NCAA Tournament Takes Day 1: Recapping a wild slate of games

Well, that was quite an evening.

The first four games of the NCAA tournament ran for nearly 11 hours, and featured a double-overtime game, the No. 2 team in the country losing to the No. 17, a game featuring 11 goals, and 

I've said it a million times, but this is what hockey is all about. Here are some beautiful takes just for you about a wild first day of the NCAA tournament:

Cornell 4, Michigan State 3

One of the big themes of the entire tournament was that 10 of the teams in it came from just two conferences: Hockey East (six) and the Big Ten (four). Two other conferences placed a pair of teams, including the ECAC. But one of those two participants was the automatic bid that a team earns for winning the conference postseason tournament. That lucky winner was Cornell, and they were taking o