The Madness: One Day in

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Ja Morant – Murray State PG

The tournament is now in full swing and everyone is loving it. We haven’t yet seen a huge upset, but there have been many close games and great basketball. A big story of yesterday’s games was the performance of Murray State PG Ja Morant. He dropped a triple double and led his team over Markus Howard and Marquette, who I believed would win that game (for some reason I had them in the Final 4). Honestly, I had never seen Morant play, so I thought there was a chance Murray State was all hype and he was the only solid player on his team, but I was proved wrong along with many others. It would be super interesting to see if Murray State can go on a run and Ja Morant can further prove he is the real deal against the best of the best. In other tournament news, Syracuse lost to Baylor, which I was really upset about as I am a huge fan and watched the whole game. It was a very frustrating game and it really hurt that Syracuse PG Frank Howard got suspended indefinitely because of a failed drug test, talk about letting your team down.  I really wanted to see Syracuse match up with Gonzaga, but unfortunately we wont see that for a while. Speaking of Gonzaga, they looked like the strongest team that played yesterday and I think it will be interesting to how they fair in the rest of the tournament. As for who I am rooting for now that ‘Cuse is out, I want to see Buffalo do some damage because my dad went there, but realistically I want to see either Tennessee or Gonzaga win. Only teams I’m rooting against are the Blue Bloods (UK, Duke, UNC), although I think Duke has the best chance. But the unexpected always seems to happen in March and we all know he rest of the tournament is going to only get better. Nonetheless, let’s hope to see some madness.

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