Friday 6-3-11 College Roundup: Good Day For #3 Seeds

Winning the first game of a regional is important. Since the NCAA tournament field expanded to 64 teams in 1999, just 13 of 192 teams (6.8 percent) have lost openers and come back to win regionals. Saturday is important too—82 percent of teams that have started 2-0 have gone on to win regionals. But of course, you can't go 2-0 if you don't start by going 1-0, and the teams that fell into losers' brackets Friday have daunting challenges ahead of them.

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