2009 NCAA Basketball Roundup

With the 2009 NCAA March Madness underway, the 2009 tournament provided us with blowouts, upsets, and nail-biters in an interesting first day of results that has rattled the NCAA brackets. Scroll to the bottom for the latest results.

South Region:

Western Kentucky provided the first big upset knocking off the fifth seeded Illinois in a 76-72 thrilling victory. The Hilltoppers now face another tough task in Gonzaga who took down Akron 77-64. Akron was poised to provide the NCAA with the tournament's first upset leading 49-43, but Gonzaga found a way to come back and rally past the Zips.

Other NCAA scores saw Michigan beating Clemson 62-59, Oklahoma breezing by Morgan State 82-54, LSU over Butler, and North Carolina blowing out the Radford Highlanders 101-58 wrapping up first day of competition in the South.

An ugly incident occurred in the Oklahoma and Morgan State game when Blake Griffin of the Oklahoma Sooners was flipped by Ameer Ali who was ejected for his efforts. Blake Griffin was not badly hurt but says he felt some pain in his tailbone and should be ready for the next game. The latest Blake Griffin flip is part of a regular occurence of players playing hard against him with Southern California's Leonard Washington hitting him below the belt back in December.

East Region:

The other NCAA standing in the East have the UCLA Bruins beat VCU in a nail-biter 65-64 with VCU failing to convert with 11.6 seconds left. The sixth seed UCLA now faces the third seed Villanova. Not surprisingly, Minnesota and Binghamton both lost their respective games against Duke and Texas who will face each other in the second round on March 21. 

West Region:

No major upsets in the West with Purdue over Northern Iowa, Washington downing Mississippi State, and Memphis beating CSU Northridge. Upsets concerning the standings have the tenth seed Maryland overtaking California and the nineth seed Texas A&M over BYU. Another blowout in the first day of the NCAA tournament have Connecticut trouncing over Chattanooga.

The first day of the 2009 NCAA tournament did not disappoint March Madness fans. The Midwest Region was idle on the first day of play with the thrilling actions continuing on March 20.

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Update:

The NCAA basketball scores for the second day of action will wrap up the bracket for the first round. 

Completed games have Oklahoma State defeating Tennessee in a thriller with Byron Eaton completing a three point play with 7.2 seconds left to secure the victory for Oklahoma State. 

Other completed games have Kansas over North Dakota State 84-74 in the Midwest Region and Syracuse taking down SFA in the South Region. The West region has the Marquette Golden Eagles sneaking by Utah State 58-57.

Day 2 of the NCAA tournament also saw a major upset in the Dayton Flyers up-ending West Virginia 68-60 in afternoon action. Missouri, Arizona State, and Pittsburgh all won their respective games against the lower seeded Cornell, Temple, and East Tennessee State.

Action continues throughout the day with the final game at 9:50pm ET with the fifteenth seed Robert Morris facing the second seed, Michigan State. CBS NCAA is providing live streaming videos of first round action.

NCAA Basketball Bracket

With the first round of matchups ending, the second round of NCAA March Madness basketball is to be played on March 21 and 22. The second round bracket has from the

West Region:

Connecticut vs. Texas A&M

Purdue vs. Washington

Marquette vs. Missouri

Maryland vs. Memphis

South Region:

North Carolina vs. LSU

West Kentucky vs. Gonzaga

Arizona State vs. Syracuse

Michigan vs. Oklahoma