SHOCK to the HEART and your to BLAME...you give the #5 SEED a BAD NAME (GUITAR play)...SHOCKERS ridin' dirty n more MARCH MADNESS Day 1

I told you so the VCU RAMS were not playing and the WICHITA STATE Shockers knew it was coming just how was the question. Coach Shaka SMART and his VCU Rams up end the SHOCKERS 62-59 and the RAMNS held off a late comeback by the SHOCKERS to pull this one out.

Before I move forward I must get this off my MUSHROOM in SMURF VILLAGE. Why does 2 MID-MAJOR Powerhouses have to play each other on the 1st night when they could have spread both of these fine UNIVERSITIES and SQUADS across 2 different brackets and they would have both got to the SWEET 16. It was disappointing to see both of them matched up 1st round and I hate to see the SHOCKERS go because they are a legit TOP 16 team in the US of A.

The RAMS move on to face the Indiana HOOSIERS and Coach Tom CREAN and they will get a different 7' FOOTER than the one they faced vs Wichita State. HOOSIERS get by Mexico State by 13 79-66 and Freshman Center ZELLER gets 14 and 6 boards with 6 thefts.

The #1 Ranked 'CUSE ORANGE get by a stingy UNC ASHVILLE club and that porous rebounding margin the ORANGE have and being without the BRAZILIAN Big Foot in Fab MELO will cost them sooner rather than later. The ORANGE must make a concerted effort to hit the GLASS or they will be going home vs K-STATE.

Speaking of K-STATE they get 30 POINTS from McGRUDER and finally put nail in the coffin of Souther MISS. Coach Frank MARTIN has to be pleased about moving on but up next BOHEIM and that patented 2-3 Zone of the ORANGE.

VANDY handled the CRIMSON and Coach Tommy AMAKER and the BADGERS and Coach Bo RYAN cruise by MONTANA and they will meet SATURDAY. Look for VANDY's TAYLOR and JENKINS and the BADGERS Point Guard Taylor.

The ZAGS and Mark Few smash HUGGY BEAR and the BOYS from MORGANTOWN by 23 points. Up next for the ZAGS BIG 10 power the OHIO STATE Buckeyes and JJ SULLINGER. The BUCKEYES walked by LOYOLA MD by 19 ld by SULLY's 18 and 9.

MURRAY STATE as expected and the MARQUETTE Golden Eagles will meet SATURDAY as both teams win their 1st round battles. RACERS G Isaiah CANNAN and MARQUETTE's JOHNSON-ODOM will square off in this one.

In other TILTS New Mexico and Louisvlle the 5 and 4 seeds win and they will meet Saturday. The BUFFS of the new PAC 12 surprise the UNLV REBELS and that is a 11 getting by a 6. They will meet a lackluster BAYLOR team that looks like some of its players are more worried about the 2012 NBA Draft than the NCAA Tourney.

In the Nightcaps the Defending NATIONAL CHAMPION UCONN HUSKIES get an L as I expected as they have not played well all season to the MAYOR Fred HOIBERG and the CYCLONES of IOWA STATE. They have the enviable task of taking on that TRAIN from LEXINGTON KENTUCKY called WE are UK......and the NATIONAL PLAYER of the YEAR Anthony Davis.