March Madness recap: Thoughts on the first day of the first round of the NCAA Tournament (College Basketball 03/20)
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 20 March 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
It feels glorious to have this amazing tournament back. And we had some history on Friday. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander recap Friday's action -- with some bonus First Four thoughts at the end -- so be sure to dig in before the second half of the first round resumes Saturday afternoon just after 12 p.m. ET.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there it's Gary Parrish. It's Saturday, March 20th, 2021. Welcome back to the CVS Sports |
| 0:13.8 | Ion College basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss Kamil fighting, Dodo Birds, |
| 0:18.5 | Ann Leaky, Black Matt, Norlander is here with me and when I say it's Saturday, I mean, |
| 0:22.6 | it is technically Saturday but it's essentially late Friday night. It is at this moment 12 |
| 0:28.1 | 58 AM Eastern. I've been on CVS Sports Network all day. Norlander has been on CVS Sports HQ all day. |
| 0:36.2 | Now that we're done and all the Friday's games are done, we decided to get together, talk through |
| 0:40.6 | the first full day of the 2021 NCAA tournament for a few minutes and what a day it was. We had a |
| 0:46.5 | 15 over a 2. We had a 13 over a 4. We had a 12 over a 5. We had an 11 over a 6. We had a 10 over |
| 0:54.6 | a 7. We had a 9 over an 8. There were 16 games played. The higher seated teams only went 10 and |
| 1:01.1 | 6. Both number one seats cruised. Three of the 16 games went to overtime. Madness indeed deadleg. |
| 1:07.5 | Before we get too specific, let me ask you this. How much fun was the first full day of the 2021 |
| 1:14.8 | NCAA tournament? Just wonderful to have this event back in our lives. As expected, no huge surprise. |
| 1:21.4 | Just fan-freaking-tastic to get back into this kind of groove here. We're in different spots. I'm at |
| 1:28.0 | home. God bless my wife and children. I tried to get my older son into it for a little but he's |
| 1:34.1 | just not feeling it yet. He's five years old. That's fine. We did bracket picks earlier than day. |
| 1:38.4 | He did have oral Roberts and North Texas winning by the way. Good on my older son there. He's |
| 1:44.5 | not yet. He knows what college basketball isn't what I got to do. He was definitely like, I want |
| 1:49.0 | to go play outside. Good on him. I was a question to my office for pretty much the entire afternoon |
| 1:54.1 | and evening and ordering pizza because my deep dish is not yet here. It is ordered and I had |
| 2:03.4 | shipped. I had it shipped to your home but I didn't have it shipped to Matt Norlander. It is legit. |
| 2:09.2 | Handle my heart. It's been shipped to deadleg, Norlander. If this is caused any sort of delay in |
| 2:15.0 | shipping, it's going to be probably going to be held at bay. Hopefully it arrives by tomorrow but |
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