Madness has Arrived

It is the first day of march, which in the college basketball world this means the madness begins. This is month is when the conference tournaments begin and the selection for the biggest tournament of the year occurs. Some teams have work left to do to get into the tournament and some teams have already secured a spot and are working on there seeding in the tournament
This weekend was an exciting one in college basketball. The top three teams in the country got a loss this weekend. There were many upsets this weekend. Lets start out with the Number one ranked team in the country Kansas. Kansas has lost one game all season and was 12-0 in the Big 12 conference. That all changed when the traveled down to Stillwater Oklahoma on Saturday. The Kansas Jayhawks had a match against the Oklahoma State Cowboys. The Jayhawks have already secured a spot in the NCAA tournament but the Cowboys had not. The Cowboys were fighting for a spot in the tournament and they showed they could compete. The Cowboys led almost the entire game they were up by fifteen points at halftime which is very impressive against the number one team in the country. The Cowboys were able to keep this lead in the second half and hold off the Jayhawks. Oklahoma State has now secured themselves a spot in the NCAA tournament.
Not only did the number one team in country go down the number two team also got a lost this weekend. The number two the Kentucky Wildcats also went on the road to Knoxville Tennessee. The cats would face there rivals the Tennessee Volunteers. They Volunteers lost once to the cats this year in Lexington at Rupp arena so they were looking for revenge. The Volunteers dominated the whole entire game until about the last five minutes when the Wildcats made a big come back to tie the game up. But the cats couldn't regain the lead and defeat the Volunteers for a second time this season. The Volunteers had probably already secured a spot in NCAA tournament but now that spot is more secure. The Wildcats still have the best record in the SEC and have a bye in the first round of the SEC conference tournament.
The number one and two teams went down on the road this weekend, so could the number three team in the country Purdue hold on for a win at home? Purdue would have a chance to be number one in the country if they could the number fourteen team in the country the Michigan State Spartans. Many people were anticipating how Purdue would play without out there star player Robbie Hummel who is out for the season with a knee injury which occurred against Minnesota. Purdue led at halftime but without there star player Hummel they could not hold off they very talented Michigan State Spartans. Purdue had already secured a spot in tournament but with the loss they probably lost there chance to be a number one seed in the tournament. Michigan State also secured themselves a spot in the tournament with the upset.
The madness has just begun. Teams will be fighting harder and harder as march goes on and we get closer to tournament time. Most games will be exciting and hard fought down to the end of game. I'm sure there will be plenty more upsets in the coming weeks.