Holy cow! So many entries did so well during the round of 32. With the many upsets and surprises, credit goes to Newman2 for being the “best guesser” with 27 total games having been picked correctly. In second place it’s a five-way tie between various entries that picked 26 contests correctly. It’s a runaway, right? Mmmmmm, not exactly. There’s one little problem among these top six – every one of them has either Kentucky or Iowa in the Final Four. You are hereby instructed to imagine the Price Is Right sad trombone fail sound effect at this point.
Sort the standings by Possible Score and it’s a totally different story. RaleighGoodBracket leads the way with a top potential score of 227 with all Elite Eight picks still alive, while the current top six are positioned deep in the standings. Still a long, long way to go though, and in truth the standings at this point mean little, except for us to have some fun with. Starting tomorrow the point values for proper picks go up and then we’ll begin to see some separation.
So you’re looking at your bracket and you believe all is lost because one of your Final Four picks is no longer alive. Well, do not despair, because you have plenty of company – 55 total entries, as a matter of fact share that same conundrum. And tournament history shows that rarely do the top finishers end up with more than two correct Final Four picks. If you’ve already suffered a Final Four loss, hey, you’re ust getting that errant pick out of the way……early. Yeah, that’s it.
Now if you have two or more Final Four picks gone already, well, that might be a little more of a challenge, but until those asterisks appear, you’re still in the running. Unless your entry is named UCon All The Way, or perhaps more impressively, malz11. The latter has the distinction of having seen three Final Four picks bowing out already and closing the gap with UCon All The Way quickly for Brandy Award notoriety.