Warning! Long List of Losses by Baylor, Nevada, UNC, Southern, Miami, Arkansas, Tennessee, UConn, Sam Houston, UC Irvine & NC Central

Welcome back to the blog, the last 36 hours of basketball have been wild, and we still have a full evening of great games ahead of us. Everyone in our pool has been taking losses and now we only have 4 people with a 50% or greater win rate, down from our Wednesday night high of 18 people. The current standings are located here for those that have not been keeping up. As I foreshadowed in the last blog entry, Thursday and Friday is always a bloodbath. 💥

A few significant losses that impacted our pool, starting with Thursday's action, include popular Big 12 bonus pick (4) Baylor losing to (5) Iowa State, another popular pick, (4) Nevada lost to (5) San Jose State in the Mountain West quarterfinals and in the ACC (2) Virginia knocks (7) North Carolina out of the conference tournament and likely the NCAA tournament. Some big names went down Thursday. Additionally, popular SWAC pick (4) Southern was blown out by (5) Alabama A&M.  🏀

    

Friday afternoons key pool losses include (1) Miami losing to (4) Duke in the ACC, popular SEC bonus pool picks (10) Arkansas going down in flames to (2) Texas A&M and (5) Tennessee losing to (4) Missouri, and yet another popular bonus pick (4) UConn losing in a close one to (1) Marquette in the Big East. In the WAC we saw (1) Sam Houston State lose to (4) Grand Canyon, which is a big bonus pick in the pool, and then (1) UC Irvine went down to (4) CS Fullerton in the Big West. The one seeds are falling! Finally, (2) North Carolina Central lost to (3) Norfolk State in the MEAC. 🏀

                   

                    

On Saturday we will have 13, unlucky or lucky, conference tournament championship games, I'll do my best to preview most of them Saturday morning and then look for 2-3 Saturday blog entries with standings updates. We'll end this entry with a review of the current standings, don't get discouraged if you're not towards the top. Heffron is still alone in 1st place, but his accuracy has dropped to 50% and max points are 25, he is easily catchable. Napervillians are in the best spot on the board with 10 points, the best accuracy at 58.8% and 27 max points. Finally, Tim and Team TNT are neck and neck with 10 points and 27 max points, however Tim's accuracy is better. Also, everyone with 9 points is still in it, especially DD with 29 max points. We're in the home stretch!