First Championship Weekend Recap

We had 4 championship games this weekend, along with some major upsets of 1 and 2 seeds.  This weekend brought the biggest change in the standings as we finally started to have people accumulating wins (and losses).

This weekend was filled with bad teams making deep runs into conference tournaments, 1 seeds upset early in conference tournaments, and game after game of amazing buzzer beating shots (Belmont, Valparaiso, Albany, Fairfield, Wright State, St. Mary's, Albany, and Davidson).

The spreadsheet is now completely updated with all seeding for each conferences and the Max Bonus points column is accurate.

• Christina and Jenn have come out of the gate strong and dominating the pool, with over a 30% accuracy rate!
• Amanda is in 3rd and is best positioned to take the lead over the next few days with her upset picks (St. Mary's, Albany, and James Madison)
• Excluding Rabitoy and Ron, long term, Tim is best positioned to win the pool as he has Maximum Points remaining



Having said all that, we still have a such a long way to go, and the major conference picks for next Sunday are all so different, this looks as though it will come down to the last day.

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")

The following teams have punched a ticket to the 2013 NCAA Tournament



• Atlantic Sun: 
• Florida Gulf Coast University (Upset 1 seed Mercer for their first appearance ever!)
• 50% of our pool chose Florida Gulf Coast, but Mercer was predicted to have a 54.5% chance to win
• Ivy: 
• Harvard (Won Ivy league regular season for the second year in a row)
• No impact to our pool
• Ohio Valley: 
• Belmont (Moved from the Atlantic Sun to the OVC and won the conference in year 1!)
• 55.5% of our pool chose Belmont, which aligned with the bracketology prediction of 70.1%
• Big South: 
• Liberty Flames (They are the second worst team to make the NCAA tournament and they have a 20 loss season)
• Liberty had a .01% chance to win this tournament, Charleston Southern was the highest with a 28% chance to win, and in our pool 55.5% chose Gardner-Webb
• Nobody in the pool picked the correct Big South Champion!
• Missouri Valley: 
• Creighton (Great game against Wichita!)
• 44.4% of the pool picked Creighton and they were predicted to have a 49.7% meaning the MVC went as everyone predicted

Monday will bring us FIVE conference championship games!