tonight, vandy stomped west virginia, a five seed, by 18. then utep, featuring two lightening-quick guards of the type i've always hoped we could get at montana, together with a 6'5" polish center who set all kinds of school scoring records, took their 27 wins and perfect conference record into maples pavilion and got massacred, stanford up by 40 with a few minutes to go. so it looks like vandy is better than we knew, and even quality teams like utep can fall on the faces at the big dance.