March Madness recap: With one day to go until the Sweet 16 is decided, the NCAA Tournament is off to a historic, upset-riddled start (College Basketball 03/22)
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🗓️ 22 March 2021
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Summary
Here were Sunday's upsets:
No. 15 Oral Roberts beat No. 7 Florida to become the second 15 in history to make the Sweet 16.
No. 12 Oregon State upset No. 4 Oklahoma State to reach its first Sweet 16 since 1982.
No. 11 Syracuse upset No. 3 West Virginia, improving the program's record to 9-2 in the tournament as a double-digit seed, the best win percentage in history.
No. 8 Loyola Chicago upset No. 1 Illinois in the first game of the day.
Beyond that: Baylor and Villanova took care of business, Arkansas reached its first Sweet 16 since 1996 and Houston ripped away a win from Rutgers in devastating fashion. GP and Norlander touch on all of that, and preview Monday's eight games, right now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Perish. It's Monday, March 22, 2021. Welcome back to the CBS Sports |
| 0:10.7 | I own college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss, Camel fighting, Dodo |
| 0:14.9 | Birds and Leaky Black Matt. Norlander is here with me. When I say it's Monday, I mean, |
| 0:18.7 | technically Monday, but it's essentially late Sunday nights, 12.50 a.m. Eastern. I've |
| 0:23.8 | been on CBS Sports Network all day. Norlander's been on CBS Sports HQ all day. Now that we're |
| 0:29.0 | done and all of Sunday's games have been completed. We are here to talk through the third full |
| 0:33.4 | day of the 2021 NCAA tournament as a wild that will be remembered for a number one seed |
| 0:39.9 | losing to an in state opponent and for three double digit seeds advancing to the sweet 16. |
| 0:45.1 | We'll get to top seed Illinois losing the loyal Chicago in a bit, but I want to start with |
| 0:49.6 | the double digit seeds that won on Sunday. Number 11 Syracuse upset number three West Virginia, |
| 0:55.1 | Jim Bayhine against all odds is in the sweet 16 number 12 Oregon State upset number four |
| 1:00.8 | Oklahoma State Wayne Tinkle against all odds is in the sweet 16 and number 15 oral Roberts |
| 1:07.3 | upset number seven Florida Paul Mills against all odds is in the sweet 16 dead leg. Make sense |
| 1:14.1 | of this. What in the world is going on in Indiana? You want me to make sense of this? |
| 1:19.1 | No shot. I need you to make sense. I can't make sense of this. I'm not going to make |
| 1:23.8 | any sense of this. It's been a gloriously chaotic and we are knocking on the door of |
| 1:30.9 | historic NCAA tournament. So with these upsets in addition to others, first of all, eight |
| 1:38.9 | teams from eight separate leagues are now into the sweet 16 and we'll get the other eight |
| 1:42.5 | obviously on Monday. The most is 12. We'll see if that could if that could happen. Also, |
| 1:50.6 | we have had so the NCAA and Shabby Warlock who's obviously the media coordinator of all |
| 1:55.7 | the stuff. He tweeted this about 25 minutes before we started podcasting. He said we'd |
| 1:59.4 | define an upset as a team seated five spots or more lower than their opponent. We've already |
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