Day One is in the books, and sixteen teams have been given their handshakes and Certificates of Participation. Among them is Duke, who failed the reach the second round for the first time since '96. Since Duke-hate is second to only Yankee-hate in the land, that's going to make a lot of people happy.

B.C. represented well in Round One, sending Texas Tech and mercurial coach Bobby Knight back to Lubbock with an 84-75 win. Next up for the Eagles is old Big East foe Georgetown. The other Massachusetts team, Holy Cross, plays SIU late tonight; brew a pot of coffee and get ready for the upset.

However your bracket looks (the image here is an inexact approximation of ours), you're still better off gambling on the NCAAs than on baseball. Especially if you're a pugnacious player-manager with eyes on the Hall of Fame. Pete Rose fessed up that he bet on his Cincinnati Reds every single night, trying to bolster his case that his gambling was a sign of unswerving faith in his team, and not simple degeneracy. Bostonist maintains that Rose belongs in Cooperstown, but his plaque should be hung up the day after his passing, depriving him from Charlie Hustling himself for Hall-of-Famer autograph fees and promotional power.

The Celtics are in Dallas tonight; the Mavericks may very well join the trend of wearing green against the C's to confound the casual flipper-arounder. The Bruins came from out of nowhere and popped the Caps 4-3 in a shootout, clinging to their hopes of a late-season rally and a four-team trainwreck that will allow them to slip into the 8th-seed and a possible 2nd-round matchup with UCLA. Wait, we're getting our brackets mixed up.