March Madness Overtime Thriller: Northwestern vs. Florida Atlantic

March Madness is the greatest sporting event of the year, and today in this video we are going to recap all 16 games from the second and final day of round 1

Game 1 took place between an 8-9 matchup, Florida Atlantic and Northwestern

The first half was absolutely brutal with teams scoring a combined 39 points, but in the second half, these two teams would get it going

Northwestern led by as much as 9 with 6.43 to go in this game

But FAU would fight back and actually take the lead 58-56 on a John L. Davis jumper with a minute left

Brooks Barnheiser from Northwestern would tie it up with 9 seconds to go

And then John L. Davis just forgets that there's only a couple seconds left on the clock

And throws up a shot with 1 second left, sending us to overtime

Overtime was all Northwestern and more specifically, all Ryan Langberg. The senior outscores FAU himself 12-7 in overtime

The Wildcats win 77-65. FAU goes from Final Four to first round exit

Dusty May is probably gone, whether it's Louisville, Michigan, wherever. Boo Booey played remarkably and he's also having his best season of his career

This is just the third time in program history that Northwestern has made an NCAA tournament

last season and 2017 being the other two. In all three, they've won their first round game

but never made the Sweet 16. I'm excited to see on Sunday if the fifth-year senior can make

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Game 2 between Baylor and Colgate. There's not much to say here. This was a blowout from start to finish for the Baylor Bears

Four of their starters had double digits. Led by Jalen Bridges with 23

They shot 58% from the field. Went 16 for 30 from 3, which is good for 53%

Game three of the day, San Diego State, the five seed versus UAB, the 12

Fresh off a final four run last season as a five seed as well

the Aztecs found themselves down to UAB, 58-55, with six minutes to go in the game

but would squeak this one out 69-65. Just one field goal was made in the final four minutes of this game

with the rest of the 13 points scored from the free throw line star forward jaden laddie for the aztecs put them on his back scoring 32 points and eight rebounds willing his team to the second round game four

two seed marquette versus western kentucky star point guard tyler kolick would return after a

month absence in this game and marquette would look to avenge their second round loss last season

as a two seed as well but in order to do so they had to get past western kentucky the 15 seed first

The Hilltoppers would lead at halftime 43-36, but the second half was all the Golden Eagles

outscoring Western Kentucky 51-26. Marquette has not been back to the Final Four since Dwayne Wade

led them there in 2003. Cam Jones and Tyler Kolick will be looking to change that. Game 5

the number one overall seed, UConn versus 16 seed Stetson. It's no news to any of us. The Huskies

are unbelievable. They are on a quest to repeat as champions, being the first to do so since 2006-2007

Florida, and this first game was a bloodbath, 91-52, outscoring sets in 52-19 in the first half

Our final 6-11 game of the tournament, the first three were yesterday, and like we mentioned in

yesterday's video, all 11 seeds won, making them 9-6 since 2021 versus 6 seeds. New Mexico was by

far the most popular 11 seed picked to advance with a lot of people having them in the sweet 16

and even the elite eight so naturally clemson handled them the entire game winning 77 to 56

because that's just how march works game seven auburn a four seed versus yale a 13 yale would

get down 10 points 68 to 58 with 735 to go but would fight back tying it at 70 with 238 to go

John Pulikidis was balling for Yale, finishing with 28 points on an absurd 10 for 15 from the

field and 6 for 9 from 3, including this massive 3-pointer putting Yale up 73-72 with 2 minutes

to go. But the last minute of this game was pure chaos. Yale would go up 4-78-74 with 13 seconds

left. Auburn would get an and-1 layup but missed the free throw. Janai Broome would get the

offensive board. Auburn gets fouled and misses both free throws. Janai Broom gets the offensive

rebound again. Yale with the massive block. Auburn scrambles and hoists up a three as time expires

And the 13 seeded Yale Bulldogs pull off the 13-4 upset, 78-76, making them just the 33rd 13 seed

to win a game in the NCAA tournament. And just the second win in Yale's program history, the last

one coming in 2016. The Bulldogs will look to make a Sweet 16 for the first time in program history

on Sunday, matching up with San Diego State. Game 8, Florida vs Colorado. This game was utterly

absurd. If you like offense, this was the game to watch yesterday. Florida was down 94-84 with

four minutes to go before leading scorer Walter Clayton Jr would score 16 straight points tying the game for the Gators with 11 seconds left 100 And then naturally KJ Simpson for Colorado hits a game

winner with two seconds to go. This was one of my favorite games of the day. Colorado shot an

absolutely absurd 63% from the field. Clayton Jr. would finish with 33 points on 10-for-17

