The NCAA Tourney--Round 2--The Big Ten is Dead

An amazing turnaround since Thursday: the Big East, 0-3 on Opening Day, has gone 9-1 since and leads confernces with four Sweet 16ers. Meanwhile, the Big Ten went 2-0 on Thursday and 1-6 over the weekend, leaving the conference on the outside looking in. Beasts of the Midwest are now the Missouri Valley Conference with #7 Wichita State and #13 Bradley doing their best Molly Ringwald imitations (like many others, I must eat crow on the Braves; their weekend played very well in Peoria). Kudos also to George Mason; the #11 seed, previously most famous for having economist Walter Williams on staff, became the second double-digit seed to make it to the second weekend.