NCAA Tournament Open Thread: New Mexico And BYU In Action

by Jeremy Mauss on Mar 20, 2010 9:45 AM PDT in Basketball

All right there will just be one post for the open threading which will include all of today's games with focus on BYU and New Mexico. As always you can watch any game via this link from

NCAA^®March Madness on Demand^{® Or with the widget below. Here is a short preview on all the games from our resident Bracketologist.}

1:05 p.m. ET (South: Providence) No. 10 St. Mary's (27-5) vs. No. 2 Villanova (25-7)

3:20 p.m. ET (West: San Jose) No. 13 Murray State (31-4) vs. No. 5 Butler (29-4)

3:35 p.m. ET approx. (Midwest: Providence) No. 14 Ohio (22-14) vs. No. 6 Tennessee (26-8)

5:40 p.m. ET (Midwest: Oklahoma City) No. 9 Northern Iowa (29-4) vs. No. 1 Kansas (33-2)

5:45 p.m. ET (South: New Orleans) No. 11 Old Dominion (27-8) vs. No. 3 Baylor (26-7)

5:50 p.m. ET approx. (East: San Jose) No. 11 Washington (25-9) vs. No. 3 New Mexico (30-4)

UNM's Darrington Hobson has a hurt wrist.

8:10 p.m. ET approx. (West: Oklahoma City) No. 7 BYU (30-5) vs. No. 2 Kansas State (27-7)

More previews for BYU vs. K-State. Vanquish The Foe and Mountain West Connection

8:15 p.m. ET approx. (East: New Orleans) No. 9 Wake Forest (20-10) vs. No. 1 Kentucky (33-2)

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ST. Marys

taking to ’Nova early

Mountain West Connection

by Jeremy Mauss on Mar 20, 2010 10:47 AM PDT reply actions

what a finish to game one

Mountain West Connection

by Jeremy Mauss on Mar 20, 2010 12:08 PM PDT reply actions

Can Murray St. win again?

I don’t think so.

by rockies17_4 on Mar 20, 2010 1:02 PM PDT reply actions

Murray Stat

Does not even get a shot off. wow

Mountain West Connection

by Jeremy Mauss on Mar 20, 2010 3:11 PM PDT reply actions

Lobos and Kansas Down

Mountain West Connection

by Jeremy Mauss on Mar 20, 2010 3:42 PM PDT reply actions

four point play!

Come on Lobos.

Mountain West Connection

by Jeremy Mauss on Mar 20, 2010 3:51 PM PDT reply actions

UNI taking it to Kansas

Mountain West Connection

by Jeremy Mauss on Mar 20, 2010 4:12 PM PDT reply actions

I'm gonna ask this seriously since you guys have been so nice to me...

but is UNM normally this bad. They seem to live and die with the perimeter game more than MU, and that played right into UW’s strengths.

The Big East is now 1-3 so far - Greg Gumble

by B Money on Mar 20, 2010 4:36 PM PDT reply actions

They have overachieved all season. This is the type of problem everyone expected them to have at the beginning of the year and why a team like SDSU is difficult for them. However, this is worse than they played against Oral Roberts. Hobson is not active, for some reason they don’t want to move the ball as much as they usually do and the pressure defense is non-existent. That plays into anyone’s strengths, but especially a team with big men.

I'm a Rebel, but I bleed the cherry and silver of the Lobos.

by Role Player on Mar 20, 2010 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions

I'll admit that I've only actually watched New Mexico twice, when they played my team.

But I have followed their scores all season. Especially in the last couple months, they’ve really been playing down to their opponents, struggling at times against subpar teams. But they’ve also played well against better opponents, so I don’t know. I do think they were probably a tad overseeded, but not egregiously.

by holly96 on Mar 20, 2010 4:42 PM PDT up reply actions

cal proved me wrong. they played a great game with a suspended starter and 3000 miles of travel.

since kansas lost i hope they can beat syracuse. now it’s a west coast thing imo. just beat the east. congrats to washington too. they are peaking at right time. i’m sure glad i got west virginia to win it all.

I'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. I was building a house, I don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. Bang. "Unforgiven" I drink your milkshake. I drink it up! "There Will BE Blood"

by wolfmanshowlforever on Mar 20, 2010 5:42 PM PDT up reply actions