Biggest first-round upset?

[Mystery_Meat]

My biggest: Albany over Virginia. Don't see a lot of 2-15 or 3-14 kind of upsets, though Wazzou-Oral Roberts and Wisconsin-TA&MCC would be the most likely of them.

Thoughts?

 

[beefncheddar]

Virginia's guard play should be good enough to avoid the upset. At least for a round.

 

[Write-brained]

Damn, I think every single one of the 14 seeds has a chance ... Miami of OH, Wright State and Penn all have solid programs with vulnerable opponents.

Plus I'm biased. I always root for the MAC schools and, judging from the way Oregon has been a media darling, I'd say they're ripe for the picking.

 

[markvid]

Wright State will beat Pitt.
Book it.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Wright State will beat Pitt.
Book it.

Especially is Aaron Gray's vag is still bleeding from Saturday night.

 

[Oz]

I don't know if this would be the biggest first-round upset, but I like Old Dominion to beat Butler, which is in free-fall mode. Davidson-Maryland and Miami-Oregon are a couple others I'm looking at.

Especially Miami-Oregon. I just don't trust teams that owe their seed thanks to coming from nowhere to win conference tournaments. See Syracuse from last season.

 

[Write-brained]

I don't know if this would be the biggest first-round upset, but I like Old Dominion to beat Butler, which is in free-fall mode. Davidson-Maryland and Miami-Oregon are a couple others I'm looking at.

Especially Miami-Oregon. I just don't trust teams that owe their seed thanks to coming from nowhere to win conference tournaments. See Syracuse from last season.

For the record, I'll say Kansas appears safe in the first round this year, even without knowing who they're playing ... but God help them if they get behind late ... those demons can be hard to shake.

 

[Oz]

For the record, I'll say Kansas appears safe in the first round this year, even without knowing who they're playing ... but God help them if they get behind late ... those demons can be hard to shake.

Uh, yeah.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Long Beach State over Tennessee in the yearly 12-5 upset.

The commentators seemed to think Oral Roberts was gonna beat Wazzu. I don't know about that.

 

[Write-brained]

For the record, I'll say Kansas appears safe in the first round this year, even without knowing who they're playing ... but God help them if they get behind late ... those demons can be hard to shake.

Uh, yeah.

You're not even a little bit worried?

 

[Oz]

Nope. You must have missed both KU-Texas games in the past eight days, today's especially. You don't come back from a 32-10 deficit on a neutral floor against a beast like Durant unless you've got some serious resolve.

This is the most mentally tough team KU's had in quite some time. Hardly anyone from that team that lost to Bucknell is around these days, that was a senior-laden team. So for KU's key players, last year was the first taste of the NCAA Tournament they had -- long story short, they lacked experience. They got it now.

 

[pallister]

Arkansas over USC.

 

[Write-brained]

Nope. You must have missed both KU-Texas games in the past eight days, today's especially. You don't come back from a 32-10 deficit on a neutral floor against a beast like Durant unless you've got some serious resolve.

This is the most mentally tough team KU's had in quite some time. Hardly anyone from that team that lost to Bucknell is around these days, that was a senior-laden team. So for KU's key players, last year was the first taste of the NCAA Tournament they had -- long story short, they lacked experience. They got it now.

Truth be told, I try not to watch college basketball until tournament time ... and if I do it's Big Ten, ACC or SEC ... where I have roots ... not Big 12.

Y'all got a tough bracket.

 

[sportschick]

TAMU-Corpus Christi over Wisconsin

and (I hate myself for this) Miami (Ohio) over Oregon

 

[XXXX]

i got virginialosing too to albany. i think the #1s will all last awhile.

 

[Freelance Hack]

I can see Penn knocking off Texas A&M.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Holy Cross.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

I see a lot of journalists on drugs here tonight.

 

[JayFarrar]

Is Winthrop beating Notre Dame an upset?
Davidson over Maryland, Illinois over Virginia Tech, VCU over Duke and Arkansas to beat USC.
It will setup in the second round Butler-Davidson, Illinois-SIU, VCU-Pitt and Arkansas-Texas.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

My rule-of-thumb critera: a genuine upset involves a top-four losing in the first round. The 5-12 game always produces at least one 12 winning, and 6s and 11s are too close to call it an upset when the 11 wins.