Games keep on rolling

Number 1 seeded Pittsburgh looked like it was going to have another struggle on their hands as they were tied at the half with Oklahoma State. The Panthers asserted themselves over the Cowboys in the second half on their way to an 84-76 win. Fields had 13 points and 9 assists to compliment Blair's double-double of 10 points 12 boards for Pitt. The star of the game was Sam Young for the Panthers who dropped 32 points and collected 8 rebounds and 3 blocks on the game. Oklahoma State was balanced in their point production having 5 players in double figures...unfortunately those were the only 5 players that scored for the team. Pittsburgh will play Xavier in the sweet 16 as the Musketeers took down Wisconsin today as well.

Wisconsin put up another good effort trying to advance again after many doubted their even being in the field. The final score was 60-49 in favor of Xavier, however. Xavier will be hard pressed to tackle the top ranked Panthers in the next round.

Upstate New York continues to party as Syracuse's run in the tournament continues. The Orangemen took down the Arizona State Sun Devils 78-67 today. The zone that Syracuse employs forced the Sun Devils to shoot from the outside often. Ty Abbot and Rihards Kuksiks both hit 6 three pointers for ASU but James Hardin and Derek Glasser missed all 10 of their combined attempts. Abbot and Rihards both finished with 20 points each. Eric Devendorf paced the Orange with his 21 points and the team had a total of 5 players in double figures to secure the win. Syracuse will attempt to keep up with the Griffin's and Oklahoma in their sweet 16 match-up next week.

Bringing some good news to the state of Arizona is that of the university's Wildcats. Arizona beat Cleveland State 71-57 and never looked back after crafting a 10 point halftime lead. Cleveland State's bid for a sweet 16 spot was denied by a team many believe to be the last at large team invited to the tournament. Nice Wise lead all scorers with 21 on the game for the Wildcats. Arizona will face the winner of the Louisville versus Siena game to be played in today's nightcap.

Another perennial tournament terror moved on today as well. Kansas had little trouble dispatching the Dayton Flyers by a final of 60-43. Cole Aldrich continues his absurdly dominate play throwing in a triple double today that included 10 blocks to go along with his 13 points and 200 rebounds. Yowza! Aldrich will lead his Jayhawks into battle against the winner of the Michigan State and USC game being played as I type.

Games being played right now are Marquette and Missouri in addition to the afformentioned USC and MSU game. Marquette got their star point guard (James) back tonight which would be a huge lift for them against a very tough Missouri team. Should be a good game either way.

Siena versus Louisville was scheduled to tip off at 5:20pm EST (2:20pm PST) but tipped a bit late of that. They are less than a minute underway in that game. Louisville shouldn't have any problems smothering the Saints of Siena with their high pressure defense.