Rosenblog: Tracking the NCAA tournament

11:10 a.m.: OK, there's Gumbel, Anthony and Davis, and there's Gumbel with news that Villanova coach Jay Wright pulled Scottie Reynolds and Corey Fisher from the starting lineup as part of a "teaching point.'' But the real point is that they will play pretty quick off the bench and play as much as they need to wipe out 15-seed Robert Morris, you betcha.
11:20 a.m.: Kevin Harlan on the call for BYU-Florida. Do people know how good he is? Better than BYU and Florida, for now, after each team threw the ball out of bounds on their first possessions and each missed shots on their second.

11:23 a.m.: CBS switches out of BYU-Florida to Notre Dame-Old Dominion. Dick Enberg and Jay Bilas on the call. I used to love Enberg. Used to. I still love Bilas. The Irish win the tip. There's almost nobody in the expensive seats. Please, people, use your tickets because that seating color scheme could cause seizures.

11:27 a.m.: The game after ND-OD in New Orleans is Baylor-Sam Houston State. There's a story propagated in Dan Rather's book that the school used to be known as the Sam Houston Institute of Technology. It's a myth. A fun myth, not to mention a wonderful sweat shirt, but a myth. Still, the idea was appropriated in the 2006 movie "Acceptance'' for the South Harmon Institute of Technology.

11:41 a.m. The Irish are using clock like they were on commission. It's even more effective when Old Dominion shoots quickly and can't rebound. Just like that a 15-6 lead on a 10-0 Irish run.

11:43 a.m.: But then OD starts pounding the offensive boards to spark a 7-0 run and has a five-point trip thanks to the Irish saving the ball under their opponent's basket. Who taught them that?

11:45 a.m.: TV timeout with 7:01 to go in the first half and Notre Dame up 18-15. First commercial is a Southwest Airlines spot where a line of baggage handlers pull up their shirts to reveal chest painting that spells out "Bags fly free.'' Yes, baggage handlers. Raise your hand if you choked on a wing right then?

11:50 a.m.: CBS updates BYU-Florida, then Robert Morris leading Villanova. Meanwhile, Notre Dame scored five points and we don't know how. Thanks loads.

11:55 a.m.: Has the NHL suspended James Wisniewski yet?

11:57 a.m.: Old Dominion is 0-for-7 from beyond the arc. And not much better everywhere else as the irish go up 26-17.

Noon: I just checked. "Community,'' "Parks and Recreation,'' "The Office'' and "30 Rock'' are all new, so someonebody else can blog Marquette. And then comes Blackhawks-Kings a night after Brent Seabrook nearly went on life support. Has Wisniewski been suspended yet?

12:04 p.m.:Halftime, ND 28, OD 22. Funnyhow the big-time team is slowing it down to frustrate the mid-major, but it's working.

12:06 p.m.: Bonus viewing note: DVR the Biography channel's "Animal House: The Inside Story" and "Caddyshack: The Inside Story." Each is a two-hour visit back to the creation, writing, casting, acting -- just everything told by the people who created, write, cast and acted in two of the greatest movies ever made. Caddyshack nugget: The guy who played Noonan might kill you if you call him Noonan on the street.

12:10 p.m.: Villanova is losing by seven to 15th-seeded Robert Morris late in the first half? If they can keep it up, perhaps 15s will become the new 12.

12:15 p.m.: BYU leads Florida by two at half, which reminds me: I don't recoil at the thought of Gators coach Billy Donovan the way a lot of people did when he was winning back-to-back titles. I always thought John Calipari was more stomach-turning. Does that make me a bad person?

12:18 p.m.: Robert Morris now leads Villanova 28-19 with less than three minutes to go in the first half. That small "teaching point'' that Villanova coach Jay Wright cited as the reason he did not start Corey Fisher and Scottie Reynolds? Perhaps it was to teach himself that college sports is no place for a conscience.

12:21 p.m.: Waiting for the second half of ND-OD, and I'm thinking, with all the discussion about Wisniewski's dirty, evil hit on Seabrook, we haven't talked about Corey Crawford suddenly showing up in the Hawks net. At first, it sounded like he got called up to back up Antti Niemi after Cristobal Huet came down the with flu. But then he starts against Anaheim, and other than running off the leash on the play that turned into a Ducks shorthanded goal, the kid played well enough to win. Tell you what, this is no backup plan. Joel Quenneville looks at goalies like this: Last guy to win, wins the job. Failing that, Quenneville will go with the guy less likely to kill his team's reason for living. OK, back to the tournament.

12:28 p.m.: Notre Dame's four-corner offense is now painful to watch, what with six turnovers in 12 possessions and several other one-and-done trips. The Irish lead is 30-29 four minutes into the second half.

