With some great opportunities up and down the pool. At the top of the pool “Big Lumber1” is sitting pretty smug, having missed only 5 games (and only Iowa State making BL1’s final 8) in round 1. However, BL1 DOES have Tennessee winning it all – one of two such entries in our pool. Tied for 2nd are two entries, one of whose entry name will not be repeated here out of respect to one of our pool masters who’s on temporary hiatus from his post.
In the “sorted by possible score” view of the status report (which pool stalwarts will recall a certain amount of verbiage having been spent over the years by pool staff extolling this view of the status early in the pool), we see the pool so ranked being lead by MF1 (Duke as their pick for winner). Good luck MF1!! In 2nd place in this view is the aforementioned BL1, and in 3rd is Junior GMan (Ala).
Where things get really exciting in the early rounds is the competition for the Brandy award. Here we see a bunch of entries with their choice for pool winner already having been eliminated. Lots of red at that end of the pool. The Brandy Award looks to be highly contested this year.
Enjoy Round 2. And those of you that have suffered disappointment already, please stay the course and remember that there are plenty of Cal fans out there who have great experience in supporting disappointing sports teams that can help you through these times.