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Ali Farokhmanesh's late three-pointer helped Northern Iowa upet Kansas 69-67.
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More buzzer-beaters and upsets in what has been a crazy NCAA Tournament. Hopefully your bracket has survived an unpredictable weekend.

Northern Iowa's Ali Farokhmanesh will join the show after hitting a huge three-pointer late in the game to knock out No. 1 Kansas.

Also on Monday, David Spade talks about his bracket, SI college hoops writer Seth Davis and TNT analyst Reggie Miller.  

 

If you're NCAA Tournament brackets are on life support, you're not alone. Everyone from President Obama to nationally televised bracketoligists are having trouble. Hit the LR to commiserate with fellow sufferers.

Just remember, most people had Kansas, so you still may be in it even if you don't get the eventual national champion. Of course, you probably need Syracuse, Kentucky and Duke to fall, but the way this Tournament is going, that's very possible.

If you can stomach it, go to our Facebook Challenge to see where you stack up.

Northern Iowa's huge 69-67win over Kansas has caused havoc in our Facebook challenge. Go here to see the standings. If you had Kansas going all the way, you weren't alone. That's why they call it March Madness.

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Jay Bilas
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A daily recap of the Dan Patrick Show ...

Q & A with Jay Bilas

DP: Would you rather have talent or experience this time of the year?
JB: I think the best of both worlds is to have both. People say this time of year, freshman aren't freshman anymore. Digger Phelps said that a lot. I said, well what about the seniors? Does that make them graduate students? Are they in some sort of PhD program when they get to the postseason because they've been in school for four years?

DP: A few days ago I talked to  John Calipari who admitted his kids didn't know the score at the end of regulation in the SEC title game against Mississippi State. They thought they had won the game when they had the put-back by DeMarcus Cousins to tie it at the end of regulation. He said, they're kids, that's where inexperience is factored in.
JB: It's not just freshman Dan. Sometimes it's a sophomore or even a junior that hasn't been. You think that all these kids have been in this position before and they haven't. We saw in the Big East tournament a kid from Georgetown, Chris Wright didn't know the score at the end of the ball game. So it happens, especially in the NCAA Tournament. The first weekend is really the most interesting to me because guys step on the floor with different attitudes. I used to call it the strut factor. You'd see the higher seeds come in there and maybe there's not a big crowd for the game, it's at noon, and they just think they're better. Then they find out, "holy cow, these guys are pretty good." And it's amazing that you would think that after all these years.

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New Mexico coach Steve Alford
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New Mexico coach Steve Alford joined the show to talk about the NCAA Tournament. Here are some of his takes ...

-- Alford was part of the documentary Winning Time about Reggie Miller. When the Pacers took Miller over Alford, the entire state of Indiana was mad. But Alford said it worked out.

"Not only was it a much better draft choice than drafting me ... Reggie turned out not to be a great pick, he turned out to be great for the state of Indiana," Alford said.

-- Alford did say Indiana coach Bob Knight sometimes made him stop shooting. "He had two practices in a row, where I was put on the white team, and he would say 'OK, white ball, everyone can shoot but Alford.'"

But Alford said Knight did make him a much better player in his time in Indiana.

-- Alford said he's glad conference opponent Jimmer Fredette of BYU is getting attention. "He's one of the most talented players we've played against all year," Alford said.

-- Alford talked about how the three-point line would have helped him a little in high school. He averaged 37 points a game in high school.

 

 

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BYU's Jimmer Fredette
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BYU star Jimmer Fredette joined the show to talk about the Cougars' win over Florida in the NCAA Tournament. Fredette scored 37 points in the double-overtime victory.

Fredette said that his coaches want him to be aggressive. "They definitely don't mind me shooting the ball, especially if I'm taking good shots," Fredette said.

Dan asked Fredette what his shooting range is. "Hopefully it's pretty unlimited," Fredette said.

Fredette explained why he wasn't recruited by Syracuse even though he's from upstate New York. He said that the Orange had guards coming in when he was going to college -- one of them being Jonny Flynn. Fredette might end up playing 'Cuse in the West region.

Fredette also talked about his Mountain West competitors, New Mexico. He said that the Lobos work very hard and should do well in the Tournament.

Jimmer's brother is a rapper and wrote a song called "Amazing" about his brother. It's good, but Jimmer said he's still a better shooter than his brother is as a performer.

 

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DP Show Director of Operations Patrick O'Connor, also known as Seton, hard at work in the studio.

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CBS and ESPN analyst Jay Bilas joined the show to talk about a wild first day of the NCAA Tournament.

Bilas said yesterday was loaded with great games, but there have been other days just as wild. Bilas pointed to 1989, when No. 16 seeds East Tennessee State and Princeton almost won. Bilas said the Big Dance has always been like this. He talked about 1985, when the last team in, Villanova, won it all.

Bilas said there's actually less parity now and the top teams actually are tougher to knock out. We haven't seen a No. 16 seed come close to beating a No. 1 in a long time. But it used to happen more often.

Bilas said the key difference between majors and mid-majors is that the mid-majors lose their seniors and the cupboards are empty. Majors keep re-tooling on the fly by bringing in so much talent.

Bilas is against expansion, unless the financial benefit for colleges is just overwhelming. He thinks the reason the NCAA might do it is because it owns the NIT now and wants to save administrative costs.

Bilas said he gets a lot of pressure from fans. "I didn't pick Kentucky to go to the Final Four and I'm wearing a flak jacket a the Kentucky games," Bilas said.

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Um, just a slice of life from the Dan Patrick studios ...

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Armon Bassett (right) finished with a game-high 32 points to lead Ohio past Georgetown.
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After a wild first day, here's the standings in the Friends of Dan NCAA Tournament pool:

(Number of games correct)

Paul Pabst: 12
Dan Patrick: 11
Cheryl Miller: 11
John Smoltz: 11
Reggie Miller: 10
David Spade: 10
Adam Sandler: 9
Patrick Whitesell: 9
McLovin: 8
Seton: 8