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Just a great, great weekend of basketball... Bradley and George Mason shock the world, Georgetown and Wichita State pull off predictable upsets, the four #1 seeds survive (but UConn is shaky), Florida looks strong to quite strong and the round of 16 features amazing matchups like Duke-LSU, WVU-Texas, Gonzaga-UCLA, UConn-Washington, 'Nova-BC and Florida-G'town. For now, we have four days to think about it, and, fortunately, a break from CBS's constant barrage of crappy commercials.

 Mason!

Speaking of CBS, was anyone else force-fed the UCLA-Alabama game on Saturday night rather than Gonzaga-Indiana? In DC they showed the UCLA game even though the Gonzaga game was more evenly matched and higher interest. So I tried to watch Gonzaga on SportsLine only to have it blacked out because it was supposed to be my local game. Total pisser. The real kick in the pants was that Chris informs me that CBS was showing Gonzaga where he was watching -- just five miles away in Arlington, VA. So frustrating.

Related: AOL has a second-chance challege game, basically a bracket contest for the Sweet 16. Not a bad way to get back in the game if you had Kansas, UNC, etc. going far in the Tournament.

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• #6 Comment from jmoney2604 
  3/21/06 2:49 PM | Permalink

  CBS is covering all those games no one else shelled out the money to produce them so they tried to get in all the games but what going to be interesing is to see george mason upset uconn and be in the final four that would be a cinderelle story
• #5 Comment from elkramer2 
  3/20/06 3:26 PM | Permalink

  CBS WAS SO SCREWED UP IT SHOWED ALL OF SEVEN MINS. OF THE UCONN/KENTUCKY GAME
• #4 Comment from georgecoztanza 
  3/20/06 11:02 AM | Permalink

  "I would've LOVED to have gotten the Mega March Madness package for opening weekend but it wasn't available on Comcast cable (at least to my knowledge). Bummer."
  
  Should have gotten MMOD. It worked pretty well for me. It also didn't cost anything.
• #3 Comment from dcsportsguyEntry Author 
  3/20/06 10:46 AM | Permalink

  I would've LOVED to have gotten the Mega March Madness package for opening weekend but it wasn't available on Comcast cable (at least to my knowledge). Bummer.
• #2 Comment from sportzassassin 
  3/20/06 2:33 AM | Permalink

  By the way....I am in 2nd place in the SBL Bracket Pool....with 7 of my Elite 8 still alive....and ALL of my Final Four teams.   And while this may be the upset bracket....I still feel the favorites will rise to the top
  
  -Sportz
  SportzAssassin.com