Elite Eight action concludes this afternoon & evening. Here are your match-ups:

Sweet Sixteen action concludes this evening. Here are your match-ups (winners in bold):

Sweet Sixteen action tips off this evening.  Here are your match-ups:

Sixteen teams play for the remaining eight Sweet Sixteen spots next weekend. Winners in bold.

The first round of of March Madness 2010 is in the books and we’re down to 32 teams left.  The winners head to the Sweet 16 next weekend. The losers head home until next season.  Winners are in bold.

College basketball fans, it’s that time of year again!  March Madness 2010 is in and you should have your brackets filled out by now.  Here are today’s games, for the first round, first day.  Winners in bold.

Via ESPN

“ESPN’s second annual College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon — featuring 12 consecutive live college basketball games in 24 hours Tuesday on ESPN — will include extensive coverage across the ESPN platforms to celebrate the beginning of the 2009-10 season. ESPN games will tip off every two hours, starting at midnight ET with Cal State Fullerton at UCLA.”

I somehow missed this one last year, but the idea sounds interesting. I’ll have to pass on those middle of the night games though.

Via WIBC:

NCAA president and former Indiana University president Myles Brand has died at age 67. Brand had been battling pancreatic cancer.

In many people’s minds, at least around Indiana, Myles Brand will always go down as the guy who butted heads with Bobby Knight.  Over at the NCAA Brand had a pretty uneventful tenure other than your normal nonsense of cheating/violations.

Here are the 2008 NCAA Final Four matchups. All games are on CBS and played in the Alamodome (San Antonio, TX).

Saturday, April 5, 2008
6:07 pm EDT (1) UCLA (35-3) vs. (1) Memphis (37-1)
8:47 pm EDT (1) Kansas (35-3) vs. (1) North Carolina (36-2)

Monday, April 7, 2008
9:11 pm EDT (1) North Carolina / (1) Kansas vs. (1) Memphis / (1) UCLA

So we’re still in line for my Memphis over North Carolina prediction in the final.

While this is the first time four number ones made the finals and many are praising the selection committee for that, overall I can’t agree. Yes, you probably have the four best regular season teams, but teams like Davidson and Butler were clearly better than their seedings (just to name a few). Yes, they want the “Cinderella” story line. I get that. And yes, it’s a drawn out task to select 65 teams within the selection guidelines. But when teams should clearly be seeded substantially higher it would seem that something funny is going on or that someone doesn’t know what they’re doing. But what do I know? I don’t even really care about basketball except for tourney time.