NCAA College Basketball Tournament - round of 16, day 2

NCAA College Basketball Tournament - round of 16, day 2

I doubt if you'll find any of Friday's results surprising.

Michigan State's victory over stronger-seeded Oklahoma was not an upset. The Sooners were 1.5 point underdogs, and the game was actually that close. If Hield had made the final shot, State would have been up by only one, which would have left them failing to cover the spread! That miss was costly if you took the Sooners with a point and a half.

Did you know that Michigan State had FIVE overtime losses this year. With a few different bounces, they might have been a two or three seed. (They also had two overtime wins, by the way.) Even with those losses, Sagarin rates them 12th in the country, and estimates that they played the 18th-hardest schedule.

Based on the composition of the Elite Eight, The Spartans are now the closest thing to a Cinderella team. They were a #7 seed, while the remaining teams comprise three ones, two twos, a three and a four. But get this - they're not even an underdog in the game which could carry their 7th-seeded asses to the Final Four. MSU is actually favored by 2 to 2.5 against Louisville. (in the other games, the oddsmakers favor Kentucky by 11, Arizona by a point and a half, and Duke by a deuce and a half.)

The current leader in the ESPN contest has all of the correct teams in the Elite Eight. He's only called four games wrong of the 56 played so far.