We’ve seen a 1 seed, two 2 seeds, and two 3 seeds go down. As a result, all but nine entries have seen at least one Final Four pick get eliminated. Four of the top ten in current standings in fact have seen two of their Final Four teams go down. With a 15 seed, a 12 seed, and an 11 seed having made the Sweet Sixteen, just about everyone’s bracket has been thrown into a tizzy. And we love it!
Given all of the (pardon the term) madness, that pesky Newman2 entry refuses to go away and continues to lead in the Current Standings sort. This despite finalist pick Kentucky having bitten the dust in their very first game. Sorted by Possible Points, though, Newman2 tumbles down to a tie for 30th place. DurhamGoodBracket leads in the Possible Points category with six Elite Eight picks still alive and all four Final Four picks.
At the other end we have a couple of new contenders for the Brandy Award, both somehow displacing UCon All The Way, a Herculean effort if there ever was one. That’ll happen when all four of your Final Four picks go down, as was the case for the appropriately named Carson Wentz entry. It probably wasn’t a good idea to go all Big Ten either, given the conference’s dreadful Sunday record, but that’s what the entry named All B1G did, and as a result this unfortunate soul finds himself likewise with only two Elite Eights still alive. Hey, even UCon All The Way got seven of the sixteen round 2 games right.
On the bright side, as badly as the upsets have wrecked things in just about all brackets, those dreaded asterisks have not appeared next to anyone’s entry yet. And that means that even Carson Wentz has a chance of finishing in the money.