First Round Games Predicitions for March 19, 2009

HOUSTON, TEXAS (March 19, 2009) The opening round (play-in) game has been completed and the 1st round for the remaining 64 teams begins today. The will be 16 games played today in the first round. The other 16 games in this round will be played tomorrow. I will wait until all of today's games are over and complete to post the results and by percentage correct. When both days’ games are completed for this round, I will post my predictions for the next round.

My predictions for the games are as follows:



West Regional
Connecticut over Chattanooga
Texas A&M over BYU
Purdue over UNI
Washington over Mississippi State
Maryland over California
Memphis over Cal St. Northridge

East Regional
UCLA over VCU
Villanova over American
Texas over Minnesota
Duke over Binghamton

South Regional
North Carolina over Radford
LSU over Butler
Illinois over Western Kentucky
Gonzaga over Akron
Michigan over Clemson
Oklahoma over Morgan State