March Madness 2010: Scores, Recaps & More From Day 2

March Madness wrapped up its second day of the 2010 Tournament Friday night, and in just two days the field has been narrowed from 64 teams to 32. While Friday's action did not have as many dramatic upsets as Thursday, there were several smaller upsets -- and one conference got its first win in twelve years. Scroll down for complete coverage.

• 2-seed West Virginia crushed Morgan State, 77-50.
• 12-seed Cornell upset Temple, becoming the first Ivy League team to win a Tournament game since 1998.
• Xavier held off 11-seed Minnesota, 65-54.
• Purdue resisted a late charge from 13-seed Siena, prevailing 72-64.
• Another 4-seed, the Wisconsin Badgers, barely held on against Wofford.
• Pitt easily took care of Oakland, 89-66.
• Missouri took down 7-seed Clemson, 86-78.
• Texas A&M sank 12-seed Utah State, 69-53.
• Gonzaga got off to a fast start against Florida State, and the 8-seed Bulldogs held on to win.
• 10-seed Georgia Tech edged Oklahoma State in Milwaukee.
• Michigan State narrowly avoided what would have been a big upset to 12-seed New Mexico State.
• 1-seed Duke obliterated Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 73-44.
• Ohio State sent home 15-seed UC Santa Barbara, 68-51.
• Cal took advantage of a big start to beat Louisville by 15.
• Syracuse, the other 1-seed playing today, took care of business against Vermont.
• In the final game of the first round, Maryland defeated Houston.

Comments

[Jack Pilgram]

05:03 PM on 03/21/2010

The Mid-West Bracket is wide open now that Kansas and Georgetown are knocked out. Many would think the Buckeyes can now coast through the Mid-West and onto the final four but they’ll have to get past Tennessee first, who has already beaten Kansas and Kentucky this year. Clearly Northern Iowa is not a team to take lightly even if they don’t move on, watch out. Any team can win on any given day.

Don’t know who go take? Check out these in depth prediction­s for every NCAA sweet sixteen game @ http://www­.lionsdenu­.com/march­-madness-2­010-sweet-­16-midwest­-bracket-u­ni-vs-msu-­tenn-vs-os­u/

Who do you got moving onto the Final Four from the Mid-west? I got Ohio State, and not because I am running with the favourite, but due to the fact that Evan Turner has three other players in Diebler, Buford and Lauderdale­.

[susankhbelen]

11:41 PM on 03/20/2010

Still love ya LOBOS. What an amazing thing to make it that far....

[goodpyr]

07:55 PM on 03/20/2010

What was that THUD in Oklahoma City? Rock Chalk Squawk Squawk

[raker]

02:42 PM on 03/20/2010

When did so-called March Madness become a big yearly annoyance, like mosquitoes in summer. It wasn't that long ago that it was only on the radar of sports fans. It must be some of the junk that came to fill in the void when news media changed their mission from reporting news to filling hours of TV time.

[Rockville]

01:17 PM on 03/20/2010

For a number of years we have had a "family basketball pool". It includes our children and some of their in-laws as well as my husband and I. Since all of us live in different states, it gives us something to talk about from afar. I have been the "commissio­ner", which only means I call for the brackets and "grade" them and then announce the results.

This year we joined the 21st century. We became a group in the NYT interactiv­e bracket . The brackets were much easier to fill in(!), and simple to "grade" since it is done instantly at the end of a game. For the first time everyone has been able to see everyone else's brackets! It's a great system and still fun to write back and forth. Go Big Red! - Where's UNC? - I've got Georgetown through to the final two! - Poor Siena.....­.

[Uchenna Oguekwe]

01:01 PM on 03/20/2010

I'm still sadden over Temple's loss. TU **sniff**

[who38]

12:54 PM on 03/20/2010

Fanned for wisdom and discernmen­t.

[Richard729]

12:09 PM on 03/20/2010

I guess I've been an Old Blue (Cal) for so long that I'm always impressed if their sports teams can get by the first round of the playoffs. Like so many of the Pac-10 schools which have had good to mediocre teams in their middle ranks over the years, there are few that ever reach national status like USC, Arizona and UCLA. Most of the time they implode as Cal's football team did in 2008. In 2009 they played miserably and their once-highl­y touted quaterback­, Nate Longshore, looked terrible even as Cal beat crosstown rival Stanford in their final season game.

Cal's basketball team also plays hot and cold like the Jekyll and Hyde team they've been a good part of this past season. It is only because of Arizona's fall from grace and UCLA's faltering basketball program that Cal got as far as they did.. Now, they will be up against a real tough perennial powerhouse­, Duke.

My most optimistic hope is that Cal plays a respectabl­e game and not get blown out. Having said that, Robert Louis Stevenson may have put a surprise ending to this decades-lo­ng horror story where I inwardly long for Cal to come up big in a big game. Old Blues never die, they just get a little more tarnished.

[LBPrep]

02:04 PM on 03/20/2010

GO BEARS!!

[Andrew Sansone]

12:05 PM on 03/20/2010

March Madness is shaping up to be an event the size of the Super Bowl. Social Media is playing a huge role. I talked about it on my show http://bit­.ly/bhwLx1

[mjc]

11:13 AM on 03/20/2010

Nothing makes me happier than to see the run and gun, macho muscle builders like the Hoyas and Louisville lose in the first round of this wonderful tournament­. Those two teams especially play basketball like it is some version of football, with no finesse, no ball placement to speak of at all. Watching Cornell made me realize just far afield those two teams are from playing the game the way it is meant to be played. And my favorite, Syracuse, gave spectators in the first twenty minutes a view of the game not seen in most contests.

[Higgs Boson]

02:16 AM on 03/20/2010

The NCAA college basketball tournament is the best sporting event of the year ..........­.......

[who38]

12:55 PM on 03/20/2010

Fanned for wisdom and discernmen­t.

[MikaS]

03:21 PM on 03/20/2010

Agreed!