First slate of games in the books

The morning/afternoon session of NCAA tournament games has come to an end, and was a good sign that this years tournament will be a dandy.

Butler and LSU went down to the wire, and Memphis survived a scare from fifteenth seeded Cal-State Northridge.

UCONN and North Carolina took care of business in their first round games, not being contested at all by their sixteenth seeded opponents. North Carolina's Ty Lawson missed the game due to his toe injury, but the Tar Heel's didn't need him at all.

In other games, Texas A&M beat BYU 79-66; Purdue escaped Northern Iowa 61-56, and Maryland pulled off the first upset of the tournament, beating California 84-71.