March Madness second-round schedule: How to watch, follow Sunday's men's NCAA tournament action
The opening round of the NCAA tournament is now officially in the books.
The first round of the NCAA tournament is now behind us. Another 16 teams punched their tickets into the next round on Friday, and both No. 1 teams who played didn’t have any issue whatsoever.
Both Florida and Michigan cruised into the second round with blowout wins, unlike the scare that Duke had the day before. There weren’t really any major upsets early on, either, other than No. 9 Utah State and No.
9 Iowa both advancing. In fact, betting favorites went a perfect 16-0 on Friday in something that the NCAA tournament hasn’t seen since 1992. Darryn Peterson and No.
4 Kansas survived a late push to put Cal Baptist away late on Friday night and reach the second round. UConn finally pulled away from Furman in the last game of the day, too, thanks to a monster outing from Tarris Reed Jr. He had 31 points and 27 rebounds in the 11-point win.