Don't worry everyone, tonight's play-in games don't count for the brackets, but they do offer some early Madness!!!
We ave the first 2 play-in games tonight with Mississippi State vs. Western Kentucky in the 16 seed play in game and BYU vs. Iona in the First 4 play-in game.
First, I really like BYU -2 tonight vs. an Iona that I feel has no biz getting an at-large bid in the tourney over the likes of a solid Drexel team or even Miami-Fla. Iona's a run and gun team, but BYU had a tough WCC sked to contend with and Paulsen has great intel on BYU especially their killer performance losing to Gonzaga in the WCC semi's. Iona's run and gun style plays into BYU's weakness but still, Iona played tomato cans despite a good Puerto Rico tourney showing and a slid road sked in Decemeber. Brandon Davies is an unstoppable post that offers the necessary slow down style to negate Iona's run and gun-ness! Liking BYU if ya heeeeeeeard!
And I tracked Mississippi Valley State through the tourney. A dominating performance in the reg season and tourney in their tiny conference. Western Kentucky was a 7 seed in their tiny conference tourney. No other intel but if you have ESPN Insider, Joe Lunardi has the perfect breakdown of each team with intel on the teams strengths and weaknesses and player reports and all stats. Looking at his breakdown, I'd still lean Miss Valley State due to their performance and the Jerry Rice alumni karma, but gonna stay away.
Ohhhhh the Madness!!!!
Commish is out!
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