Finally, a Highlight From Rather Boring Day Games

By Chris Mottram

Note the scores (right above Joe Crawford's tears) of the 2:00 games on this screen shot:

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Yep, lots of real nail-biters. Purdue (over Baylor), Pitt (over Oral Roberts), and UNLV (over Kent State) are all going to win by around 20 points each. Thrilling. I want my Xavier-Georgia game back.

The Marquette-Kentucky game was, however, somewhat close throughout, which I guess inherently makes it pretty exciting. Or I guess I should say it was exciting compared to 20-point blowouts. Marquette's win was highlighted by this big jam from Lazar Hayward:



I'd say that dunk was the best part of the first two batches of games this afternoon. So don't worry if you were stuck at work; you didn't miss much. Hopefully we'll get a buzzer-beater tonight. Or at least a clip of Gus Johnson's head exploding.

(H/T: Awful Announcing)

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