The higher seeded team in all four games on Friday played poorly. Yeah, that crumpled piece of paper you saw lofting across my office being chased by a stream of cursing was my bracket.
Each of these games warrants a closer look but I think the one that stands out to me was the Vanderbilt train wreck.
Siena matched up well against the Commodores and I expected a good basketball game. What I saw was a team that gave up at halftime. I went to grad school at Vandy and watching a team that I have followed for years come out so flat in the second half was disheartening.
The things that have always been the trademark of Vanderbilt basketball; discipline and perimeter shooting were both absent. Siena went to the line 25 times where they promptly sunk 88%. On the other hand the Commodores shot an amazingly horrible 20% from three-point range and 66% from the line.
Siena did exactly the opposite and now has only Villanova between them and the Sweet 16.
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