With the completion of the UVA vs UMBC game Warren Buffett breathes easy, earlier than any prior year. With a stunning 16 over 1 upset the Golden Retrievers (?!?) of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County has joined the following historical sports accomplishments of this “year”:
The Cleveland Browns won a football game- The Eagles won a Super Bowl
- North and South Korea together fielded an Olympic women’s hockey team
- The US won an Olympic gold in curling
The Russians fielded a clean Olympic team
Yep – a 16 seed beating a 1 seed is so rare that it has actually NEVER happened before. And with it the team with the 2nd most entries picking it to win it all in our pool has taken the never before seen 1st seed exits in the first round, likely deep sixing at least 14 entries.
With today’s action, and the first round games, complete, the top entry ranked by current points is “Soupy”, correctly picking 25 of the 32 outcomes in the round. But Soupy is nowhere to be seen in the upper echelon of the possible score rankings having picked UVA to make it to the Final Four. At the top of the Possible Score rankings is “quackquack2018” with an umblemished slate of Final 8 teams – a current status shared with #2 in the possible score rankings “Jumbo”.
At the other end of things JM and Eyebrian2 (both now 16/32) have out plummeted Gerald 2 who is now batting 1 game over .500.
