NCAA Basketball Tournament Scores 2010 Settled Early on Day 2

The NCAA basketball tournament scores for 2010 left fans breathless on Thursday. However, the NCAA basketball tournament scores on Friday made fans a little more capable of breathing. Not only did the favorites restore order, they did so quite convincingly and took the suspense out early. A few games went down to the wire and had upset bids, but it didn't happen as frequently as the day before. So with the second round starting, will the rest of the NCAA basketball tournament scores for 2010 look like Thursday's thrillers, or Friday's blowouts? Today is sure to be quite telling on that end.

Thursday's action was hailed as one of the most thrilling NCAA tournament days ever, with seven underdogs winning and a few more coming all too close. It would take a tall order to match that on Friday, and the final first round games couldn't do that. However, fans likely hoped for a few more close games than they got.

Yesterday's NCAA basketball tournament scores contained ten games decided by ten or more points - a far cry from Thursday's action. Seven of them were decided by fifteen or more points, mostly by the top seeds. After a few struggles from the big favorites on day 1, day 2's favorites had a much easier time.

The tone was set early, when West Virginia rallied from a 10-0 deficit to slaughter Morgan State. In addition, the day's biggest upset wasn't close, as Cornell took care of Temple easily - and many expected this upset anyway. Most of the other NCAA basketball tournament scores 2010 followed the same pattern.

There were only a few surprising thrillers, as Wisconsin had to hold off Wofford at the last minute, and Michigan State survived a run by New Mexico State. Two 10 seeds won, but it isn't an upset when 10 seeds win in round one. Purdue may have been the first four seed to be considered an upset winner, but they held of Siena despite a lot of doubters.

Clearly, the NCAA basketball tournament scores of day 1 were preferred more than day 2. But after two different groups of games in the first round, will the second round be similarly split? Will Thursday's winner have another huge day today, followed by another boring day from Friday's winners? Or will they switch it around - or perhaps have two boring slates ahead?

After Thursday, fans had hopes for a jaw dropping tournament, though their hopes were tempered after yesterday. This weekend will be a greater indication of the shape of things to come, and of what to expect from future NCAA basketball tournament scores in 2010. Will the favorites restore their power for good, or are the underdogs here to stay?

Sources

ESPN- "Day 2: NCAA Tournament roundup"

SI.com- "NCAA Basketball Scoreboard"