Game 1; and a Prediction

It's official - the 2009 NCAA Tournament has begun!

In the opening round game, Morehead State took down Alabama State 58-43 in a less-than-entertaining match-up.

But here's my theory:

I've always said that if a #1 seed ever gets beat - it'll be to a team that plays in the play-in game. My thinking is that that team will not have had a 5+ day lay-off from playing, and might catch a team coming out cold. (Also, the last two seeds are often teams that played terrible in the year and won their conference tourney - so they could have a player or two that miraculously came into their own over the last month of play - - short deviation: a buddy of mine, after his senior year of high school, played in an all-star game after the season, and out of nowhere started dunking all over the Gym. No one saw it coming - not even him... now translate that into a college squad finally finding their rhythm. Could it happen? Eh... Maybe.

But back to the upset: This year is a special year: The play-in game is being played in Dayton - the same site as the 1 Louisville vs 16 Morehead State match-up. I'm not saying... I'm just saying... Morehead State HAS played one more game in that gym than Louisville this week.... could it translate into upste city for the first time for Number 16?