The latter half of the Day 3 games did not feature quite as many shakeups as the early games, but there was indeed a shakeup in the pool standings. Our historical leader, Big Lumber1 suffered the loss of another Elite Eight team as Maryland was sent packing. This dropped Big Lumber1 down to 13th in current points, but still in play at number 8 in Possible Points. Assuming control at this point is Junior Man, one of only five entries to hit on six of the day’s eight picks. Hot on the heels of Junior GMan is ……….Junior Gman2 – apparently G-men like to stash all of their G eggs in one G basket.
In a show of “15 minutes of fame” MF1 owns sole possession of first place in Current Points. But MF1 also has Duke winning it all, meaning that we see an asterisk in MF1’s near future and soon disappearing from the top of the order – and that’s not coming from Miss Cleo.
As we start to ponder the other end of the standings, once again Brandy’s historically near unattainably minimal points total can now be considered to be safe as the worst score at present is 38 points. That score was posted by Badger04, who had quite a day, guessing incorrectly on six of today’s eight games. Remarkably, though, Badger04 still has six Elite Eight teams alive and possibly advancing. The more impressive performance and the current leading candidate for the Brandy Award with four Final Four teams having already packed their bags is ……….Badger03!!! This sudden dominance of Taxidea Taxus, the official scientific classification of the furry little Mustelidae, implies that there are at least two other Badger picks, and on the plus side, none of them have any asterisks next to their names. Having said that, we’ll just let you come to your own conclusions when it comes to the ability of a Badger to pick March Madness winners.
