We have quickly moved into the chaos of conference tournament season with a pool loss already on the sheet, all Atlantic Sun teams in action today and 3 more conference tournaments tipping off. It's not even March yet. 🍀
We'll start out by diving into the Atlantic Sun quarterfinals where we can all escape without a pool loss today or we may end up going headfirst into complete madness. This is an interesting conference because only 5 people picked the one seed, Kennesaw State, while 23 people, or 66% of the entries, went with the two seed, Liberty. Additionally, we have a handful of people on (3) Eastern Kentucky and (5) Lipsomb, while nobody is on the four seed, Stetson. We have some very savvy college basketball people in this pool because TeamRankings gives Liberty a 65% chance to win this conference championship, which is almost exactly aligned with our pool picks. Below are tonight's Atlantic Sun games.
Moving to the Horizon League opening round, while the majority of our picks don't play until the quarterfinals, we do have some pool teams in action. We have a pick on (7) Wright State and another pick on (8) Detroit Mercy. While Wright State is favored by 21 freaking points, Detroit Mercy is only a 5.5 point favorite. Both teams are likely to advance, but we have seen bigger upsets in conference tournaments so we can't rule anything out. Here are all 3 games we have available on ESPN+ tonight.
The Patriot League opening round is much less exciting as we will not have any pool teams in action tonight. (7) American plays (10) Bucknell while (8) Loyola Maryland takes on (9) Holy Cross. The biggest reach made in our pool is not in action tonight, and that is three seed Lehigh. This league has a visually gross bracket to look at, I apologize in advance and blame Dan Sohler for this one. This is his league.
Our final conference to cover is the Sun Belt, which unfortunately is another opening round that does not impact our pool. Even though these games have no pool impact I am still excited to watch them (or check scores on my phone while I'm destroying people at Pickleball tonight) as conference tournament games are always incredibly intense. A loss ends seasons and college careers. This bracket only looks slightly better thank the last one, but would still like to see more effort put into it.
Depending on how these games play out I may not post a blog tonight, but make sure you're subscribed just in case I decide to post something. Enjoy watching and betting on these games and then get ready for Wednesday...MARCH 1!
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