Wow. What a first day... Especially for the big-money that makes this game slavery these days...

I really hope you enjoyed that bore of a first day.

While you try to process some of what happened, here's some reality that people I've talked to on the subject would like to remind you as the lack of upsets (one real upset all day) breaks brackets:

• Turner and CBS are in the middle of a 23-year deal that will net the NCAA $19,600,000,000.  (That's almost TWENTY BILLION.) (CNN from last year, when Turner and CBS added almost $9 billion to the kitty to go from 2025 to 2032.)
• For this, the average supposed-full ride scholarship, even though men's basketball is supposed to provide a full ride by NCAA rule, only covers about 80%  of the expenses.
• In contrast, some of the coaches make a shit-ton.

Here are some numbers of that for you from USA Today:

• Mike Krzyzewski:  $7.3 million.
• John Calipari for One and Done U:  $6.875 million
• Sean Miller and Bill Izzo:  About $5 million apiece.
• USA Today found 38 college coaches at the Division I men's level making $1 million or more.

So pardon some people if they aren't so enamored with the Northwestern story.

And, yes, it was rigged by The Powers That Be.  Given the chance by a late Vanderbilt comeback, the refs screwed them, and then the inexplicable foul from 15 seconds before gave them cover.

Watch the replay of the tap closely on the three-point miss if you don't believe me.