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Sunday, March 10, 2019

Gardner-Webb Going to the NCAA Tournament for the First Time Ever

The Big South championship was won by the (4) Gardner-Webb Bulldogs, and this is the first time they have ever gone to the NCAA Tournament.  It only took us 2 conference championship games this year to get our first bonus point team as Gardner-Webb is a 4 seed.  (1) Radford was never really in this game, Gardner-Webb led wire to wire.  Wattles is the first person in our pool to get a bonus point.





In the Missouri Valley championship game we saw (5) Bradley comeback from trailing by double digits late in the game to beat (6) Northern Iowa.  Nobody in our pool had Bradley so no points at all are awarded in the Missouri Valley conference.  We did have 2 people that picked Northern Iowa, if Northern Iowa would have won it really would have separated the standings and pretty much clinched the pot for lowest winning seed.



The final championship game today was in the Atlantic Sun and (2) Liberty was able to go to (1) Lipscomb and beat them on their home court.  The majority of our pool had Lipscomb, but 6 people were able to get points from Liberty.  No bonus points were awarded.  This game went back and forth all day, but in the end Liberty was able to pull it out.



We are now 1 week into championship week, we have 4 tickets punched, and more than half of our pool has at least 1 win, but no one has more than 2 points.  Everyone is still in this, no one is even close to being eliminated as no one has been able to separate from the pack yet.  Usually by this point we have 1-2 people that separate themselves from the pack, but that is not the case this year.  This really is one of the more unpredictable years in college basketball.

Standings

You can get to the Standings by clicking on Standings, everything is up to date through the end of Sunday night.  All conference tournament seeds are finalized.  We did have some seeding changes across most conferences, the biggest impact was in the Big 10 as Michigan State is no longer worth bonus points, but Michigan is.

  • John is in 1st and also has the best winning % which means he's not losing many teams
  • B.I. is right behind him and has more max points available due to potential bonus wins
  • Jenn is in the Top 3!
  • Wattles is only in the top 4 due to Gardner-Webb, he has the lowest winning % which means he's lost a bunch of future teams already

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