Cinderella didn’t take long to arrive to the dance, did she?

If there’s anything the first slate of games in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament taught us, it’s that March Madness is alive and well. Half of the teams played in the first day of the tournament and just as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, we already saw five games decided by one point – a first in NCAA history – to go with a handful of major upsets that have burst millions of brackets.

Sorry, but if you had Baylor and Iowa State advancing past UAB and Georgia State, respectively, you can’t have a do-over. Just throw your bracket in the trash and be on your way.

Both Baylor and Iowa State – third seeds in the tournament – were expected to make deep runs in the tournament. Sadly, their tourney run ended even before it began when both teams succumbed to a pair of 14 seeds who were given 500/1 odds each to win the tournament. This won’t make UAB and Georgia State any more appealing from a betting standpoint, but their respective one-point squeakers over Baylor and Iowa State is living proof that nothing is certain in this tournament.