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Basketball / NCAA tournament / Tampa plays host to a handful of first-round shockers By The Associated Press TAMPA, Florida - First Drake, then Connecticut. Vanderbilt and Clemson, too. If you're looking for Upset City, then Tampa's the place for buzzer-beaters and bracket-busters in the NCAA tournament. Advertisement Western Kentucky's Ty Rogers and San Diego's De'Jon Jackson made the shots of their lives Friday, sending their teams into the second round of the West Regional. Siena pulled off a shocker in the Midwest before Villanova made it a historic clean sweep - four teams seeded 12th or lower winning first-round games at the same site. A pair of No. 4 seeds and two No. 5s are headed home. "It's incredible. I'm sure this is going to be talked about. They're going to have some name for this," Villanova coach Jay Wright said after his Wildcats capped an upset-filled day with a 75-69 victory over Clemson. Tomorrow's second-round matchups: 12th-seeded Villanova vs. No. 13 Siena in the Midwest Region, followed by 12th-seed Western Kentucky against No. 13 San Diego in the West Region. "It's got to be the Tampa Turmoil or something," Wright said. "It's incredible what happened here today." All of the upsets were keyed by clutch shooting performances. First, Western Kentucky knocked off Drake 101-99 in overtime with Rogers making a desperation 26-footer, or eight-meter shot, at the buzzer. Then, Jackson hit a long jumper with 1.2 seconds left in overtime to oust UConn 70-69. Siena kept it going in the night session, leading from the start and sending Vanderbilt home, 83-62. Villanova made it 4-for-4, erasing an 18-point deficit thanks mostly to Scottie Reynolds' timely shooting in a 75-69 victory. It was the perfect ending for a zany day in Tampa, the first site in NCAA tournament history to have four 12 or lower seeds win. In fact, no other place had even had two in one day. "It's crazy," said Vanderbilt center A.J. Ogilvy, an Australian making his tournament debut. "It's why it's called madness." WEST REGION - SAN DIEGO 70, CONNECTICUT 69 OT Gyno Pomare had 22 points and Brandon Johnson added 18, but both fouled out and were not on the floor when Jackson's pull-up jumper gave the Toreros their first victory in four trips to the NCAA tournament. UConn (24-9) played most of the game without leading scorer A.J. Price, who suffered a knee injury midway through the opening half and did not return. The Huskies overcame an 11-point second-half deficit and led 69-68 after Jerome Dyson made two free throws with 10.4 seconds left in overtime. UConn hadn't lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament since 1979 and never during Jim Calhoun's 22 seasons. MIDWEST REGION - SIENA 83, VANDERBILT 62 Kenny Hasbrouck scored 30 points and Tay Fisher added 19 on 6-for-6 shooting from three-point range. The Saints never trailed, becoming the first Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference team to reach the second round since Manhattan in 2004. Until now, Siena's program was best known for a first-round upset of Stanford in 1989 - a 14 seed over a 3. A.J. Ogilvy scored 18 points for Vanderbilt (26-8). MIDWEST REGION - VILLANOVA 75, CLEMSON 69 Villanova, which has more wins as a lower-seeded team in the tournament than any program since 1979, trailed by 18 with five minutes remaining in the first half and didn't take its first lead until Reynolds banked in a three-pointer to put the Wildcats ahead 50-49 with just under 12 minutes to go. Reynolds finished with 21 points and freshman Corey Fisher added 17 for Villanova, which made nine of 10 free throws in the final 2:25 to stay in front. K.C. Rivers led Clemson (24-10) with 15 points, but the Tigers were only 9-for-33 shooting three-pointers, with Terrence Oglesby missing seven of eight attempts. In the second round last night, West Virginia, the No. 7 seed in the West Regional, upset No. 2 Duke 73-67. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Getting online, already A gov't official is planning the first Web site 'to connect all Jews around the world'. Naim to meet you French-Israeli folk singer Yael Naim isn't worried about becoming too commercial.

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