March Sadness – Round of 32 – Day Two 2026

With the right-hand side of our bracket set, we now move to the left, Regions C and N! Fun! Polls will stay open until 10 PM EDT today. Vote your heart.


With the right-hand side of our bracket set, we now move to the left, Regions C and N! Fun! Polls will stay open until 10 PM EDT today. Vote your heart.


Hockey jerseys no contain magic?
I love how Jim Nantz every year has to go from March Madness to The Masters two days later.
The Red Sox players performing well in the WBC is a positive sign for the season to come, right?
Upton Bell’s Father Bert Bell who founded the Philadelphia Eagles wanted Green from the very beginning.
Would totally watch a “Swingers”-style comedy starring Andy Wong, JStew, Sarge, and that other charmless slob.
Alex Caruso would be a beloved Celtic. I really believe that.
I’ve deleted a post incorrectly identifying who was suspended today. It was Johan Rojas of the Philadelphia Phillies who was suspended.
News Item: Bryce Huff announced that he is starting a company called Neighborstone, which will build safety infrastructure to help with fire risk on lithium-ion batteries.
I guess I’ll root for whichever team from a Massachusetts college or university made it into the Tournament.
Cakes are cooking for Carl Gottlieb, Drew Struzan, Brad Dourif, Rick Martel, Irene Cara, Luc Besson, James McMurtry, Bonnie Blair, Jerry Cantrell, Queen Latifah, Adam Levine, Chad Cordero, Lily Collins, and J.T. Realmuto.
Good to have an old-school Twitter night on tap (hopefully). #Oscars
I’m so damn proud of our gold medal winning sled hockey team. I hope someday to learn what their names are.
Åberg? Å no!
Meal prep, bro. Nothing like planning to essentially eat leftovers every day.
Sorry if I missed your tags today. I’m a little laid up w my back.
AI coach already telling me to tone down my weightlifting 10 days out from 20-mile race. This is the robot trying to weaken the man in order to take over the world. Cannot be fooled.
The winner of the WBC should face the winner of the NBA Cup.
Food cleanse includes booze? WTF.
I’m pretty sure there were entire months where the Revs didn’t score 6 total goals. Good job.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it’s good practice to keep your cream out of the refrigerator during coffee drinking hours; they don’t call it “table cream” for nothin’.
Hey gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “Playing in the NFL is pretty cool, but ya know what’s *really* cool? Preventing lithium battery fires.”
I watched “Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare” last night on HBO and I can’t remember the last time a documentary brought me to tears that much.
Blue Line: Delays of about 10 minutes while a maintenance train inspects the overhead wires between Airport and Wonderland. Trains may stand by at stations.
The black dog and the wandering boy
Come around every night.
The wandering boy never gets any older
The black dog doesn’t bite.
He just sits on the floor at the corner of the bed
Watching for the things that haunt.
They oughta both go away when I take my meds:
But they don’t.
Hey, somebody lie to me
Hey, somebody lie to me.
There is no greater Lenten sacrifice than choosing a hot buttered lobster roll as your meatless Friday meal.
My lawyer laughed at “dipshit”.
Just so everyone knows: true NCAA tournament “upsets” begin at 4-13. And don’t even think about 9 over 8.
Honk if you remember the Gardner Museum heist.
Do you guys ever think about how epic Anya Taylor-Joy’s peripheral vision must be?
“Dubai Chocolate” is the weirdest psyop I’ve ever encountered.
You can tell I’m a weather enthusiast because I measure rainfall to the hundredth of an inch.
That wasn’t quite the St. Crispin’s Day speech, Aaron.
The clump of confiscated gallon containers of booze is a welcome addition to St. Patrick’s Day Parade B-roll footage.
Welcome Boston Legacy FC.
Maybe should have boiled the corned beef for another hour.
I wonder if any former Patriots player and a current Celtics player were ever guests on the Tonight Show before. Probably not.
Can’t put all your hopes into a Zacha hat trick every game.
Best bet for the weekend: Flag Football, what else?

Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Meta, other writers, league and team sources, Joe Giza, and the members of #the15 were used in this column. Let’s dance.


Today we will look to the right-hand side of the bracket, with Region V and Region T. It’s a shame half of them have to lose. Polls will close at 9 PM EDT.


And the thrilling conclusion to the March Sadness first round commences today! Polls will close at 11:00 PM EDT.


Some great matchups today. Polls will remain open a little longer today, until 11 PM EDT.

I never hear anything about Tatum’s rehab except for people bitching about always hearing about it.
Do fake food allergies count abroad?
You’re laughing? I’m groggy because I had an hour of my life stolen from me and you’re laughing? (The hour I lost was from watching the premiere episode of ‘R.J. Decker’.)
In today’s NFL you need a roster with a mix of hyphens and apostrophes in the names to succeed.
The NBA should store all evidence of Edrice Adebayo’s 83 point game in the same vault they keep the “proof” of Wilt’s “100 point game.”
And no, I ain’t calling a grown man, ‘Bam.’
Wonder how many Bruins fans are aware TDGarden each night offers $5 draft beer (12 oz)?
How do we convince Yoshi to play for the Red Sox like he does in World Baseball Classic games?
It’s not plagiarism if no one hears it.
Cakes are cooking for Rupert Murdoch, Sam Donaldson, Mark Stein, Bobby McFerrin, Nina Hagen, Curtis Brown, Rob Paulsen, Cheryl Lynn, James Pinkerton, Mike Percy, Alex Kingston, Wallace Langham, John Barrowman, Rami Jaffee, Johnny Knoxville, Adam Wakeman, Bobby Abreu, Becky Hammon, Benji Madden, Joel Madden, Elton Brand, Thora Birch, Anthony Davis, and Jodie Comer.
Fun fact: Jason Tatum had his face tattooed on his repaired Achilles tendon.
Nice weather we’re having, eh?
Hold onto your hats but I have a crush on the white girl from Duke.
I don’t know how to pronounce ‘Doubs.’
Complain more about McAvoy playing “hero ball.”
Watching 3 basketball games at once is terrible.
Blue Line: Delays of about 10 minutes while a maintenance train inspects the overhead wires between Airport and Wonderland. Trains may stand by at stations.
Knowing the name of an NBA official is a warning sign, like a check engine light.
Hey gang of tournament enjoyers! This week’s Phrase that Pays is, “They hear us.’
I’m gonna get in the car
Drive away
Drive so far
No one’s gonna find me
Put my foot on the gas
Accelerate
Drive so fast
No one’s gonna catch me.
Gonna get in the car
Drive away
Drive so far
No one’s gonna find me
Put my foot on the gas
Accelerate
Drive so fast
No one’s gonna catch me.
It’s about time for CHB to plague poor Bob Cousy and his family by heading off to Worcester to ask the 97-year-old legend whom Pritchard reminds him of.
So Brady is a witless incompetent GM who screwed up a simple trade, correct?
That’s the way this works.
Best of luck tomorrow against Miami of Ohio, UMass.
Sealants!
Really weird when a random old Red Sox game is on NESN+ and you realize pretty quickly you were at it.
Honk if you remember New York Jet QB Geno Smith. I have news about that.
A man broke my Nespresso machine! A one-armed man! You find that man!
Who is your favorite sports agent or agency? Let us know in the comments.
You can tell I’m a serious basketball fan because I refer to a flagrant as an F1.
Kyle Teel is Italian? Austin Wells is Dominican?
Stick tap to the Selection Committee.
Best bet for the weekend: a Donaldbrook over to Southie, kid.

Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Meta, other writers, league and team sources, Joe Giza, Old Friends Lebron and Canadian Soldier, and the members of #the15 were used in this column. Don’t worry. Be happy.


