Only 13 Games Today, Most Were Meaningful to Our Pool

Today is the least amount of games we'll see played this week as the majority of the conferences now gear up for the 1st round of the tournament starting Tuesday/Wednesday.

However, we still had 3 more championship games played tonight and now have a total of 7 tickets punched to the NCAA tournament.

I'll keep the link to the standings and some reminders towards the beginning today for those with short attention spans.

We still have 4 people without a win and Galpin has charged into 1st place with a dominant night tonight!  Iannuzzi and "Conference Tournament Pool Playing Rob Lowe" are right behind him.

Current Standings

A Couple Reminders:

• Please keep checking your scores and make sure I have accurately calculated your totals, it's better to let me know now and get it fixed before catching it later and having to recalculate everything
• If you have not yet paid, you should do that within the next few days, ideally I would like to have all the money collected by Selection Sunday (3/15) so I can pay the winners right away

Let's rundown the action that occurred today!

We'll cover the 3 new champions first.

In the Colonial, Northeastern dismantled the 1 seed William and Mary.  Northeastern was a 3 seed, so that means bonus points for 6 players in the pool.

Th Southern Conference championship game between 10 seed Furman and 1 seed Wofford was actually an AWESOME game.  It came down to the last few seconds, but Wofford ended up pulling out the victory, snatching a guaranteed $40 from Doug.

I do have to say, I understand nothing about Furman's background.  They are the "Paladins" and after reading about what the hell a Paladin is, I still don't understand it.

Finally, in the MAAC, we saw another freaking upset bonus pick win the championship game, so this is starting to get crazy.  Not sure what Tim is going to do with Iona losing, he loves that team, I assume he doesn't show up to work tomorrow.

The night started off in the MEAC, and normally I would not provide a summary including opening round MEAC action that includes Delaware State taking on Savannah State, but this match up was important to our pool.  It's important because Iannuzzi has Delaware State, and being in first place, the other 24 of us are actively rooting against him.  Delaware State won.

MAC games tipped off tonight and, well, nobody cares about the MAC so I am moving on.  Look at the spreadsheet if you want to see those updates so I don't have to write up games that have players that look like this guy...

North Dakota State beat Oral Roberts in a very, very, close game that I watched on ESPN 3, but the Oral Roberts band played it's heart out!  I'm still not sure why all the band members look over 40 years old.

The last conference I'll cover tonight is the West Coast Conference, as both games were on ESPN and it's the Semifinals.  Lot's of cool shots showing the Vegas strip, but in the end Gonzaga is moving on to play the winner of BYU/Portland.

Here is a rundown of the current teams that have punched tickets to the tournament, this represents a little over 20% of the total teams, so we still have a long way to go.

We have 4 more conference champion games tomorrow, they are coming at us pretty fast at this point.

The West Coast Conference championship game is the 4th championship tomorrow night, but I am not staying up until 1:00 am to find out if BYU or Portland will be playing Gonzaga.  It's not that important at this point.