My Lock-it 1st round big upset

#14 American takes out #3 Villanova. The Eagles put 5 seniors on the floor,have a great head coach in Jeff Jones (I miss the UVA days with him),return after being in the dance last year,so there's not going to be a "deer in the headlights" thing going on with the experience from last year, and have a guard in Derrick Mercer who has been hot as a $2 pistol as of late. Who do you all have as your 1st round shock. BTW-would love to see it be ETSU making history as a 16 picking off a 1. Last year I lamented Arizona and Oregon making the field,and they quickly proved me right. Here's hoping that Arizona does it again.

ETSU a 16 seed?

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2009 NCAA Basketball Men's Brackets

Its a travesity. I was hoping 14, but expecting no worse than 15 for ETSU. They almost became the first 16 to beat a 1 in 89, maybe they can finish the job 20 years later. It will be extremely tough to do so though.

American will get blown out by Nova. Nova has great guard play, and is playing at home.

have you seen villanova play unchained? obviously not, because stripes is right. great guards, cunningham is playing well, good coach, tough, tested, etc..

i almost guaranteed ETSU would at least a 15, but 16 is crazy.

they dont have a shot against pitt, etsu has no one inside, blair will kill them.

my first round upset?
mississippi state over washington
washington has great guards, but msu is playing great, and vernardo can change a lot of shots inside.

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Originally Posted by Biggin

have you seen villanova play unchained? obviously not, because stripes is right. great guards, cunningham is playing well, good coach, tough, tested, etc..

i almost guaranteed ETSU would at least a 15, but 16 is crazy.

they dont have a shot against pitt, etsu has no one inside, blair will kill them.

my first round upset?
mississippi state over washington
washington has great guards, but msu is playing great, and vernardo can change a lot of shots inside.

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I have seen Nova play. They are just another solid team in a great conference,but there have been better than that bite the dust over the years. Instead of you all dissing on my pick,hows about doing what I actually wanted from this thread and giving me you all's first round shocker?

Maryland #10 vs. #7 California

Wow, thats really all I can say. My boys were picked 11th out of 12 acc teams in some preseason publications yet here they are. I've been to several Maryland games in my life but I've never been happier than I was Friday Night (and I was at the 04 Duke Game), being in the dome when they took down Wake with that team was great. Wake had twice the talent Maryland did but Gary got the win. It's all gravy from this point forward, I just hope they play at 9 or later on Thursday so I can see it.

This might be the most interest I've given to round one in quite some time, obviously Maryland is in but several other teams I deeply care about are in. Six other ACC teams are in, plus ETSU and Radford. I'd also like to see West Virginia and Louisville do well. The only thing that really surprised me with is Arizona getting in, I was expecting St. Mary's to get in with the return of Mills, obviously getting blown out by the Zags in the tournament hurt their cause. I think WF should've been a three seed, and I think Clemson got penalized to heavily for their loss to GT. The game was practically a home game for the Jackets.

Mine is either going to be Western Kentucky over Illinois or North Dakota State over Kansas......One of those WILL happen.

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Originally Posted by UTVols2

Mine is either going to be Western Kentucky over Illinois or North Dakota State over Kansas......One of those WILL happen.

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There you go-somebody else with the salt to call an actually "reach" upset instead of the ones that folks are already calling for (like AZ over Utah). BTW pvfan-Maryland over Cal would be no shocker IMO.

way to read

i posted mississippi state over washington
strictly by seeds
maryland over cal
usc over bc
utah state over marquette