Tourney Thoughts

***to be updated throughout the day***

3:10: A 14-2 run lasting all 5:00 kills Pacific. Boston College 88, Pacific 76.

3:01: Two shots with 4 seconds left for BC. First one made, second one...made. Pacific ball....missed shot at the buzzer and a SECOND overtime.

3:00: Pacific drains its third 3 of OT. Back and forth battle, Pacific up two with the ball, 30 seconds left...

2:46: Traveling on BC with 5 seconds left??? Pacific unable to get a shot off, turns it over, BC tries to call timeout, but there's only 0.2 seconds left. Overtime on the way....

2:44: Pacific ties it up with a 3 with 9 seconds left!!!

Consider this the official start of Madness. No one wants to lose this one. BC's made 6 free throws down the stretch and Pacific isn't missing anything either. A good fight.

2:42: San Diego - It was not a fish taco. It was a hot dog stand. And the arena has been re-opened. Tip-off around 4:30. That means 15 hours of basketball instead of 13. Yay!

2:41: #11 UW-Milwaukee 82, #6 Oklahoma 74, Final. So much for Boomer Sooner.

2:40: 1 minute left, BC could not make a shot to put them away. Pacific gets 3 foul shots and makes all of them with 45 seconds left. Whoa....

2:39: #7 Wichita State 86, #10 Seton Hall 66, Final.

2:29: Old-fashioned 3-point play (fouling out Oates for BC), followed by a layup for Pacific. Down to a 2-point lead with a little over 4 minutes left. UWM may not even be the biggest upset of this time slot.

2:23: Big 3 for Pacific, Lead is cut to 5, down from 13. 55-50, 6:25 left.

2:15: All three games are double-digits now - BC up 51-40 with 11:00 left, UWM up 60-46 with 8:00 left, Wichita St. up 68-52 with 6:00 left. The fourth game, supposed to be Alabama-Marquette, is delayed as the arena in San Diego has been cleared for a security threat due to a suspicious package. No more details available but tipoff (set for 2:40 EST) is most certainly delayed a while. (It's San Diego - it's probably a leftover fish taco.)

2:03: UW-Milwaukee up 11 with 11 minutes to go so that looks to be the first upset of the tourney right now as an 11 over a 6. BC's gotten their legs back and has gone out to a 9-point lead early in the second half. Guess we'll wait to see if Pacific can get another run going. John Oates (C) for BC just got his 4th foul with 14 minutes left, so now would be the time.

1:50: I'm putting the over/under for Masters Promos today at 35. I'm at 3 right now.

1:32: Halftimes all around: Wichita St. over Seton Hall 40-24, UW-M over Oklahoma 33-31, and BC & Pacific are tied at 34. Considering they were down 9 early in the first half, nice job by Pacific to get back in the game.

1:17: 11-4 run for Pacific has them tied with BC at 28. Johnny Gray's made some big shots so far and BC's crashing the boards at a frenetic pace. I don't think CBS will be switching away from this game very much.

1:04: The long timeout in the BC game, 5 minutes in, seems to have given Pacific a little energy. They're only down 7, so they're holding on strong. They've had some lucky bounces on shots, but you need those to pull off a 13-4 upset. If they can keep it at single digits we could have early drama.

Seton Hall is getting lapped now, down 40-20. And Cincinnati wouldn't have provided a better game?

12:49: Second verse, same as the first; Boston College really looks fired up and Pacific seems out of sorts. Maybe I shouldn't have picked Pacific after all. BC is up 8-2 and Wichita St. is up 27-15. Only Oklahoma and UW-M seems competitive right now.

12:38: First game switch, with Wichita St. up 16-6 on Seton Hall. Not a good sign for the Pirates that CBS has given them up already. They may want to wake up soon.

12:32: Seton Hall so far proving they didn't deserve any seed, let alone a #10. They look very slow and sloppy against Wichita State.

12:23: Talking about games later today and a potential Winthrop upset of Tennessee....they have heard of jinxes, right?

12:15: Coverage has started. I don't think I've ever seen guys in suits, at a desk, in an office, as happy as Clark Kellogg seems to be.