Notables

For all the talk about the Midwest-West bracket in the Division III men's basketball tournament, there weren't any upsets the first weekend in that group. Every game played out the way the D3hoops.com Top 25 voters would have told you.

However, that wasn't the case in the two right-hand brackets. Those brackets got further unloaded on Saturday night, when No. 9 Middlebury and No. 12 Ithaca lost home games after getting first-round byes.

The two schools, which seemed shoo-ins to host sectionals, went one-and-out, with Bridgewater State and DeSales advancing, respectively. Instead, those sectionals went to Richard Stockton and Franklin and Marshall. John Carroll and Wheaton (Ill.) host the other two men's sectionals, while Amherst, Illinois Wesleyan, Rochester and Thomas More host the women's sectionals.

"It's definitely tough when you know that you got what you wanted and we could have came out with a victory," Sean Burton told The Ithaca Journal. "But you have to give them credit. We didn't make our shots, and that's all there is to it."

That's one of the best things about tournament time, the unpredictability.

"No one had us beating them," Bridgewater State coach Joe Farroba told The Enterprise, in Brockton, Mass. "If you'd told me in October we'd be going to the Sweet 16, I'd have asked you what you were smoking."

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