What Went Down In The First Round Of The NCAA Tournament

Greensboro has been good for Miami. The No. 8 seed Hurricanes wrapped up a convincing win over No. 9 seed USF in the first game of the day in the women’s bracket — on the heels of an impressive run in the ACC Tournament two weeks ago.

I love looking up some of these low seeds’ KenPom profiles to see what weird mix of stats they have — the Gamecocks allowed the country’s third-highest free throw percentage (a stat that is mostly bad luck) on defense, but still gave up a much lower share of points from free throws than the average team because they were one of the lowest-frequency fouling teams in the country.

Can’t believe we’re picking against a Hall of Famer (Aubie).