Mar 15 2011

NCAA Basketball Tournament 2011

Welcome to the start of March Madness.

First a little meta.  This was incredibly difficult to research and format so I’ve had to put some other projects on hold.  Future editions should be easier.  The Team link goes to the Men’s Basketball page, the Record link to their full record page including teams played and scores.  If I’m a little off on the numbers it’s because some of the formats are hard to count and I might have missed an exhibition game here and there.

It’s arranged chronologically.  For a more traditional bracket try CBS Sports.  Each game can be watched in it’s entirety on the network listed, no switching except with your remote.

You might think there are 72 teams in the Tournament, but you would be counting the 4 slots for the Play Ins twice.  Those are all on True, 2 tonight and 2 tomorrow.  It has certainly been confusing to get the game times and networks, CBS has been posting them a scant 36 hours in advance.

Another problem with the Play Ins are the splits.  The East gets 2 and the West gets none?  And what about the seedings?  One of the Play Ins in the East gets a 12 seed and the one in the Southwest an 11!  If you are going to seed these losers that high why the hell didn’t you put them in the bracket to begin with?  This is somewhat mitigated by the fact that there were a lot of ‘automatic bid’ flukes as you can see by examining the records.  Finally Alabama State has a losing record.  Win The Future?

I’ll be rooting for Syracuse and after they fail at the foul line as they always do and did in the Big East Tournament any other Big East team and will have reasonably good prospects of having someone to root for at the end because they have 11 teams in the Tournament.

If you don’t like squeeky shoes you can look for alternate programming here-

Really great table below.

Date Time Network Seed Team Record Seed Team Record Region
3/15 6:30 pm True 16 UNC-Asheville 19 – 13 16 Ark.-Little Rock 19 – 16 Southeast
3/15 9 pm True 12 UAB 23 – 7 12 Clemson 22 – 11 East
3/16 6:30 pm True 16 UT-San Antonio 19 – 13 16 Alabama St. 16 – 17 East
3/16 9 pm True 11 USC 20 – 13 11 Virginia Commonwealth 23 – 11 Southwest
3/17 12:15 pm CBS 5 West Virginia 20 – 11 12 Round 1 #2 East
3/17 12:40 pm True 8 Butler 23 – 9 9 Old Dominion 30 – 6 Southeast
3/17 1:40 pm TBS 4 Louisville 27 – 9 13 Morehead St. 24 – 9 Southwest
3/17 2:10 pm TNT 7 Temple 25 – 7 10 Penn St. 20 – 14 West
3/17 2:45 pm CBS 4 Kentucky 31 – 8 13 Princeton 25 – 6 East
3/17 3:10 pm True 1 Pittsburgh 30 – 5 16 Round 1 #4 Southeast
3/17 4:10 pm TBS 5 Vanderbilt 23 – 10 12 Richmond 27 – 7 Southwest
3/17 4:40 pm TNT 2 San Diego St. 33 – 2 15 No. Colorado 21 – 10 West
3/17 6:50 pm TBS 2 Florida 28 – 7 10 UC Santa Barbara 19 – 13 Southeast
3/17 7:15 pm CBS 3 BYU 32 – 4 14 Wofford 21 – 12 Southeast
3/17 7:20 pm TNT 3 Connecticut 28 – 9 14 Bucknell 25 – 8 West
3/17 7:27 pm True 4 Wisconsin 24 – 8 13 Belmont 30 – 4 Southeast
3/17 9:20 pm TBS 7 UCLA 24 – 10 10 Michigan St. 21 – 14 Southeast
3/17 9:45 pm CBS 6 St. John’s 22 – 11 11 Gonzaga 27 – 7 Southeast
3/17 9:50 pm TNT 6 Cincinnati 27 – 8 11 Missouri 25 – 10 West
3/17 9:57 pm True 5 Kansas St. 24 – 10 12 Utah St. 35 – 3 Southeast
3/18 12:15 pm CBS 4 Texas 28 – 7 13 Oakland 26 – 9 West
3/18 12:40 pm True 8 Michigan 20 – 13 9 Tennessee 20 – 15 West
3/18 1:40 pm TBS 2 Notre Dame 28 – 6 15 Akron 24 – 12 Southwest
3/18 2:10 pm TNT 8 George Mason 28 – 5 9 Villanova 22 – 11 East
3/18 2:45 pm CBS 5 Arizona 28 – 7 12 Memphis 27 – 9 West
3/18 3:10 pm True 1 Duke 32 – 4 16 Hampton 24 – 8 West
3/18 4:10 pm TBS 7 Texas A&M 25 – 8 10 Florida St. 23 – 10 Southwest
3/18 4:40 pm TNT 1 Ohio St. 33 – 2 16 Round 1 #1 East
3/18 6:50 pm TBS 1 Kansas 34 – 2 16 Boston U. 21 – 13 Southwest
3/18 7:15 pm CBS 2 North Carolina 27 – 7 15 Long Island 27 – 5 East
3/18 7:20 pm TNT 3 Purdue 27 – 7 14 St. Peter’s 20 – 13 Southwest
3/18 7:27 pm True 6 Xavier 25 – 8 11 Marquette 21 – 14 East
3/18 9:20 pm TBS 8 UNLV 26 – 8 9 Illinois 21 – 13 Southwest
3/18 9:45 pm CBS 7 Washington 24 – 10 10 Georgia 22 – 11 East
3/18 9:50 pm TNT 6 Georgetown 21 – 10 11 Round 1 #3 Southwest
3/18 9:57 pm True 3 Syracuse 26 – 7 14 Indiana St. 22 – 13 East

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  3. Putting History and Pundits to bed. 😉

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  6. 43 – 27

  8. It wasn’t as close as that.

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