The breakaway perfect bracket run is over. After picking the first 13 games correctly, the former undefeated duo, Ren and Stimpy (yes, those are two individual entries) finally got one wrong and fell back to the pack with a 15 and 1 record. That pack consists of twelve other entries that also erred only once. Of course, there were no real upsets of note in the tournament, if we neglect the rather predictable Middle Tennessee State win over Minnesota and the only mildly surprising loss by Maryland to Xavier. 37 more entries are tied, having picked all but two games correctly. Hopefully there will be a few more upsets tomorrow to shake things up a bit.
The loss by Maryland has dealt a severe blow to two of our entries who had them going to the Final Four. Oops! As a result, both Monk Madness and former semi-finalist Rather Be Knitting have vaulted into the lead for the Brandy Award. Both of those entries also have Louisville reaching the Final Four too, so obviously the Cardinals are doomed.
Intentionally terrible Dave Ditlevsen wasn’t even able to do quite that bad, although his two entries have the worst “Current” totals. Despite his intentions to pick as many games wrong as possible, he still got games “wrong” in nine and seven cases – wrong meaning right, that is. Or is right wrong? Never mind – it’s late and your admin staff’s brains are mush after watching 16 games, 47 Geico ads, 38 Capital One ads, and 29 ads for one type of lawnmower or another. We need a bit of rest in order to prepare for an entire day of Bill Raftery.
