[Cactus Jack]

Cal struggled when Kansas went zone-- announcers said the Jayhawks had only played something like 16 possessions of zone all season.

UC San Diego did not get any whistles against Michigan. If the game were called the same on both ends, we'd probably have had a different result. Wish more of the nation would have gotten to see another game from the Tritons. Leading scorer Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones' old man at the YMCA game would have given him NCAA Tournament folk-hero status if he'd have been able to play more minutes; each of his last two fouls were pretty iffy calls. Plenty of non-whistles against Michigan underneath that looked pretty bad as well.

Houston had the most impressive squash of the day, as it took Auburn and St. John's awhile to get going. Speaking of, I literally felt for the St. John's players going into halftime, I could not imagine Pitino was happy and even at his age, I'm sure he can still rip into his team when needed.

Will be for McNeese and Texas A&M in their respective games against Purdue and Michigan.

I'm intrigued by the Auburn-Creighton and Houston-Gonzaga games. Many years we'll see one good upset in the 1 vs. 8/9 game, and if not there, one in the 1 vs. 4/5.

Think the media will hype up the St. John's vs. Arkansas game from Providence in Round 2? Definitely think that one gets the prime-time spot.