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Scott's Newsletter (3/14/98)

3/14/98, Issue # 4.2.1 "North Carolina showdown ends in OT"
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E-mail: [email protected] (Scott M Tamashiro)
[email protected] (David Feng)
Website: http://www.jps.net/dfeng/ncaa

* Report
* Records Broken
* Leaders

FOURTH HWCI OFFICIAL BETTING POOL- NCAA TOURNAMENT `98
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I went to the US soccer game in San Diego and went to eat lunch at
Qualcomm Stadium. The TV was on so I decided to see how #1E North Carolina,
the team I picked to go all the way, was doing. Up by six points, I see...
pretty close. Wait.. what? Overtime??? My heart sunk and was glad I
didn't have to see #8 UNC-Charlotte tie it up to send it to overtime.
Luckily, UNC-C played like OK did in overtime against Indiana... basically
watched it and got beat badly in OT. But, we still got to see an upset
(although probably not unexpected) in the hellish afternoon sessions with
#2W Cincy falling in the last second to #10W West Virginia, who had
earlier upset #7W Temple. The battle of the double-digit seeds saw
#11 Washington upend #14 Richmond. #3W Utah, #2E UConn (I am probably
only saying UConn cause I'm too lazy to look up the spelling of that
state...), and #4W Maryland struggled before pulling away to wins in
the final minutes. #4E Michigan St. put away #5E Princeton, who suffered
only their second loss of the season, to get into the Sweet 16. Top
West seed Arizona's rout improved the Pac-10's record to 6-0 in the
tournament, with Stanford and UCLA playing tomorrow.

Who's heading closer to a money prize? MONEY, of course. He picked
7 of 8 games correctly to move into first place (67 points), thanks
to a gutsy pick of having Washington in the Sweet 16. His only loss was
Cincy's, which everyone missed except ANNA COME LATELY (2nd, 66 pts),
who really did pick West Virginia. However, in 1995, LOSER WHO DIDN'T
PICK UCLA went from 9th to 1st after picking 14 of 16 2nd Round games
correctly, and ended up in last after the Championship Game. Appropriately
enough, the two players tied for last (50 pts) are named CALAMITY
and (PREKI THE) BOMB. But the player who could be in worse shape is
BAERSARKE (16th, 58 pts) who trails only by 9 points (5 from 4th place)
but is the only person to have not one, but both of his Championship Final
teams out of the tourney (Mississippi and Arkansas). We'll see after
tomorrow's games if any of these three still has a chance at one of the
prize positions.

NEW HWCI NCAA RECORDS
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Worst record in Round 1, Fri.: 8-8 (16 pts) PREKI THE BOMB, SLAVE TO BIG SIX (prev: 9-7 (18) 3 tied '97)
Worst record in Round 1: 19-17 (38) PREKI THE BOMB, SLAVE TO BIG SIX, CALAMITY (prev: 20-16 (40) REAL MOBELFAKTA '96, KARL CHILDERS '97)

48 points is the lowest total of any leader after Round 1 (previous three years had leaders with 52 points)... this year was the first year that at least one person picked each of the 32 first-round games correctly- and that continues into tomorrow's games, as all 8 games were picked by at least one person correctly today (which is even more amazing considering all the upsets).

LEADERS (Points Possible)
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Day 1 of Round 2 (24): 7-1 (21), MONEY

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160 seems popular for the tiebreaker (total points in Final)...
Scott HW