12th seed Cornell beat number 5 Temple by 13 points. They went on to face number 4 seed Wisconsin last night and won again but by a bigger gap, 18 points. They will now face the top seed in the Eastern Bracket, Kentucky this weekend.
10th seed St. Marys beat out 7th seeded Richmond then went on to face the 2 seed Villinova in a game where people thought 'Nova could take the win. They were wrong as St. Mary's behind a tremendous effort by big man Omar Samhan's 34 points beat 'Nova 75-68. They are going to face 3 seed Baylor later in the week.
The Washington Huskies are the 11th seed that has pulled upsets of its own in the Eastern Bracket as well. They defeated 6th seeded Marquette and then went on to blow out 3 seeded New Mexico by a final score of 82-64.
Last but not least 9th seeded Northern Iowa first beat 9th seeded UNLV then did the impossible by taking out the top seed in the Midwest Bracket and a team a lot of people chose to win it all, The Kansas Jayhawks by a score of 69 to 67. They are slated to face 5th seed Michigan State later on in the week and with the possibility that Michigan St. best player Kalin Lucas being out for the rest of the tournament after injuring his leg against Maryland, Northern Iowa could find themselves in the Elite 8 come next week.
The outlook for the Sweet 16 is as followed.
Thursday: #1 Syracuse vs #5 Butler at 7pm, #11 Washington vs #2 West Virginia at 7 30pm, #6 Xavier vs # 2 Kansas State at 9 30pm and lastly #12 Cornell vs #1 Kentucky at 10pm.
Friday: #6 Tennessee vs #2 Ohio State at 7pm, #10 St. Mary's vs #3 Baylor at 7 30pm, #9 Northern Iowa vs #5 Michigan State at 9 30pm and finally #4 Purdue vs #1 Duke.
All games can be seen on CBS and I promise you folks, when it comes down to this time of the year rankings don't matter. Northern Iowa, Washington, Cornell and St. Mary's are perfect examples why
-Kujtim 'Timmy' Dimas
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