NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Round of 64 Day 1 – Afternoon

Last night the Play-ins for the East and West Divisions that will start tomorrow finished with a couple of tight games and one that went to OT.

West

#16 Norfolk State (16 – 7) 54 – Appalachian State (17 – 12) 53

#11 Witchita State (16 – 5} 52 – #11 Drake ((25 – 4) 53

East

#16 Texas Southern (16 – 8) 60 – Mount St. Mary’s (12 – 10) 52

#11 UCLA (27 – 9) 86 – #11 Michigan State (15 -13) 80 OT

Needless to say, the Michigan St. loss was disappointing after leading through most of the game, fell in OT. The two West games were nail biters  with Drake a surprise win over Wichita St. that at one point in the game has a double digit lead..

Now we begin the games in earnest.  There are 8 games in the afternoon and 8 in the evening , The NCAA has frozen the fields, meaning, if a team drops out for any reason, its opponent will automatically advance. The same will hold for the Women when they start on Sunday. The coronavirus will be a persistent threat to upend the two marquee events of college sports.

 

Time Network Seed School Record Seed School Record Region
12:15 CBS 10 Virginia Tech 15 – 6 7 Florida * 14 – 9 South
12:45 TruTV 14 Colgate 14 – 1 3 Arkansas * 22 – 6 South
1:15 TBS 16 Drexel      12 – 7 1 Illinois * 23 – 6 Midwest
1:45 TNT 11 Utah St. 20 – 8 6 Texas Tech * 17 – 10 South
3:00 CBS 15 Oral Roberts * 16 – 10 2 Ohio St. 21 – 9 South
3:30 TruTV 16 Hartford 15 – 8 1 Baylor * 22 – 2 South
4:00 TBS 9 Georgia Tech 17 – 8 8 Loyola Chicago * 24 – 4 Midwest
4:30 TNT 12 Oregon St. * 17 – 8 5 Tennessee 18 – 8 Midwest

* indicates the winner

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