Harvard Drops Shockingly; Home Teams Rule

I would lead with the ending to Texas/Kansas State if I were a highlight show, but this is a bracketology blog, where we're looking for the most drastic changes to the bracket each night. And tonight, you have to look towards Boston.

How to Destroy a #1 Seed, Creighton's Destruction of Villanova in Philly

Two major upsets occurred on Monday night, but the upsets couldn't have been more different. In the first game, we were shocked not by the upset but by the way it happened. In the second, we were shocked by the sheer downfall of a once solid team. That and more in Monday night's recap.

Conference USA's Marquee In-Season Game, and the Oregon Ducks Slide

Tonight, we got a little bit of clarity into the Conference USA race, and we found out that the Oregon Ducks are simply not the same team that started out winning its first 15 games this season. We'll look at those games and preview Monday's games.

Bracket Brief for January 19, 2014

Seed	West (1) Anaheim (Th/Sa)	South (4) Memphis (Th/Sa)	East (2) NYC (Fr/Su)	Midwest (3) Indianapolis (Fr/Su)
Site 1 16 8 9	San Diego (Fr/Su) Arizona Northern Colorado Kansas State SMU	Milwaukee (Th/Sa) Michigan State Rob. Mor./Southern California Baylor	Buffalo (Th/Sa) Syracuse NC Central UCLA Harvard	Buffalo (Th/Sa) Villanova Elon/UNC Asheville Louisville George Washington
Site 5 12 4 13	San Antonio (Fr/Su) Creighton Clemson/VCU Iowa UC Santa Barbara	Spokane (Th/Sa) Cincinnati Providence Pittsburgh North Dakota State	San Diego (Fr/Su) Memphis New Mexico Oklahoma State Manhattan	San Antonio (Fr/Su) Virginia Tennessee/Stanford Minnesota Toledo
Site 3 14 6 11	Orlando (Th/Sa) Massachusetts New Mexico State Duke Colorado	Raleigh (Fr/Su) Iowa State Mercer Michigan North Carolina	Orlando (Th/Sa) Florida Stephen F. Austin Florida State Louisiana Tech	Raleigh (Fr/Su) Wisconsin Delaware Xavier Arkansas
Site 7 10 2 15	Spokane (Th/Sa) Texas Gonzaga San Diego State Vermont	St. Louis (Fr/Su) Kentucky Oregon Wichita State Georgia State	Milwaukee (Th/Sa) Oklahoma Connecticut Ohio State Boston U	St. Louis (Fr/Su) Saint Louis Green Bay Kansas Belmont

Note: Through games of January 18, 2014. Teams in italics below represent automatic bids. The rankings at the top of each column are based on the overall seeds of the top four teams, so the winner of the regional with the team seeded #1 overall would meet the winner of the regional with the team seeded #4 overall.

The Day of Big 12 Drama

Saturday opened up with a lot of great action in the Big 12 and a bunch of movement throughout the conference's standings. We sorted out a little bit between the top two teams, but everything from 3 down changed. We also had upsets all over the country, and a number of teams fortified their positions. Let's take a look at Saturday's action.

The Friday Appraisal for January 17, 2014, and a Saturday Preview

It is time for our second edition of the Friday Appraisal, a look at some interesting questions after the last week of college basketball. Friday is the perfect night for it because only one game, Green Bay at Wright State, really mattered to the most recent Bracket Brief (Green Bay won 79-69). We'll also preview Saturday's most important games.

Ohio State Loses Third Straight; Memphis Goes Down at Home

The big news came from the midwest, where Ohio State followed up its 15-0 start with a 0-3 losing streak, falling tonight at Minnesota. Once an easy pick for a #1 seed, Ohio State will struggle to climb back to that loft position. Elsewhere, UConn and Memphis battled, Colorado began the post-Dinwiddie part of the season, and a bubble team out of the SEC lost.