Selection Sunday 2023!

Happy Selection Sunday! We have reached the last day of our conference tournament pool and we have 5 games remaining. 7 people are jockeying for the top 4 spots, which is a bit less than previous years, but we should still have an excising finish to the pool. Although the "Bonus Point" and "Lowest Winning Seed" pot of money is wrapped up, many people are still in the running for the "Power Conference" pot of money, and everyone is alive for the "Closest to the SEC Score" bonus money. This will be our last preview of conference tournament games. 🏀

Ivy League

We begin today at 11:00 AM CST in the Ivy League with (1) Yale vs. (2) Princeton and this is a critical game for Heffron. He is surrounded by Yale picks, so a Princeton win sends him to 1st and a loss sends him to 5th. Yale is a 3.5 favorite, but we know how this works, the spread is not an indicator if a team is going to win or lose. 🐯

SEC

At noon CST we have (1) Alabama vs. (2) Texas A&M in a game with literally no impact to the pool standings. An Alabama win could make the 4th place fight interesting, but nothing worth covering here. However, this is the game where the person that is closest or gets the total points accurate wins $50. The Vegas total is 145 points which is our pools average. We have a bunch of handicappers participating in the pool! 💰

Atlantic 10

In our 3rd all chalk matchup of the day (1) VCU plays (2) Dayton in the Atlantic 10 championship today at noon CST. VCU is favored by 2.5 points and 1st place is looking attainable. 💥

American Athletic 

At 2:15 PM CST, you guessed it, we have another chalk matchup between the best team in the country (1) Houston and (2) Memphis. This game is totally meaningless to our pool as anyone that is remaining, 80% of us, has Houston. Literally nothing else to cover with this game. 😒

Big Ten

Finally, at 2:30 PM CST today, we have our last conference tournament game as "Cinderella" (10) Penn State takes on (1) Purdue in the B1G. This game could have significant meaning to the final standings depending on how the previous games finish. 4 of the top 10 are already eliminated in this conference which could mean a Purdue win allows people to leapfrog into 1st place. I am very excited to watch this game and I hope the ending comes down to a buzzer beater. 🏀

Our last preview of conference tournament games is now complete, let's review how the rest of today is going to work. As each game ends, I will update and post the latest standings, if it warrants a blog entry, I will post one. The current standings are located here and are completely updated, hang on to the link. If the games are not breaking in a way that are exciting, or if I am busy, the next blog entry you'll see is the final standings. I had a blast every night (and afternoon) group watching games with Tim, Whit, DD, Chris, Andrew, and a bunch of others, and now we prepare for Vegas! Thank you for participating in the pool and I'll leave you with the AQ list. 😀