Mo Cassara Picks the NCAA Tourney: Midwest & West

Somehow, I convinced Boston College assistant coach Mo Cassara (aka @coach_cassara on Twitter) to make his NCAA tournament picks for the first two rounds on SCACCHoops.com. He was kind enough to not only pick the opening round and second round games, but even give some insight on his picks. Despite his busy schedule, Coach Cassara tells me he was able to still see 58 of the 65 teams (10 in person, 48 on game film or on TV) in the NCAA tournament in action.

Here's a little about Cassara from his bio on Boston College's website...

Mo Cassara is in his fourth season on the Boston College coaching staff. Cassara joined the Eagles in the spring of 2006 after serving the previous two years as head coach at Clark (Mass.) University.

Cassara came to Boston College with a resume that included head coaching experience at both the prep school and collegiate levels. Before arriving at BC, he was well known to BC fans as the former head coach at Worcester (Mass.) Academy, where he coached Craig Smith during the 2001-02 season. The Hilltoppers won a school-record 27 games that season.

Maybe, if we're nice he'll even come back next week and take us to the final four!

Enough with the intro, let's get to his picks for the Midwest and West regions.

MIDWEST

1 KU
16 LEH

Winner: Kansas

Notes: KU may win it all!

8 UNLV
9 UNI

Winner: UNI

Notes: Adam Koch – one of best no one knows about

5 MSU
12 NMSU

Winner: MSU

Notes: Experience helps in Big Dance