Ohio State Buckeyes Lead Updated Odds To Win NCAA Tournament Title

By: Bryan Cross (SportsBookGurus.com) -

The madness of March as it relates to college basketball was never more evident than over the first weekend of the 2011 NCAA Basketball Tournament. Favorites were upset, Big Conferences went down, and by the close of Sunday, several Davids were walking side-by-side with Goliaths.

While upsets and double-digit seeds stole many of the story-lines over the four-day period of wall-to-wall college basketball, there are still three No.1 seeds and three No.2 seeds that advanced through the first two rounds and onto the Sweet 16. The lone No.1 seed to drop was in the Southeast region, as the Pittsburgh Panthers fell to the Butler Bulldogs on Sunday.

Four double-digit seeds made it through to the Sweet 16 though, highlighted by the No.11 Virginia Commonwealth Rams, who have had to win three games to get to this point while the rest have won just two. VCU was one of those ‘first four’ teams to compete on Tuesday and Wednesday this past week, where the defeated fellow No.11 seed in the USC Trojans. From there, the Rams went on to defeat Georgetown in the field of 64 and Purdue in the round of 32 on Sunday. It is the first Sweet 16 in school history.

Other double-digit seeds left in the field include No.12 Richmond in the Southwest Region, No.10 Florida State in the Southwest Region and No.11 Marquette in the East Region.

Three of the four No.1 seeds advanced as expected, with the exception of Pittsburgh. Ohio State beat down Georg Mason to advance to play Kentucky East Region, while Duke squeaked

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