Thursday, March 16, 2023

RESULTS: First Round, Day 1 Results from NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championships.


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PASADENA, TEXAS (March 16, 2023) The first slate of 16 games in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championships are completed My predictions saw 11 correct outcomes with five of my selections fall. The results of these games are below, broken down by correct predictions and five upsets (By MY picks. They are underlined).

CORRECT PREDICTIONS

No. 7 Missouri 76,  No. 10 Utah State 65  
No. 1 Kansas 86,  No. 16 Howard 58 
No. 1 Alabama 96, Texas A&M Corpus Christi 74  
No. 5 San Diego State 63, No. 12 College of Charleston  57 
No. 8 Arkansas 73,  No. 9 Illinois 63  
No. 5 Duke  74, No. 12 Oral Roberts 51  
No. 2 Texas  81,  No. 15 Colgate 61  
No. 7 Northwestern 75,  No. 10 Boise State 67  
No. 1 Houston 63,  No. 16 Northern Kentucky 52  
No. 4 Tennessee 58, No. 13 Louisiana 55  
No. 2 UCLA 86, No. 15 UNC Asheville 53  

UPSETS
No. 9 West Virginia  65,  8 Maryland  67  
No. 4 Virginia 67,  No. 13 Furman 68 
No. 2 Arizona  55, No. 15 Princeton 59 
No. 8 Iowa 75,  No. 9 Auburn 83  
No. 7 Texas A&M 59,  No. 10 Penn State 76  

The biggest upset of the day was No. 15 Princeton knocking off No. 2 Arizona by the score of 68-67. The last time the Tigers won a NCAA Tournament was 1998, when they defeated UNLV 69-57 in the first round.


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