Clarifying First Round Games

Note to the outstanding reporter Richard Hake of WNYC and staff: The Florida Gulf Coast/Fairleigh Dickinson, (A Gulf Coast rout win)  game was not in the first full round of the NCAA Tournament.

It was a “play in” game or for a few years, in annoying fashion called a first round game by the NCAA.

By either standard it was not a “full first round game.”

This year the NCAA has properly called the 32 games cutting the field from 64 to 32, first round games.It also is the first full round.