Stories from the First Weekend of the Tournament

What a great first weekend of the NCAA tournament!! Loved having 3 double digit seeds still in the tournament. Congrats to all of the Sweet Sixteen teams and especially the big surprises; Davidson, Western Kentucky, Villanova and West Virginia.

BTW, nice job on the poll readers. You guys said the 3 teams (seeded 2-4) that were most likely to miss the Sweet Sixteen; Wash St, Vandy and Duke. Two out of three is very good predicting!!

Here are some of the interesting stories that I have read about the first weekend of the NCAA tournament.

The Dagger on YahooSports has an interesting article on the performance of the different conferences -- Kudos to the success of the Big Ten, Big East and Pac-10 so far.

Storming The Floor is doing some real nice profiles on each of the teams in the Sweet Sixteen. If you haven't read these yet, you should check them out. They provide a nice synopsis of who each team is and how they got there.

While the first weekend was FANtastic, I was surprised to learn that the ratings have been down this year. Fanhouse has an interesting article on the ratings you should check out.