12:33 p.m.: Just read our Chicago Breaking Sports piece on Milton Bradley losing track of outs, this time when he was batting. He was so bad for the Cubs, but so good for sportswriters.

12:36: p.m.: The Irish have blown their six-point halftime lead, scoring just two points in the first 6:30 of the second half, inclouding a couple by Luke harangody, who's showing why he deserves to be coming off the bench.

12:44 p.m.: Has Luke Harangody always been as soft around the basket as he has been in the second half so far?

12:47 p.m.: Dang it. I blew it. Commenter Lyle Clark pointed out that my South Harmon Institute of Technology came from "Accepted,'' not "Acceptance,'' which is what I wrote and which is a movie about a woman having a quarter-life crisis.

12:51 p.m.: Ben Hansbrough is having a great game, leading the Irish with 17 of their first 43 points and grabbing as many rebounds as Luke Harangody.

12:58: With 5:49 to go, Old Dominion has tied Notre Dame at 43, and Luke Harangody has just missed another shot about 15 feet form the basket. He's 0-for-8 for the game, and why is he 15 feet from the basket?

1:04 p.m.: The Irish have gone almost four minutes without making a basket.

1:07 p.m.: ODU hits a three to take a 46-43 lead, but Carleton Scott hits a three to tie it at 46 with 1:47 to go, Notre Dame's first basket is about six minutes.

1:09 p.m.: Luke Harangody misses again, 0-for-9 for the game. Why is he still in there? Why is he still shooting?

1:11 p.m.: The Irish trail by three with 29.6 to go. ODU misses a free throw. Now 25 seconds to go, Irish ball, timeout. Ben Hansbrough or Carleton Scott better take the shot. You hear that, Luke Harangody?

1:14 p.m.: Omigod, Luke Harangody has a basket, a follow in which he actually went hard to the basket. Irish down by one, ODU ball, 12.6 seconds to go.

1:16 p.m.: Jay Bilas narrates a CBS replay of Luke Harangody's basket, which shouldn't have counted because Carleton Scott missed a dunk, then touched the loose ball as he hung on the rim, a violation that wasn't called before Harangody put it back.

1:19 p.m.: The sixth-seeded Irish blow their first-round game to 11th-seeded Old Dominion, the first game, the first team likely to have ruined your bracket. But hey, maybe 11 is the new 12.

1:23 p.m.: Notre Dame played its plodding game, Old Dominion went to a zone, and the Irish couldn't shoot them out of that defense, shooting just 35.6 percent from the floor, a putrid 6-for-26 from beyond the arc. Happy day after St. Patrick's Day.

1:27 p.m.: BYU and Florida are in overtime, shooting and running and not guarding anybody. This is entertaining, not like Notre Dame giving up roundball valium.

1:29 p.m.: Robert Morris is up on Villanova by eight with four minutes to go. This might not be the Big East's day.

1:38 p.m.: Florida's Chandler Parsons missed a three, but BYU's Jimmer Fredette turned it back over with 19 seconds to go overtime in a tie game. But Florida took a stupid shot that looked more like a volleyball play, so we go to a second overtime.

1:40 p.m.: Ten minutes of real time and three minutes of game time was all it took for Villanova to catch Robert Morris at 55 with 1:34 to go.

1:43 p.m.: No, wait, Robert Morris is up by two with 63 seconds left. You never know.

1:47 p.m.: CBS finally switches to Villanova-Robert Morris with 25.4 seconds to go in a tie game that could wipe out a No. 2 seed. Nova stood around before executing a potential winning play atrociously, then missed an alley-oop at the buzzer. Overtime.

1:53 p.m.: BYU looks like it will beat Florida with 33 seconds to go, so get us back to Villanova-Robert Morris, CBS. Nope. Commercials. Then Florida-BYU again. Thanks loads.

1:56 p.m.: BYU beats Florida 99-92, its first win since 1993. The Cougars' star, Jimmer Fredette shot 13-of-26 from the floor and would seem to be a candidate for the tournament's All-Name team.

1:58 p.m.: We get back to Villanova-Robert Morris with 2:41 left in overtime and Nova leading 64-60. Robert Morris has had three players foul out, two of them starters. Yeah, they had to get it done in regulation.

2:04 p.m.: One ref has a jump ball, one has a foul. Robert Morris has the arrow with 52.2 to play and Nova up 67-63. The foul call stands. But only one free throw falls, and now Robert Morris hits two foul shots. Now Robert Morris steals the ball and lays it in to pull within 68-67 with 35.5 to play. Maybe the Robert Morrises CAN get it done in OT.

