NCAA bracket 2013: Live coverage and score updates for Thursday’s Madness

Whether the insane comeback at the end of the Marquette-Davidson game ruined your hot upset pick or saved your bracket from destruction, you’re going to want to read Marquette blog Anonymous Eagle’s recap of the game.

For starters, let’s take a peek at the site’s cover the morning after the team came back from down five points with 30 seconds left:

Over at our Oregon blog, Addicted to Quack, Jake Tabor writes that Oregon was able to pull away, due in large part to Kazemi:

The time for Saturday’s game between Saint Louis and Oregon is yet to be announced.

It seems like it’s become an annual occurrence. A 15 seed doesn’t beat a 2 within the first four hours of the tournament, and everybody immediately starts in with the “I thought it was supposed to be ‘March Madness’” talk.

As much as I’d like to fork-stab these people for tampering with a perfectly lucid basketball buzz, they had more of a legitimate gripe on Thursday than they ordinarily do...until the evening session rolled around. Once the sun set in the East, the sports world was treated to a pair of the vaunted 12/5 upsets and Harvard stunning third-seeded New Mexico.

The most exciting weekend of the sports year continues on Friday with the 2013 NCAA Tournament. You can catch all the action on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV, but if you happen to be away from a TV, there are plenty of options to view the games online.

The NCAA is live streaming every game on its official website here. Simply log in and confirm your television provider to get every single game. If you don’t have a cable or satellite subscription, the NCAA is offering the first four hours for free on the cable networks. You can still watch the games broadcast on CBS without it counting against the four hour window.

It’s pretty clear that the air ball would be Phil Collins’ favorite basketball play. So with that in mind, we made you this video, set to -- what else? -- “In the Air Tonight.”

Mainly the agony of defeat, actually.

At least, if you are a Lobo, or know someone who is.

As a team, Syracuse shot 52.9 percent from the field and 45.5 percent from long distance. The Grizzlies, meanwhile, only put up a 20.4 shooting percentage from the field while going 4-for-31 from three-point range.

The Orange outplayed the Grizzlies and had more rebounds, assists, blocks and steals -- of course, leading to a big edge in the most important statistic: points scored.

But with the win, Harvard, who was not even picked to win the Ivy League this year, advanced to face Arizona in the third round on Saturday. The Wildcats defeated Belmont earlier in the evening.

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The Mountain West got its first win of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday night when the Colorado State Rams defeated Missouri, 84-72, in Lexington, Ky.

The Rams took control early, building a 20-9 lead and scoring 47 first-half points on their way to a nine-point halftime lead.

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• March Madness: Thursday’s scores, updates, GIFs and more

• Friday’s March Madness TV guide

• March Madness: Thursday’s scores, updates, GIFs and more

Things didn’t start off so hot for the Jackrabbits. This was their first shot of the game.

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Thursday afternoon, No. 16 Southern gave No. 1 Gonzaga a run for their money. Louisville might have been watching, because they got up early against No. 16 North Carolina A&T and did not relent, blowing them out in a dunk-filled 79-46 romp.

Did you think that Louisville’s No. 1 defense would take a night off, just because they were playing arguably the weakest team in the pool of 64? They didn’t. They forced 25 turnovers, and turned a lot of them into fast break scores. They held the Aggies to 16-for-40 shooting, and although there were tons of misses to be grabbed, the Cardinals got most of them, allowing just four offensive boards. Although there was flukily good three-point shooting from North Carolina A&T, this game was not close in the slightest, and there were few facets of the game where Louisville didn’t win by a comfortable margin.

Burke stayed on the ground as CBS went to a media timeout, and was eventually led into the locker room to undergo tests for a concussion. Here’s a look at his fall:

Thankfully, just moments later, he returned to the floor and re-entered the game.

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Noted Grateful Dead fan Bill Walton went to UCLA and his Bruins lost to Oregon in the Pac-12 championship, but that didn’t stop him from throwing on his freshest green and yellow tie-dye and rooting for the Ducks this afternoon. As the Finals MVP of the 1977 NBA Champion Blazers and a member of the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame, that’s fine. Here’s Walton reveling in the Ducks’ 68-55 upset win over Oklahoma State:

The NCAA Tournament is off to a great start. There weren’t many upsets in Thursday’s early session, although a last-minute comeback from No. 3-seed Marquette over No. 14 Davidson is sure steal all the headlines. Now, No. 12-seeded Oregon has knocked off No. 5 Oklahoma State, and top-seeded Gonzaga nearly lost to Southern.

With the win, Gonzaga will take on Wichita State in the third round. The winner will advance to the Sweet 16.

This upset certainly wasn’t a rare occurrence, considering both tournament history and the under-seeding of Oregon. The 12-5 upset has occurred 38 times -- or 34 percent -- since 1985 when the tournament expanded to 64 teams.

Oregon will play No. 4 Saint Louis on Saturday. The Bilikens took care of New Mexico State 64-44.

In the end though, coach Mark Few’s bunch gritted out a 64-58 win over the Southern Jaguars in Salt Lake City.

With the win, Gonzaga moves on to face Wichita State in the third round. The Shockers advanced earlier on Thursday with a blowout win over Pittsburgh. The Bulldogs and WSU will square off on Saturday afternoon for a chance to move on to the Sweet 16.

Hey John, how are you feeling about this game right now?

The winner of this game will play again Saturday, when they take on the winner of the West region’s No. 5 vs. No. 12 match-up between UNLV and Cal.

Game time, TV: 9:50 p.m. ET, truTV

Location: HP Pavilion, San Jose, Calif.

The second round of the NCAA Tournament kicked off on Thursday afternoon. There haven’t been any big upsets as the dinner hours roll around, but there are still plenty of vulnerable top-seeded teams out there. Here is a look back at what has happened thus far.

Davidson had this game won with a minute left on the clock. Somehow, someway, the Golden Eagles dug deep and hit a couple of 3-pointers to cut the deficit to one point. The Wildcats then turned it over, giving MU one final shot.

The Rams’ highest seeding came in 1985 when they were a No. 2, but they fell to a No. 7 Alabama team in the second round. Since then, Shaka Smart and the Rams have made a name for themselves as a double-digit party crasher, highlighted by a 2011 run to the Final Four as a No. 11 seed.

Tenacious defense is a trademark of the Rams, and Akron might have their hands full keeping control of the ball. Akron turns the ball over 14 times a game and the Rams force 19.9 turnovers a game to lead the nation.

Missouri had a successful first season in the SEC by and large, but they struggled with consistency in the second half of the season. Since losing to UCLA on Dec. 28, the Tigers were only able to put together one three-game winning streak. That, paired with two consecutive opening NCAA Tournament losses, make the ninth-seeded Tigers a tough team to predict entering this tournament. However, Missouri is the second-best team in the country in rebounding, which should come in handy.

Game time, TV: Thursday, March 21, 9:20 p.m. ET, TBS