Another installment of what is to become a regular feature here at MarchManiacs.com, here's a quick look at the highs and lows from Tuesday.
I'm a bit biased here, but UCF losing at home in their own holiday classic to Jacksonville is one of the worst losses of the night. Many of our readers would beg to differ, but must surely now concede the Knights are not a top five team in the improved C-USA.
Cincinnati snatched a huge win in their BEast opener, beating Connecticut on two late Lance Stevenson free throws. After the close calls everywhere in week one, it is going to be a joy to cover this conference this year.
Louisville did what they were supposed to do; dispatch USF with relative ease. Perhaps the Bulls are not quite ready to leap out of the cellar, or maybe this is simply the start of the annual Card surge...
Just when we showered UAB with some mid-major love...they go out and lose to ACC cellar dwellar Virginia 72-63. However, not all mid majors dissapointed Wednesday. If you are already sick of hearing me glam on William & Mary, skip this paragraph. After beating Maryland 83-77 in College Park it is time to accept the Tribe as a legit tourney team. Legitimatly the CAA has three of them...
From mid-majors to low-majors, how about Harvard? Having already completed their now annual beating of Boston College they followed it up tonight with a 66-53 thumping of A-10 foe George Washington.
Northern Colorado continued their very unnoticed, yet impressive start. In the last two nights they have beaten Denver and TCU by double digits. Not saying UNC (the other one) is a team to lose sleep over, but I like to introduce you to your 14 and 15 seeds early.
Also tonight featured a pair of "come to Earth" losses for a few teams we can't help but love to love. Northwestern lost their Big 10 opener to Illinois, not a "bad" loss but certainly a dissapointing one.
One last news bulletin: George Mason is definitely NOT "this year's George Mason.". After watching the Patriots get pounded 80-53 by Radford; then glancing at W&M, VCU, and Old Dominion...it's hard to imagine this season getting much better for America's Cinderella.
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