Will Wade adds to ACC misery

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McNeese State, Amir Khan, advance to the Round of 32

While McNeese has taken down Clemson for their first NCAA Tournament win in school history, it’s student manager Amir “Aura” Khan continues to steal the show.

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Cinderella’s slipper needs a size adjustment. It doesn’t fit quite right.

The first day of the first round of men’s March Madness came and went with a modest amount of madness. We got the 12-seed beating a 5-seed, that we’ve come to expect, and an 11-seed shoving aside a 6-seed.

For the most part, though, the favorites held serve. Perhaps a modest Thursday will yield to a wild and wooly Friday filled with upsets.

Here are the winners and losers after Thursday’s first-round action:

Winners

Conservative bracket pickers

If you picked a lot of chalk for Thursday’s games, you’re probably sitting pretty good in your respective bracket pool. No day of first-round games is complete without the emergence of at least a few upsets, but if you strictly picked the better-seeded team, you would’ve gone 12 of 16 for Thursday’s games, and that’s not a bad place to be entering Friday.

Two upsets – No. 9 Creighton and No. 10 Arkansas won – were upsets in name only. Overall, good day to have chalk.

Gonzaga

If you turned on the Georgia-Gonzaga game a few minutes late, you missed everything you needed to see. Gonzaga raced to a 13-0 lead before the first media timeout.

Game over.

Mark Few added polish to his résumé as the nation’s best active coach without a national championship. Gonzaga has advanced to at least the second round in each of the past 16 NCAA Tournaments, while becoming a model of consistency under Few’s watch.

Will Wade

Just a few years ago, the FBI sharks chomped up Wade’s LSU tenure, and he was cast into purgatory, from which he emerged at a school, McNeese State, that owned no NCAA Tournament victories.

Wade’s McNeese achievements reiterate that this guy can coach.

No. 12 McNeese upended No. 5 Clemson for its first NCAA Tournament…

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