NCAA Tournament: Day 1 Highlights

Yesterday marked the start of everyone slacking off at work and school. It is the time of the year when everyone becomes a college basketball fan. The time of the year when that cinderella team makes a run deep into the tournament and ruins millions of brackets.

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The biggest story of the "second round" was Harvard upsetting New Mexico to get their first tournament win in school history. Third-seeded New Mexico was heavily favored and picked by many to make a run in this years tournament, but failed to get out of the round of 64 for the second straight year. Harvard led and controlled much of the game, making New Mexico force tough shots. Wesley Saunders led Harvard with 18 points and four rebounds in 39 minutes. Harvard will try to be this years cinderella team and will face sixth-seeded Arizona on Saturday.

Another big surprise was the success of the Pac-12 Conference. Arizona, Oregon, and California all won their games yesterday to advance to the next round. Oregon, powered by Damyean Dotson and Arsalan Kazemi, defeated Oklahoma State convincingly 68-55. Arizona proved the critics wrong and shut down popular upset pick Belmont. California upset UNLV 64-61in a game that ended with multiple missed free throws by both teams.

VCU and Syracuse looked like championship caliber teams in their opening games. VCU beat 12th-seeded Akron by 46. The Rams forced 21 turnovers and only allowed Akron to make one shot from beyond the arc. Syracuse dominated Montana 81-34 to continue their momentum that they gained from a successful Big East Tournament. They will face California in the next round on Saturday.

One thing that many people forget while watching the tournament is that these players are only college kids. Some of them are playing in the last game of their career. Pittsburgh guard Tray Woodall reminded us of that yesterday in his emotional post game press conference. See video below.

Nate Robinson's HUGE dunk vs. Portland (video)

With the NCCA Tournament kicking off yesterday, Nate Robinson did his best to direct the attention back to the NBA for a moment. The 5'9" guard split the Portland defense with a nifty move and absolutely threw the ball down with authority. Chicago ended up losing the game, but Robinson provided us with the spectacular highlight.

Miami wins 23rd straight; LeBron steals the show (video)

The Miami Heat escaped by the Boston Celtics on Monday night to win their 23rd consecutive game. Miami now owns the second longest winning streak in NBA history, after Lebron James hit what proved to be the game winner in the closing seconds of the game. James finished the game with 37 points, 12 assists, and seven rebounds. Jeff Green led the Celtics and all scorers with a surprising 43 points, a career-high. 

Miami's win streak may not have been the biggest story of the game. In the second quarter, LeBron caught an alley-oop from Norris Cole and for some reason Jason Terry thought it would be a good idea to try and block the dunk. LeBron almost jumped over Terry and completely embarrassed him. He even took it as far as to stand over Terry while he laid helpless on the ground. 

The Heat will try for 24 straight wins Wednesday night when they visit the Cleveland Cavaliers. 

Temple University: St. Patty's Weekend Review

If you go to Temple University, you know that St. Patrick’s Day is always going to be a good time no matter what day the holiday falls on. This year, St. Patty’s Day happened to fall on the last Sunday of Temple’s spring break, meaning that the students would have to go to class the next day. That didn’t seem to matter, as people woke up, dressed like idiots, and prepared themselves for a long day of drinking.

The weekend started with some disappointing news, as Temple’s men’s basketball team lost to Massachusetts Friday night 79-74 in the A-1O Tournament.  However, Temple received some good news on Selection Sunday when they found out that they made the NCAA Tournament as a number nine seed. The team is set to play eight-seeded NC State on Friday at 1:40 PM.

On Saturday, it seemed like student’s were slowly returning to campus, but many students were still at home for break. Some people started the celebration a day early, walking or stumbling around campus dressed in all green. The weather was not exactly ideal, as it was snowing and sleeting for much of the day. 

Sunday was absolutely crazy. TUrnt-UP was at a party on Edgley Street that ended up getting three kegs. The music was blasting outside and the back yard was crowded with people playing beer pong. Many schools just began spring break, so a lot of people came up to join in on the celebration and they were definitely glad that they did.

One of the most memorable moments of the weekend was when a kid pooped in his pants while attempting a keg stand. Yes, you read that correctly…someone pooped in his pants while doing a keg stand.

The house got absolutely trashed. The floor was covered in a coating of beer and mud. There was trash everywhere and the couch in the living room got destroyed. The basement had glass bottles shattered all over the floor because people were shooting hockey pucks at them. At one point the sink broke and was spraying water all over the kitchen. People were up drinking till six in the morning, despite having class the next day.

Overall, St. Patty’s day at Temple was a success and an awesome way to end spring break. If you missed out on the festivities, be sure to come up next year, you won’t regret it. 

Chris Mason...where you at? (video)

Last night, the Vancouver Canucks and Nashville Predators game went into a shootout. With the Canucks already leading 5-4, Henrik Sedin added another goal on a nifty move against Nashville goalie Chris Mason. Not only did he beat Mason, he made him look like an absolute fool. (See video below).

Hilarious Jeff Gordon Pepsi MAX Commercial (video)

There has been a lot of buzz over the internet about a recent Pepsi MAX commercial featuring veteran NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon. The commercial has Gordon dress up like an everyday person going to a Chevy dealership to test drive a car. Pepsi put cameras in and outside of the car to get the reaction of the salesperson. Some people are saying that it is fake, but it is still awesome. We'll let you decide.

The Evolution of Thursday

Thursday. It was once known as the day before Friday. The day before the start of the weekend. The only good thing about Thursday was the fact that Thanksgiving always comes on the fourth Thursday of November and you are guaranteed to inhale a delicious meal.

Today, Thursday has a new meaning. "Thirsty Thursday". For college students, Thursday now marks the start of the weekend. Thursday means that you are going to get nothing done on Friday because you drank your face off the night before. It makes the school week go faster and the weekend come sooner. If your not going out Thursday night for whatever reason, people look at you funny.

Not only does Thursday now mean the weekend is starting, it means that you are in for the best day for social media of the week. "Throwback Thursday". Twitter and Instagram are taken over by people posting old or "throwback" pictures of themselves or other things. It gives people the opportunity to reminisce on old memories or forgotten childhood hobbies.

Below, TUrnt-UP takes a look at some of our favorite "throwbacks" of the 90's.


TV Show: Rugrats
If you grew up in the 90's and considered yourself to be a Nickelodeon kid, then you most likely watched Rugrats.

Song: TLC - "No Scrubs"
"No Scrubs" was the ideal R&B song of the 90's. Girls were able to jam out in their room to this song after a breakup with a guy. Guys listened to this song because it was just flat out catchy.

Movie: The Shawshank Redemption

Arguably the best movie ever made. Enough said. If you haven't seen it, do it now. 

Athlete: Deion Sanders

"Primetime" was one of the most feared defensive backs in the NFL in the 90's. Whether he was running one back for a touchdown, or dressing like a complete fool, Deion definitely knew how to get the media's attention.