2012 HWCI NCAA Pool Update|
The 18th HWCI NCAA Tournament Pool |
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2012 HWCI NCAA Pool Update |
Saturday, March 17, 2012 Issue # 5.3.1 "Chalk" [ Home | Blog | Facebook | Updates ]
CERRITOS, CA (smt)- A day after 8 underdogs won, all eight top seeds advanced to the Sweet 16. The two #1 seeds, S-Syracuse and S-Kentucky pulled off easy victories while #2E-Ohio St, #4W-Louisville, and #4E-Wisconsin held (in the case of Wisconsin, two players literally held a Vandy player for the final rebound) off late rallies. #2W-Marquette, and #3S-Baylor (led by Brady Heslip's 9 three-pointers) had late runs to pull away at the end while #4S-Indiana rallied to victory. #6W-Murray St ended its season 31-2 while Kentucky picked up win #34 and Syracuse win #33. This tournament has seen its share of potential buzzer beaters but none have gone in and thus, no overtime games yet. There have only been 3 games decided by 1 or 2 points.
Suznana (2nd-Tied, 71 pts) briefly took over first from her husband with Indiana's win, but at the end of day, Larzby was back in first with 73 points. He has led or been tied for the lead all three days and the last person to do that was Buckeye Mike in 2009 and he finished 5th. Eight entries were a perfect 8-0 which is not a record -- we had 21(of 27 all-time) go 8-0 in 2009. On the flip side, Dan the Man 2 only got two correct and sits in last place with 44 pts (with only 7 of his Sweet 16 picks still alive). Five of the perfect entries moved from a tie for 53rd to a tie for 13th (66). Bigtenfan (5th-T, 69) is the only one with 14 of 16 Sweet 16 teams alive while Zook Memorial Picks (112th-T, 52) lost four Sweet 16 picks. Just 58 picked Indiana and 66 picked Wisconsin.
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Tids 'n' Bits- 53 still have their Final Four intact... one person picked Iowa St (Dan the Man 2) and one picked Colorado (Unicorns (122nd-T, 50)) but it was not to be... if Florida St wins tomorrow, the East will have sent its top 4 seeds into the Sweet 16... the Big 10 and Big East each won 3 games today... Bob Gnarly (86th-T, 56) only has one Final Four team left (Marquette)... Sisyphus86 (122nd-T) had an ambitious Final Four, but Vandy and Murray St lost... no team has scored 100+ points yet and only 7 have topped 80+... the 2nd round average of 21.0 wins (of 32 possible) was the second lowest ever (20.6 in '01)... we had a record 86.5% of entries are return entries (115 of 133), so thanks for your loyalty!...
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The refs have been a big part of the tourney,
unfortunately...