Patriot League Ticket Punched & No Championship Games for 2 Days!

I wanted to get the blog out earlier, but I got stuck behind this guy in a shiny coat at Chipotle who held up the whole line!  Wattles, I mean, the guy in the shiny coat had to start his order over at least 2 times (#foodwaster).  I would have figured Naomi had those instructions Steve-proof on your phone.

Tonight we only had 1 championship game played and that was in the Patriot League between 6 seed American University and 4 seed Lafayette.

This was one of the coolest championship games I watched so far, maybe because I didn't have a team to root for, but mostly because it was a close game and a long overdue win for Lafayette.

I saw the following costumes in the stands (Oscar the Grouch, Nemo, Dori, a piece of bacon, beach guy, the yellow M&M, a ninja head, and I am sure I missed some).

And congrats to Jack as he now leads the side pot for "Lowest Winning Seed" with that Lafayette win, which puts him all alone to date for the $40 side pot!

Current Standings

The next blog entry will likely be Saturday morning since we won't have any championship games played on Thursday or Friday, but the standings will stay updated.  

30+ games/day will be played over the next few days so I will dedicate my time to keeping the standings updated instead of updating a blog that 5 people read.

We now have 12 tickets punched!

Saturday and Sunday we'll have a flurry of 19 championship games played, so these standings have the potential to be turned upside down.

For those that are like Tim and getting depressed about losing all your picks, remember all the bonus opportunities that are still available!

1. Most Bonus Points:  The person with the most total bonus points will win $100

2. Most Power Conference Points:  The person with the most Power Conference points will win $80 (The Power Conferences are highlighted in red)

3. Lowest Winning Seed:  The person who has the lowest winning seed conference champion wins $40 (Go 6 seeds!)

4. Closest Big 10 Score:  The person with the closest Big 10 championship game score wins $20 (This is the last conference championship game, so even if you're in last place you have the opportunity to recoup $20!)

I can't figure out a clever way to work this in, so I'll just end it on this...