And when I saw both teams hit triple digits, I had to check stat head and see the last time that happened, which was in 2005

And only nine times besides this game in NCAA tournament history have two teams both scored over 100 points

This was one of my favorite games of the day. Nebraska versus Texas A&M game nine of the day and tipping off our nightcap

The Huskers in the tournament for the first time since 2014 and before that 1998

but this one was all Texas A&M, outscoring Nebraska 58-44 in the first half

winning 98-83, led by Wade Taylor, who finished with 25 on 8-14

Game 10 of the day, Duke versus Vermont. Vermont hung around for the first two-thirds of this game or so

but it was Duke all after that, winning 64-47. Leading scorer, Kyle Filipowski, took one shot and only had three points

but Duke didn't really need him as they held Vermont to 38.5% from the field and 25% from three

Game 11, Purdue versus 16 seed Grambling. Fresh off an embarrassing loss to Fairleigh Dickinson last year

becoming just the second one seed to ever fall to a 16

Purdue would take care of business, winning 78-50. The presumed national player of the year, Zach Eadie, would dominate in this one with 30-21

Could this be a redemption tour for the Boilermakers? In a similar fashion, when 2018 Virginia became the first one seed to lose to a 16

they would turn around in 2019 and win a national championship. I'm curious to see if Purdue can accomplish the same thing, but only time will tell

Game 12, four seed Alabama versus 13 College of Charleston. Similar to Colorado and Florida, this was a shootout, but Bama kind of just dominated

Even though they gave up 96 points, they finished scoring 109, which thanks to StatHead is the most points scored in an NCAA tournament game since 2008, one seed North Carolina put up 113 versus 16 seed Mount St. Mary's

Alabama has the third best offense in the country according to adjusted offensive efficiency on Ken

Palm, but just the 117th defense. They live and die by the three, taking the fourth most three

point attempts in the country, making 37% of those. They did shoot 60% from the field and 56

from three in this game, but I'm skeptical going forward in any team that just can't get stops when

they need to. Game 13, Houston versus Longwood. Not much to say

Houston absolutely dominated. They have the best defense in the nation holding Longwood to 44 points and just 16 in the first half They match up against Texas A in the second round in a game that I believe is going to be highly competitive

Game 14, another one of my favorites of the day, five seed Wisconsin versus 12 seed James Madison

And the Dukes complete the upset in this game. And although they didn't even shoot it well from the field

shooting 41% as a team and 29% from three, they didn't really need to

as they held Wisconsin to 37% from the field as well. Co-stars Terrence Edwards Jr. and TJ Bickerstaff led the way with 14-12, but I think the thing that

was most impressive about this game for James Madison is that they led wire to wire, and they

just looked like they were in control the entire game. Our second to last game of the day, Utah

State versus TCU, 58% of ESPN brackets were taking TCU in this game, and the betting markets had TCU

money line at minus 180, but Utah State kind of handled them, especially in the second half

winning 88-272, giving the Aggies their first win of the NCAA tournament since 2001. And finally

our final game of day two of March Madness, 5-seed St. Mary's versus 12-seed Grand Canyon

St. Mary's was a pretty popular Sweet 16 and even a dark horse at lead eight or final four pick

in brackets, but Grand Canyon was quite frankly just the better team in this game, especially in

the second half. They held the Gales to 28% from three, 39% overall. Tyon Grant Foster was fantastic

for GCU, scoring 22-7, and if you know this guy's story, I'm so happy for him. He's a sixth-year

senior who started off in JUCO, played eight minutes a game for Kansas in 2021, transferred

to DePaul in 2022 and in the first game of the season he collapsed in the locker room at halftime

I won't go into too many more details but basically he had issues with his heart that didn't allow him

to play that would keep him out of basketball for 16 months and finally around this time last season

doctors cleared him to play and he signed with Grand Canyon. He's been nothing short of sensational

averaging 19.8 points per game, six rebounds, and leading the Antelopes to their first NCAA tournament win in school history

I don't know about you guys, but I am cheering hard for GCU in the round of 32

How can you not cheer for a team and a player with a story like this

That concludes day two and the first round of the NCAA tournament

We had eight double-digit seeds advance this year in March Madness, compared to just three last season and it's the most double digit seeds to advance to the round

of 32 since 2016 when 10 advanced so for those that love upsets like i do it's been a good year

so far hopefully this continues in the second round if you enjoyed this video check out my day

one recap of march madness i uploaded yesterday and also my video from a couple days ago on how

far each seed has advanced in the ncaa tournament i'll be doing daily recaps for round two as well

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