Zips vs. No. 5 VCU Rams, approx. 9:45 p.m. ET, CBS

East Regional

No. 11 Bucknell Bison vs. No. 6 Butler Bulldogs, 12:40 p.m. ET, TruTV

No. 14 Davidson Wildcats vs. No. 3 Marquette Golden Eagles, approx. 3:10 p.m. ET, TruTV

No. 12 California Golden Bears vs. No. 5 UNLV Runnin’ Rebels, 7:27 p.m. ET, TruTV

No. 13 Montana Grizzlies vs. No. 4 Syracuse Orange, approx. 9:57 p.m. ET, TruTV

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Class of '98, Mechanical Engineer, State fan since arriving on campus and it's been a painful ride ever since. I live by the Law of NC State Fandom, "For every Elation there is an equal and opposite Frustration."

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192 Responses to NCAA Tournament LiveBlog (Round of 64 – Thursday)

  1. BJD95 03/21/2013 at 4:39 PM #

    Teams State would beat on the way to the final – Indiana, UNLV (shades of 83), Marquette (shades of 74), Georegtown (83 champ symbolically beating 84 champ). Tell me that wouldn’t be fun as sh-t.

  2. ncsu1987 03/21/2013 at 4:40 PM #

    “Miami owns em”

    Interesting. I’ve got Miami and Louisville in the finals, with the ‘Ville winning a squeaker. Lots of faith in the ‘Canes right now.

  3. TheAliasTroll 03/21/2013 at 4:40 PM #

    well Pitt took a huge dump on my bracket

  4. BJD95 03/21/2013 at 4:43 PM #

    I remember last year, all three of my brackets were dead by Friday afternoon. Worst I’ve ever done. I just want a path to victory remaining after the first weekend.

  5. TheCOWDOG 03/21/2013 at 4:43 PM #

    You may call me nuts,but it’s Duke over Miami

  6. Wufpacker 03/21/2013 at 4:43 PM #

    That would be a fun road BJD. I hope you’re planning to slip smallpox virus into the water supply of the Hoosiers and Hoyas though.

  7. Wufpacker 03/21/2013 at 4:45 PM #

    I won’t call ya crazy ‘Dog, but I myself couldn’t get Duke past the ‘Ville, or Miami past Indiana. Wouldn’t shock me for either to happen, but just couldn’t do it.

  8. BJD95 03/21/2013 at 4:50 PM #

    Miami would be a huge challenge for Indiana. But so are we, damn it. They gotta guard us too, pal!

  9. ncsu1987 03/21/2013 at 4:52 PM #

    ^’Dog, personally I’d love to see your scenario unfold. Might help a bit with the ACC respect heading into next year…

  10. TheAliasTroll 03/21/2013 at 4:54 PM #

    I mean Pitt got their damn asses whooped. How a team comes out to the NCAA tournament that they’ve been working all season towards and just lay a turd like that is beyond me…

    Davidson putting up a hell of a fight against Buzz’s team. Fun game to watch. I feel like Marquette will do well if they can get past Davidson.

  11. FluffyMcNutter 03/21/2013 at 4:57 PM #

    My bracket is probably crazier than I meant for it to be.

    My Final 4 is ‘Ville, New Mexico, Florida, Indiana. Florida winning it all against New Mexico. So, yeah…kinda crazy, but mellowing it out a little with Indiana and Louisville both in the Final 4. I don’t actually think Florida is good enough to win, but I think they got a really nice draw and had trouble figuring out where they’d lose, so I just went for broke with it.

    Of course, I had Bucknell beating Davidson to get to the Sweet 16…so that sucks.

    Other upsets I picked: St. Mary’s over Memphis (not looking great there); Belmont over ‘Zona; Wisconsin over Gonzaga (although I’m not sure that counts); Iowa St. over ND; Minnesota over UCLA; San Diego St. over Georgetown; Cal over UNLV; and Colorado over Illinois.

    I like upsets.

  12. BJD95 03/21/2013 at 4:59 PM #

    What an ending for SMC and Memphis!!!

  13. Wufpacker 03/21/2013 at 5:02 PM #

    ^^ I too like Minn over UCLA, Colo over Ill, and Iowa St. over ND.

    And yeah, I went with St. Mary’s for the upset as well, who along with Pitt, screwed me over.

  14. redcanine 03/21/2013 at 5:02 PM #

    “When possible, I advanced teams from more meth-friendly locales. ”

    That was good.

    Get your tomatoes ready…I got the Hoosiers going all the way. Trying to confuse my karma.

  15. FluffyMcNutter 03/21/2013 at 5:03 PM #

    Got my hopes up for a few seconds that I might have looked brilliant there. No go.

  16. Wufpacker 03/21/2013 at 5:03 PM #

    Starting to wish I had shown Davidson some love.

  17. TheCOWDOG 03/21/2013 at 5:06 PM #

    Now, you wanna see a really dumb team, look no further than Marquette

  18. MrPlywood 03/21/2013 at 5:06 PM #

    St Mary’s last play should have looked for someone rolling off in the lane. It was open. They only needed two. I’ve seen variations of that a lot this year, including a nice lob to Calvin.

    Peter Brady lives another day.

  19. MrPlywood 03/21/2013 at 5:08 PM #

    I still have 2 perfect brackets, both with Davidson winning… we’ll see.

  20. redcanine 03/21/2013 at 5:09 PM #

    “Now, you wanna see a really dumb team, look no further than Marquette”

    How so?

    I haven’t been watching closely.

  21. Wufpacker 03/21/2013 at 5:09 PM #

    Completely random and pointless (don’t say it)….

    But do we like the standard NCAA court they use at all venues these days? I always liked the variety of colors, layouts, etc., of the various home teams’ courts.

  22. Pack78 03/21/2013 at 5:10 PM #

    Still 9 minutes left, but Davidson looks like they might well whack Marquette…

  23. MrPlywood 03/21/2013 at 5:12 PM #

    @ Wuf – except for Oregon’s mess of a court.

  24. Wufpacker 03/21/2013 at 5:15 PM #

    Well, yeah…have to agree there. They are the exception I suppose.

  25. redcanine 03/21/2013 at 5:17 PM #

    Davidson looks to be doubling the post quite well. Quick instincts. Good team.

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