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It is uncanny how kansas...

always gets a game altering call at the end of games.

The jaysquawks almost gave the game away, but bailed out by a foul that wasn't. (Clean block by Samford player at the hoop on a break away with kansas hanging on to a one point lead with about a minute.)

Really...not a nefarious call since in real time the way the kansas player fell going for a dunk.... it may have looked like a hard foul to the zebra...but it was the classic case of another lucky late time call for the chickensquawks.

So far...BYU and Texas Tech sure let my bracket down. Come on Big Twelve...play Big the rest of the way.

CEO Shirt

Hi Gang, this is a little weird and I apologize for that.

I got a lot of compliments on my CEO sweatshirt yesterday, and people were asking where to get it.

My friend (who has terminal cancer and is really just doing this for fun,) made it and has a link to it. But I really don't know how to get the word out, so I'm posting the link here. Please, no obligation at all. Just sharing the link


Go Clones.

Brackets busted already

I don't know what happened to me. I used to be pretty good at picking winners. I won the pool at work three or four times, finished second or third (in the money) a couple of other times and one year, a colleague at work, who came from a huge family, even invited me to join their family pool, which I also won. They never invited me back after that. LOL. I haven't been close to a winning bracket for the past 15 years, I would estimate.

But I would bet dollars to donuts that nobody on this board picked BYU to lose to Duquesne after the way they played us in two games. I also picked Michigan State to lose, because they suck this year.

***RELEASE: Iowa State Advances Six to Second Round at NCAA Wrestling Championships***

Iowa State Media Relations

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Iowa State went 6-3 in First-Round action Thursday afternoon at the NCAA Championships. Four Cyclones - Anthony Echemendia, David Carr, Will Feldkamp and Yonger Bastida - secured bonus points for ISU during Session I inside the T-Mobile Center.

Feldkamp and Bastida each earned falls while Echemendia and Carr tallied tech falls. Evan Frost, Echemendia, Casey Swiderski, Carr, Feldkamp and Bastida advanced to the Second Round while Kysen Terukina, Cody Chittum, MJ Gaitan fell to the wrestlebacks.

Iowa State sits in fourth place with 13.0 points while Penn State sits atop the leaderboard with 15.5 after the opening session.

Frost got ISU on the board first at 133 pounds. Despite giving up the first takedown, Frost came back to secure an 8-5 decision over No. 25 Braden Basile (ARMY).

Echemendia tallied the Cyclones’ first bonus points of the tournament as he cruised to a 20-4 tech fall over Purdue’s Greyson Clark. Swiderski started his tournament with a gritty 2-1 decision over Army’s Matthew Williams thanks to a stall point in the third period.

Carr did what he does best and notched an 18-2 tech fall over the MAC Champion Evan Maag in 4:52. Feldkamp appeared to be back in his postseason form with a first-period fall over Nate Dugan (PRIN) in 2:29.

Bastida closed out the session on a positive note with ISU’s second fall of the tournament, and his third of the season, in 1:50 against Minnesota’s Bennett Tabor.

Up Next
Session II begins at 6 p.m. inside the T-Mobile Center and will air on ESPN. Second Round matches and consolation matches will be contested.

Match-by-Match Results
125:
No. 24 Kysen Terukina
First Round: L-D, 9-4 vs. No. 9 Patrick McKee (MINN)
Consis. Rd. 1: vs. No. 25 Ethan Berginc (ARMY)

133: No. 8 Evan Frost
First Round: W-D, 8-5 vs. No. 25 Braden Basile (ARMY)
Second Round: vs. No. 24 Julian Chlebove (ASU)

141: No. 5 Anthony Echemendia
First Round: W-TF, 20-4 (6:51) vs. No. 28 Greyson Clark (Purdue)
Second Round: vs. No. 21 Josh Edmond (MIZ)

149: No. 8 Casey Swiderski
First Round: W-D, 2-1 vs. No. 25 Matthew Williams (ARMY)
Second Round: vs. No. 9 Ethan Fernandez (CORN)

157: No. 14 Cody Chittum
First Round: L-MD, 17-6 vs. No. 19 Tommy Askey (APP)
Consis. Rd. 1: vs. No. 30 Colton Washleski (RID)

165: No. 4 David Carr
First Round: W-TF, 18-2 (4:52) vs. No. 29 Evan Maag (GMU)
Second Round: vs. No. 20 Hunter Garvin (STAN)

174: No. 15 MJ Gaitan
First Round: L-D, 18-11 vs. No. 18 Benjamin Pasiuk (ARMY)
Consis. Rd. 1: vs. No. 31 Michael Wilson (RID)

184: No. 17 Will Feldkamp
First Round: WBF (2:29) vs. No. 16 Nate Dugan (PRIN)
Second Round: vs. No. 1 Parker Keckeisen (UNI)

285: No. 2 Yonger Bastida
First Round: WBF (1:50) vs. No. 31 Bennett Tabor (MINN)
Second Round: vs. No. 15 Lewis Fernandes (CORN)
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