42 Games in 15 Hours Today

Over the next 3 days I will be getting back to making this update longer and more informational, just as it was a week ago.  We are also just under 48 hours until the Selection Show on Sunday!

For some reason, Tim and I decided that championship week would be the perfect week to be busy at work with project roll outs, conducting workshops, taking on major accounts, and flying in colleagues for meetings!  Next year we will plan better.

If Sam Houston State (Bearkats with a "k") loses tonight, it will be a long weekend for Tina, and if UCLA beats up on Arizona then Joel will be on suicide watch.

Ron is officially the 1st one to 20 losses, but still not in last place, that honor goes to Rabitoy.  I am shocked Jack and BI are at the bottom, but they still have over 20 Max Points as a potential so they are not yet out.  Now Chris, I did expect to be somewhere towards the bottom, he still thinks Gerry McNamara plays for Syracuse

B1G

• ILL was unable to continue its tournament run when they ran into Indiana today and lost by double digits, and by double digits I mean 20 points
• This group has many ILL fans which is the only reason I even cover this topic (At least you got your Shamrock-shaped donut Jenn)

• In a fairly significant upset in terms of our pool, Wisconsin knocked out Michigan, this really impacted people towards the top of the standings
• Courtesy of Jenn, we have a picture of what it feels like to be a sad Michigan fan today
• I also need to add that Jenn is more of a fan than any of us...she is actually GOING to these games (Although bailing on March Madness in Vegas may make me revoke this statement)

 

ACC

• Boston College gave Miami a great game today, but in the last minute Miami pulled away and won by 10;  This keeps Young, Amanda, Andrew, and Rachel alive
• Duke goes down to the Maryland Turtles!!  I hate Duke so much, I am glad they lost, even though I picked them

SEC

• Florida easily cruised by LSU this afternoon, the only person really rooting against Florida at this point is Jenn
• Alabama advanced to the next round, Rachel is the lone crimson fan within the pool

Big East

• Syracuse and Georgetown had an awesome overtime game, with Syracuse coming in on top with a win
• Chris is probably wetting his pants with excitement right now



All Other Conferences with Pool Impacts

• In the A10 St. Louis advanced to the Semi-finals, VCU/STL is the match up that impacts our pool
• Butler keeps moving along in the A10 tournament, and we have some Butler upset picks in our pool
• In a CRAZY upset in a garbage conference, The Houston Baptist Church beat N.J.I.T with a buzzer beater to move on to the Great West Championship
• I am SO glad this conference is gone after this year
• Only a few people are left alive in this conference with The Texas Panhandle of America College
• Akron, VCU, Kansas, and Memphis have all advanced to the championship game
• They made a run at the end of the year, made it to the Bubble, and now Kentucky's bubble has been burst by Vandy, major impacts to the mid section of the pool

Today, as yesterday, brought us 0 opportunities to earn points due to no conference finals today, but we again saw many losses across the board that had major impacts to the standings.  I'll keep saying it, the link below is updated several times each day, so just because a new Blog entry isn't posted doesn't mean the link won't be updated.

Click Here for Master Picks and Standings (When you access the spreadsheet, if it gives you the option to "Edit Copy" or "Cancel" you will want to choose "Cancel")

 

 

14 Conference Championships on Saturday, 3/16!