In either a stinging rebuke of the Selection Committee’s choices, or a positive affirmation of their Wild Card selections, the voters have swept all four wild cards to victory over their normally seeded opponents. What a moment! Polls for the first full day of the Tournament will remain open until 9 PM EDT tonight, March 10th. Please enjoy.


Here we go, the official start of March Sadness! RA! Stiz! Scaz! Rueb! Wild cards, or carney slang from the 1930’s? You be the judge of that!
Polls will close at 9:00 PM EDT, Btw.



Play -in Games Region C 10 Seed Dave O’Brien (NESN) vs wild card Brian “Rear Admiral” McGonagle (Barstool), Region V 16 Seed Travis Thomas (NESN) vs wild card James “Scaz” Scaramozzino (98.5), Region N 12 Seed Mark Daniels (MassLive) vs wild card Stanley “Stiz Grimey” Bruno (WEEI), and Region T 15 Seed Chris Forsberg (NBCSB) vs wild card Eric Rueb (ProJo).
The play-in games will be on Monday, March 9th. The rest of the field will begin on Tuesday March 10th, then Thursday and Friday of that week.


Oyez, oyez! All those having business before the Tournament Selection Collaborative Committee of The15net dot com division of The Local Collaborative, take care and know the following will comprise the Field of 68 in the 6th Annual Mediot Madness/March Sadness Tournament:
Radio – Christian Arcand (WEEI) Marc Bertrand (98.5) Mike Felger (98.5) Andy Hart (WEEI) Greg Hill (WEEI) Ted Johnson (WEEI) Adam Jones (WEEI) Rich Keefe (WEEI) Joe Murray (98.5) Rob “Hardy” Poole (98.5) Nick “Fitzy” Stevens (WEEI) Fred Toucher (98.5) Scott Zolak (98.5)
Print – Peter Abraham (Globe) Andrew Callahan (Herald) Mark Daniels (MassLive) Kevin Paul Dupont (Globe) Chad Finn (Globe) Chris Gasper (Globe/98.5) John Karalis (SI) Doug Kyed (Herald) Sean McAdam (MassLive) Dan Shaughnessy (Globe) Christopher Smith (MassLive) Gabrielle Starr (Herald) Gary Washburn (Globe)
Television – Albert Breer (NBCSB) Lucille Burdge (NESN) Tom Caron (NESN) Jared Carrabis (NESN/98.5/Underdog) Drew Carter (NBCSB) Trenni Casey (NBCSB) Chris Forsberg (NBCSB) Lou Merloni (NESN) Kevin Millar (NESN) Dave O’Brien (NESN) Phil Perry (NBCSB) Brian Scalabrine (NBCSB) Travis Thomas (NESN)
Digital – Brian Barrett (The Ringer) Greg Bedard (BSJ) Rob Bradford (Audacy/WEEI) Mike Giardi (BSJ) Joe Haggerty (BSJ) Grant “Hogdale” Huckdale (Barstool) Jeff Howe (The Athletic) Mike Kadlick (CLNS) Taylor Kyles (CLNS) Evan Lazar (Patriots) Bob Ryan (CLNS/Globe) Jerry Thornton (Barstool) John Zannis (CLNS)
At large – Cerrone Battle (98.5) Tom “Freeze Pops” Carroll (WEEI) Courtney Cox (WEEI) Chris Curtis (WEEI) Mark Dondero (98.5) Michael Hurley (???) Kendra Middleton (98.5) Matt McCarthy (98.5) Jim Murray (98.5) Meghan Ottolini (WEEI/Celtics) Jimmy Stewart (98.5) Matt Vautour (MassLive)
This years Wild Card play-in contestants- Stanley “Stiz Grimey” Bruno (WEEI) Brian “Rear Admiral” McGonagle (Barstool) Eric Rueb (ProJo), James “Scaz” Scaramozzino (98.5). They will participate in the 4 play-in games in advance of Round One.

Brackets will be announced on Sunday, March 8th, Wild Cards go on Monday, then the First-Round matchups begin in earnest on Tuesday, March 10th.
