We started the weekend with 64 schools from 32 states representing 31 conferences. If every game went as expected (a higher seed beating a lower seed) the first round should've ended with 32 schools from 24 states representing 9 conferences left in contention. Instead, due to seven upsets, the second round will be played out between 32 schools from 23 states representing 11 conferences.
Upset winners - Liberty (13 seed out of the Big South conference), Middle Tennessee State (12 seed out of the Sun Belt Conference), Oregon (10 seed out of the Pac 10 conference), Utah (10 seed out of the Mountain West conference), Arizona (9 seed out of the Pac 10 conference), George Washington (9 seed out of the Atlantic 10 conference), and Purdue (9 seed out of the Big Ten conference).
Upset losers - Penn State (4 seed out of the Big Ten conference), North Carolina State (5 seed out of the Atlantic Coast conference), TCU (7 seed out of Conference USA), Iowa State (7 seed out of the Big 12 conference), Oklahoma (8 seed out of the Big 12 conference), Mississippi (8 seed out of the Southeastern conference), and New Mexico (8 seed out of the Mountain West conference).
Conferences whose teams exceeded expectations - Pac 10 conference (expected to win 3 and lose 2 but instead won 5 and lost 0), Atlantic 10 conference (expected to win 1 and lose 2 but instead won 2 and lost 1), Sun Belt conference (expected to win 0 and lose 1 but instead won 1 and lost 0), and the Big South conference (expected to win 0 and lose 1 but instead won 1 and lost 0).
* The Mountain West and the Big Ten conferences both matched expectations by having one higher seed lose and one lower seed win. The upsets cancelled out.
Conferences whose teams disappointed expectations - Big 12 conference (expected to win 6 and lose 0 but instead won 4 and lost 2), Southeastern conference (expected to win 5 and lose 0 but instead won 4 and lost 1), Atlantic Coast conference (expected to win 6 and lose 1 but instead won 5 and lost 2), and Conference USA (expected to win 2 and lose 2 but instead won 1 and lost 3).
States (or districts) whose teams exceeped expectations - Arizona (expected to win 1 and lose 1 but instead won 2 and lost 0), Washington DC (expected to win 0 and lose 1 but instead won 1 and lost 0), Indiana (expected to win 1 and lose 1 but instead won 2 and lost 0), Tennessee (expected to win 2 and lose 1 but instead won 3 and lost 0), Utah (expected to win 0 and lose 1 but instead won 1 and lost 0), and Virginia (expected to win 1 and lose 4 but instead won 2 and lost 3).
States whose teams disappointed expectations - Iowa (expected to win 1 and lose 0 but instead won 0 and lost 1), Mississippi (expected to win 1 and lose 1 but instead won 0 and lost 2), New Mexico (expected to win 1 and lose 0 but instead won 0 and lost 1), North Carolina (expected to win 3 and lose 1 but instead won 2 and lost 2), Oklahoma (expected to win 1 and lose 1 but instead won 0 and lost 2), Pennsylvania (expected to win 2 and lose 1 but instead won 1 and lost 2), and Texas (expected to win 4 and lose 3 but instead won 3 and lost 4).
Let Round 2 begin!
