2021 NCAA Tournament (Day Four)

 Games I saw (some of):

(7) Oregon 95-80 (2) Iowa

Oregon shot well, got a nice early lead, and played at a pace that Iowa couldn't keep up with. Iowa was a nice team but bland and probably overperformed, all in all. I don't mean to bust on Garza, he's really one of the greats, but he's kind of an empty calories numbers guy; he put up 36/9 and that made no difference whatsoever. Oregon plays hard and fast, if they knock down shots, they can keep winning. 

(8) Oklahoma 71-87 (1) Gonzaga

I figured Gonzaga would mostly buffalo over the competition and Okla is just the latest victim. Sooners were okay, they weren't bad at anything and it felt like Reaves was capable of some big moments. But Gonzaga is good at pretty much every phase of the game. Gonzaga isn't unbeatable but they'd have to play pretty bad for most teams to catch them on any given night. 

(8) LSU 78-86 (1) Michigan

Michigan started slow but they were just better than LSU. LSU feasted off sloppy Wolverine TO's but once UM stopped turning it over than the natural weight of offensive efficiency took over. Tigers still made it a fun game late but Michigan is looking pretty good right now.

(6) Southern Cal 85-51 (3) Kansas

Not much to say about this one: Southern Cal just kept making shots and Kansas never got any scoring going at all. This one was over quick, so quick it's hard to tell how good USC actually is. The Pac-12 is looking good, though, much stronger showing than I was anticipating. 

Games I saw (pretty much) none of:

(14) Abilene Christian 47-67 (11) UCLA

Not as much of a blowout as I would've thought. This looked to me like a match of the most underrated #11 seed of all time and the most overrated #14 seed, seriously thought UCLA would win by 40. 

(13) Ohio 58-72 (5) Creighton

(5) Colorado 53-71 (4) Florida St

(10) Maryland 77-96 (2) Alabama

Day #4 MVP: Hmmmm....no individual players really stood out, this was a day of good team efforts throttling weak team efforts.