2:09 p.m.: No. 2-seeded Villanova hit two free throws to take a 70-67 lead with 28 seconds to go. No. 15-seeded Robert Morris got a layup swatted and Reggie Redding had an open-court lay-in, but he ran away from the hoop, trying to burn clock instead of making it a five-point lead with 15 seconds to go. Redding took the foul, made only one of two free throws, and then Robert Morris came back with a three to make it 71-70 with 10 seconds left. Scottie Reynolds made two free throws to make it 73-70, Nova, with 9.1 to go. Robert Morris missed a three at the end. The No. 2 seed survived. Man, I would've loved to have seen millions of bracket sheets spontaneously combust.

2:19 p.m.: I have no idea how we got to 18-16, 14th-seeded Sam Houston over third-seeded Baylor, but that's where we are. And we're at 36-32, No. 13 Murray State over No. 4 Vanderbilt. By the way, has James Wisniewski been suspended by the NHL yet?

2:28 p.m.: Now we switch to Kansas State-North Texas State.  I couldn't be more non-plussed, but the earlier 2-15 game gives me some hope.

2:44 p.m.: K-State-North Texas is one bad game. Eight-eight is either the score or the bad plays for each team, and neither choice is wrth risking having my eyeballs explode.

2:48 p.m.: Does CBS know that K-State-North Texas is a bad game and that 13-seeded Murray State is leading Vanderbilt by six in the second half? And that that would be a good game to switch to? Hel-LO.

2:52 p.m.: OK, the K-State-North Texas game just got more interesting after CBS showed a graphic of notable North Texas alumni, one of whom is Don Henley. In fact, he named The Eagles after the former North Texas nickname -- Eagles. My Eagles starting five: "James Dean,'' "Already Gone,'' "Life in the Fast Lane,'' "Heartache Tonight,'' and the live version of "Hotel California.''

3:08 p.m.: North Texas State missed 11 of 12 shots and still trailed by only 10. I can't watch this. Switch, pretty please with sugar on top.

3:21 p.m.: Mercifully, K-State-North Texas State goes to halftime. K-State leads, 41-25, in somethingthat constitutes visual torture. Still no Murray State trying to upset Vanderbilt. Guess CBS doesn't think anyone would find that interesting at this time of year.

3:25 p.m.: Now CBS gives us Sam Houston leading Baylor, a 14 over a 3, but there are still 12 minutes left, while Murray State is about two minutes away from a 13-4 upset.

3:26 p.m.: Yes, finally, Murray State-Vanderbilt, the underdog Racers leading Jay Cutler's school by two with two minutes to go.

3:27 p.m.: And now a commercial. Sheesh.

3:40 p.m.: Murray State milks the clock beautifully, then omigod, turns it over. Vandy timeout, 21 seconds to go, down 64-63. Vandy runs a backdoor play. Jermaine Beal is fouled with 12.7 to go. He sinks the first to tie it. And hits the second to put the favorite up by one. Murray State misses a three, but the loose ball goes off a Baylor player with 4.2 seconds to go. By the way, has the NHl suspended James Wisniewski yet? Murray State runs a couple screens, passes up a desperation shot with two seconds left, and the patience pays off as Danero Thomas hits a jumper with no time left, 66-65, 13 over 4. Glad CBS finally got around to switching to this game.

3:48 p.m.: Baylor is only tied with Sam Houston State, a 3 battling a 14, with three minutes to go. Gee, and I was looking forward to being bored by K-State-North Texas State.

3:52 p.m.: And as soon as we get the game, Baylor runs off eight straight points. But Sam Houston get a bucket, Baylor misses, than fouls Sma Houston under the basket for an and-1. Sam Houston misses and has to foul. It's 65-59 with 30 seconds to go, and we could be here a while.

3:57 p.m.: No upset. Baylor holds on. Now on to St. Mary's-Richmond in the second half.

4:08 p.m.: Our Blackhawks Guy, Chris Kuc, is reporting that multiple outlets say Anaheim's James Wisniewski has been suspended eight games for his dirty, evil hit that appeared to knock Hawks defenseman Brent Seabrook into next summer. If it's true, it's a monumental indicted of referees Paul Devorski and Ian Walsh, who assessed Wisniewski only a minor charging penalty. If the refs had been awake Wednesday night, the Hawks would've had a five-minute power play and perhaps taken control of a game they would lose in many painful ways.

4:34 p.m.: Why do we have to watch more K-State-North Texas State when it's a 21-point game with two minutes to go? Tell you what, I'd like to suspend the CBS decision-maker for eight games.

4:48 p.m.: St. Mary's was seeded 10th, but opened as a 1 1/2-point favorite against seventh-seeded Richmond at the Las Vegas Hilton. Smart money pounded Richmond into a 1 1/2-point favorite by tipoff. St. Mary's 80, Richmond 71. That's some smart money.

4:59 p.m.: Greg Gumbel just said see ya. All righty then. If CBS is done, then so am I.