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2016 NCAA Wrestling Tournament -- Session I
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2016
Time: 11 AM CT
Location: Madison Square Garden (New York City, NY)
TV/Streaming: ESPNU / WatchESPN
Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network (free); Hawkeye All-Access ($); Tune-In Radio (maybe?)
Twitter: @IowaWRLive, @IAWrestle
Tickets: n/a
The NCAA Tournament gets underway this morning at 11 AM CT. ESPNU will have footage from the first round, but every match will be available via WatchESPN. I'll do my best to keep the mat assignments updated in the comments.
Bracket: click here
Live Scoreboard: click here
And here are Iowa's nine first round matches. They'll be favored to win 8 of them -- all but 165. To mount a challenge for the national title, Iowa needs to do three things: keep wrestlers alive on the championship half of the bracket as long as possible, get as many bonus points as possible, and do damage in the consolation bracket when/if they get sent down there. They can't do anything but that last point just yet -- they just need to avoid the consolation bracket as long as possible. Hopefully Iowa can win all of these R1 matches (including the upset at 165) and pick up some bonus points along the way.
WT | IOWA WRESTLER | OPPONENT | |
125 | #4 Thomas Gilman | vs | UN Brent Fleetwood, Central Michigan |
133 | #2 Cory Clark | vs | UN Jade Rauser, Utah Valley |
141 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
149 | #2 Brandon Sorensen | vs | UN Nick Barber, Eastern Michigan |
157 | #13 Edwin Cooper, Jr. | vs | UN Tyler Berger, Nebraska |
165 | UN Patrick Rhoads | vs | #13 Jim Wilson, Stanford |
174 | #13 Alex Meyer | vs | UN Gordon Wolf, Lehigh |
184 | #2 Sammy Brooks | vs | UN John Lampe, Chattanooga |
197 | #4 Nathan Burak | vs | UN Trent Noon, Northern Colorado |
285 | #11 Sam Stoll | vs | UN Boyce Cornwell, Gardner Webb |
I'll try to post results and limited PBP in the comments. I'll also try to update the mat assignments in the comments.
The usual rules apply.