Unless the upset bug strikes the opening day of Open divisions at AAUs can move along without much occurring that’s going to impact the end result. There weren’t any dramatic surprises on Day 1 of 15 Open, thus everything played out relatively according to plan Friday in Orlando.

But not entirely to plan, at least not our predicted plan. With the action just starting to get going and building steam toward the final two days, we begin by looking at Day 1 of 15 Open through the lens of our preview and prediction article.

Remember, when we released that the actual pools were not up. We guessed on those based on our national rankings. Therefore, our fabricated pools had these teams as the top eight seeds: