NCAA Tournament 2019: Winners and Losers of Tuesday’s First Four Games

The 2019 NCAA men’s basketball tournament is officially underway as the opening pair of First Four games kicked things off Tuesday in Dayton, Ohio.

The Fairleigh Dickinson Knights defeated the Prairie View A&M Panthers 82-76 in the early game, coming back from a 13-point second-half deficit. They earned the right to play No. 1 Gonzaga on Thursday.nfl nike jersey cheap

No. 11 seeds Temple and Belmont faced off in the second, and Belmont prevailed 81-70. They move on to face No. 6 Maryland in the East region during the round of 64.

Here are the winners and losers from the first day of March Madness action.

FDU senior guard Darnell Edge was electric Tuesday night,cheap nike nfl jersey  leading all scorers with 33 points on 9-of-13 shooting and knocking down seven three-pointers in nine attempts.

The Knights literally got nothing from their bench. The five starters scored all 82 of their points, with Jahlil Jenkins adding 22 alongside Edge’s scoring outburst. Without the same depth as Prairie View cheap nfl nike jersey they needed Edge and the rest of the starters to step up in a big way.

They did.cheap nike nfl jerseys wholesale

This would’ve been the first NCAA tournament win for either school in the early play-in game.

The Panthers have only qualified for the Big Dance one other time in program history, losing as a No. 16 seed to Paul Pierce and the top-ranked Kansas Jayhawks in 1998.

Twenty-one years later, they’re still searching for their first March Madness win. They had their chance to secure it, leading by as many as 13 points in the second half before a late collapse left them as a one-and-done for the tournament.cheap nfl jerseys china nike

Meanwhile, FDU picked up its first win after five prior losses, even if its tournament run will likely come to an end Thursday when the No. 16 seed faces No. 1 Gonzaga.nike nfl jerseys cheap china