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Forty-eight hours into the NCAA Tournament and 32 teams have already been sent packing. But that's why they call it March Madness, baby (according to Dick Vitale). With only West Virginia suffering an upset to Dayton, the Big East marched ahead into the second round with five teams still alive. UConn and Villanova both tip off this afternoon, the former with Head Coach Jim Calhoun rested from illness and back in the fold. While most of the lower-seeded regional teams received their expected exits in the first round, Albany's Siena took down Ohio State in two overtimes last night. They will now look for a real Cinderella story against top-seeded Louisville tomorrow. And this has not been the week for the president to talk about athletics as the brackets he filled out are not looking too hot so far. After a day where half his picks were eliminated, he ended up 19-for-32 in his first round predictions. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer calls Obama's Midwest region "a disaster." At least apologizing to Coach K beats eating crow to Sarah Palin.

You've got your bracket filled out for the NCAA Tournament and you wanna cheer on the team you picked to win it all. But where does one go to root with like-minded fans? A new map from Mapfaced solves your problem! They have a list of 33 schools and the corresponding bars that will welcome your Carolina Blue, chant "Hoya Saxa!" with you, or enjoy your off-key singing of "On, Wisconsin!" Mapfaced even has the schools listed by tournament region for ease of use.

It's officially spring, and that means lots of NY Times wedding announcements. Twenty-six, to be exact.

Kevin Dailey, 36, salesman and promoter from Hudson County.

Everybody is getting screwed this year during March Madness! If you thought your brackets getting screwed left and right was bad, how bad would it suck to be one of the people busted Saturday by the NYPD at the height of gambling season. The NYPD raided a $45 million gambling ring with several locations in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens according to Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes. The raids led to the arrests of 10 people and the seizure of $300,000. The DA said a location in Chinatown was responsible for $14 million a year alone. The gambling ring was allegedly run by a Fukenese gang as a front for the Gambino crime family. Is it not time for the Chinese to step it up and run their own gambling rings? One of the Chinese men scoffed at the classification that they were Fukenese, insisting that he was Cantonese.

Let's step away from some of the more popular sports for a second. Move aside basketball and your NCAA Tournament. Take a chill pill baseball with your World Baseball Classic and Spring Training. Yesterday the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum hosted the Big Apple Grapple, which featuring the some of the world's best male and female arm wrestlers. All battling for NYC's King and Queen of Arms. Unfortunately, there are no results online for this scintillating display of strength.

OK, so Gothamist was talking about the NIT, but a #1 is still a #1, no? Yesterday the Manhattan Jaspers won their first round NIT game against the Maryland Terrapins. Sure, Maryland players and fans have no interest in the tournament (only 4,761 were at the game), but that's no really not much of an excuse. Win the win, Manhattan and Hofstra are now the only local men's basketball teams that are still playing in the post-season. Iona, Albany, Syracuse (which actually bills itself as "New York's College Team), Monmouth, and Seton Hall were all bounced from the NCAA Tournament already. For what it's worth, that tornament still has all its top seeds...so far.

It is an annual right of spring; “Selection Sunday” gives way to “Moaning Monday”, a chance for the teams who didn’t make the NCAA Tournament to complain. Florida State, Michigan, Cincinnati and Maryland are all grumbling today after not being invited to the big dance.

Gerry McNamara won a national title in his freshman year at Syracuse and he wasn’t going to miss the tournament in his senior year. McNamara hit a game tying three-pointer with 10 seconds left to force overtime in Syracuse’s 86-84 upset over UConn in the Big East Tournament.

A performance like the one last night can't be a good thing for the Illini. They were dominated by the Knights inside the paint during the first half of play. FDU outscored Illinois 20-10 and outrebounded them 21-12> By the end of the game, FDU had 42 rebounds to 30 by Illinois. Gothamist is pretty sure that everyone that has Illinois going anywhere in the tournament was sweating last night's game out.

Locally, the FDU Knights take on Illinois tonight at 9:40. They are the only local team in the New York area, but The Times says New York is well represented, at least player wise.

In New York City, the only taste of March Madness we had was the Big East Tournament, which St. John's didn't even participate in due to self-imposed penalties (not related to curfew-breaking strip club visits). "Big time" college ball will return to New York later this month in the form of the NIT.

FDU will now make their 4th trip to the tournament under coach Tom Green and its first since 1998. A tough road lies ahead for FDU as they will probably face one of the better teams in college basketball and history is against them. No NEC team has advanced out of the round of the first round in tournament history.

Gothamist agrees with Flores when he talks about New York kids: