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Jason Carmel Davis is a copy editor/page designer with the Oakland Press and Heritage Newspapers. Davis has also written a number of offbeat sports columns for other publications, as he has an unhealthy obsession with all things athletics. It's so unhealthy that he has planned the births of his (future) children around Bowl Season, the Super Bowl, the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament and the NBA and NFL drafts.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

March Madness Day I: Best first day in years

Murray St., a 13 seed that won 30 games in the regular season, just drained a buzzer beater to upset fourth seed in the West Vanderbilt, 66-65.

This has easily been the best first day of the tournament in a while. So far today, we've had a two seed pushed to OT before winning after Villanova played 40 minutes as bad as most people look in their driver's license pictures; we've had a double OT thriller (BYU 99, Florida 92) where three guards put on a scoring show, including one - BYU's Michael Loyd Jr. - who averaged a shade under 5 points a game scoring 26 in the win; we've had two double digit seeds advance with another, Sam Houston State, looking to add its name to that group, as the 14th seeded Bearkats are down just four to three seed Baylor, 55-55, with 2 minutes left due in part to SHS's solid matchup zone.

The first four completed games have been decided by a total of 12 points, with seven of those coming in BYU's win.

This is why this tournament is the best thing in sports.

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