NCAA Tournament Scores-Thursday, March 16

Finally, the Big Dance has begin. Well it officially began on Tuesday with the Monomouth/Hampton game. The folks in my office pool all received a point on that one. But the real gentlemen start your engines began today with the list of games beginning today. Here are your scores. Good luck on your brackets folks and good luck to the teams!

1. UW-Milwaukee defeated (6) Oklahoma 82 to 74.
2. Boston College slid by Pacific in double-over-time 88 to 76. (Thanks for getting your act together BC, I know a lot of brackets would have been screwed (royally) by your loss.
   
3. Montana won over favored Nevada 87-79.
4. Florida killed South Alabama 76 to 50.
5. Alabama held out to win over Marquette 90 to 85.
6. UCLA destroyed 15th seed Belmont 76 to 42.
7. Tennessee screached by Winthrop (a former women's college) 63 to 61.
8. Wichita State man-handled Seton Hall by 20, finishing 86 to 66
9. UNC-W(ilmington) v George Washington GW wins 88 to 85 in over-time. (GW was down by 18-points and came back to bring the score within two-points (79-77) with 22.1 seconds left UNC-W's DJ Carter fouled Colonial Elliott while he was taking a 3-point shot. He made his first and second free-throws, missed his second and UNC-W had a chance to end the game, but missed. A flick pass down the court to Rice for two but alas the light went off before the ball left his hand. The Game is now in over-time. (Second update-25.8 seconds left) UNC-W is down by 1-point 86 to 85, Elliott was just fouled and is headed to the line. Elliott makes his first shot, missed his second. UNC-W went for the basket but Rice knocked it out, the Seahawks fouled Elliott. (second verse same as the first) and the Seahawks had a chance to throw up a 3-pointer but missed.
   
10. Iona v LSU
11. Xavier v Gonzaga: the Bulldogs win 79 to 75! (Game notes: Gonzaga trailed most of the evening until Adam Morrison stepped up, scoring 34-points and hitting 8 of 10 from the foul-line.)
    
12. Air Force v Illinois
13. Southern U v Duke
    
14. Texas A&M v Syracuse
15. San Diego State v Indiana
16. Utah State v Washington

The Bushido will update as the evening progresses. I am sorry I didn't have Bushido updates for the earlier games, but I was working and my side-kick HRH was hogging the smart-box.