Winthrop makes some noise; giving Memphis props

	Craig Bradshaw had 24 points as the 11th-seeded Eagles knocked off No. 6 seed Notre Dame. AP
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SI.com caught up with Seth Davis, who's serving as a CBS studio analyst during the tournament, to get his impressions of Friday's tournament action.

SI.com: We talked about Thursday's upset in VCU-Duke, how about Friday's edition of Winthrop over Notre Dame?

Seth Davis: I'm calling that a technical upset, because if they played 10 times, each team would win five games, they're that evenly matched. What really shocked me was the way that Notre Dame shot at the foul line. It came in -- we were talking about this in the studio, as it was getting to crunch time -- ranked 18th in the country in foul shooting. Winthrop was 314th, so you'd think "advantage Notre Dame," but the Irish went 4-for-13 from the foul line and lost by 10. After they came all the way back from being down by 20 and really being run out of the gym, then to not make their free throws -- it's not just a matter of those shots -- that changed the whole dynamic of the game.

Winthrop was terrific. It played really well. It has Oregon in the next round and that's going to be entertaining. Both of those teams can really score. Winthrop has a big kid in Craig Bradshaw, he's from New Zealand, and can shoot threes. He's not usually the kind of big player you see on a mid-major.

SI.com: Which one of those two remaining little guys do you think has the best shot at busting some brackets?

SD: I like VCU. I like contrasting matchups and for Winthrop to run into Oregon, they play similar styles. VCU-Pitt is a contrast. The really interesting thing for me is what do you do with Aaron Gray? Do you try to run with VCU? Go small and deal with its ball pressure? To do that, you'd have to sit down Gray, who is Pitt's most dangerous weapon. I think VCU has really been shooting well the last three weeks. The Rams are shooting well from three-point range and when those shots are falling, they're very good at creating opportunities to score. I really think Pitt's going to have its hands full there and I'm calling the upset.

SI.com: How about that Kentucky-Villanova game?

SD: When we were talking about that in the studio, I was talking about Villanova, and Clark Kellogg had something to say, just as the producer told us to wrap it up. I asked him off the air what it was he wanted to say and he said he liked Kentucky in that one because he liked Randolph Morris. He was exactly right; Morris had a good game and Kentucky won because of it.

You know, another thing about Kentucky: Tubby Smith has never lost a first-round game. For any of those Kentucky fans who are ready to run him out of town, they also better be ready to lose in the first round, because it just doesn't happen under him.

SI.com: A couple of high seeds in No. 2 Memphis and No. 1 Wisconsin survived scares. Can you talk about those two games a bit?

SD: I give Memphis a lot of credit. The Tigers really know who they are. They share the ball well on offense and they come at you on defense -- then keep coming and coming. They never panicked and showed great poise. They beat a really, really great team. That game was a great example of North Texas having trouble because it plays the same style as Memphis. he Mean Green would have been better off trying to slow it down. Memphis now has a very tough matchup in Nevada. Nevada will have to play well to beat Memphis -- and the Wolf Pack played well Friday -- so I'll call that upset for you, too.

As for Wisconsin, I really thought the Badgers were in trouble. It was still a two-point game with seven or eight minutes left. Wisconsin had surged back, not with any spurts, but just chipping its way back. I made the comment on-air that if Texas A&M Corpus Christi could just hang on with them until there were three minutes left then Wisconsin would be in trouble. The Islanders let it slip away, though. Kammron Taylor had a great game. He had 24 points and I still don't know how, but the kid who came up really big was Jason Bohannon. He's an X-factor for them because he can make those outside shots, which is something they need without Brian Butch in the lineup.

Having said all that, I really like UNLV, although there's an injury issue with Wendell White. The Rebels will need him. UNLV is good. I talked to Lon Kruger a couple of weeks ago, and he was saying they've really had injury issues all season long and it wasn't until the last three or four weeks that everyone got healthy and if you look at that, that's when they went on their tear. They're really better than their record.