No one thought the 2015 NCAA Tournament would be down two No. 3 seeds by 4 p.m. on Thursday. But it is.
Sometimes, the madness of the NCAA Tournament strikes very early. That would seem to be the case with the 2015 edition of March Madness, in which two No. 3 seeds have lost for the first time since 1995.
After No. 14 seed UAB took down No. 3 seed Iowa State in one of the day's first games, No. 14 seed Georgia State staged an epic 13-0 run in the final minutes against Baylor, punctuating it with a three by R.J. Hunter — son of stool-bound coach Ron Hunter, who had already torn an Achilles tendon celebrating Georgia State winning the Sun Belt Conference Tournament — that has already produced a moment sure to go down in history, when the elder Hunter fell off that stool in ecstasy after his son's three dropped to give the Panthers the 58-57 lead that would be the final margin.
That result also opens up the lower half of the South Region considerably: No. 11 seed Mississippi could ride the momentum from its own late comeback against BYU in First Four action on Tuesday to the Sweet Sixteen if it can get by Xavier, and the Musketeers could be vying for their first Sweet Sixteen trip since 2012 — and would have to be happy, if they can get past the Rebels, to not Baylor, which defeated them in the Sweet Sixteen in that tournament.
The drama of the day's first three games, decided by a total of six points, did not extend to Arizona's 93-72 win over Texas Southern. The Wildcats got 23 points and 10 rebounds from Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, and saw all five starters score at least 12 points, as they eased past the SWAC's NCAA Tournament representative. Arizona began the game on a 15-2 run, led by 21 at halftime, shot better than 60 percent from the field, and generally showed the sort of dominant form that makes them one of this field's most dangerous teams.
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