I mean, not a bad way for the tournament to kick off last night.

Both games coming down to the final shot of the game two.

Very exciting games.

And Howard gets, as you just heard, their first ever men's NCAA tournament

win holding on for Dear Life.

Man, they were up by 11 with two minutes to go,

and they ended up forcing a pretty wild three-point attempt from about 34 feet away and held

on for a three-point win. I was very happy about that. Smell Test Pick number one in the books with a W. Howard 86, UMBC, 83.

Good morning, everybody.

The NCAA tournament underway with the first four.

Two more games tonight.

Let me just mention up front, no smell test pick for either game tonight. I am looking

forward to watching Miami of Ohio against SMU. And there is a lot of public action on Miami of Ohio.

There's also a lot of sharp action on Miami of Ohio. We'll see if they can sort of back up that incredible

regular season with at least an effort in which

they've got a chance to win. Man, they've been so close down the stretch in all of their

Mac games, their Mid-American Conference games, they were lucky to lose just one of those games.

They trailed many of them down the stretch, but seemed to have a recipe at the end for winning.

See, there's some drama tonight in the first four.

Miami of Ohio's sort of controversial bid,

although I think it would have been, you know,

egregious if they had been left out.

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