Saturday, March 26, 2016 
Issue # 10.4.1 "Ones Go Down"
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CERRITOS, CA (smt)- #2W-Oklahoma built a big halftime lead and held serve the second half behind Buddy Hield's 37 points to beat our pool's weakest #1 seed, Oregon, 80-68.  #2S-Villanova used a 10-0 run midway in the second half and then hit their free throws to defeat our pool's dominant #1 seed, #1S-Kansas, 64-59.  The Wildcats held the Jayhawks to just 25 1st half points.  'Nova was allowing Kansas to get an easy two to pull within one but that confused the Jayhawks who hesitated, tried to pull back for a three and then fumbled the ball over to the Wildcats.

In the pool, The Resistance (116 pts) still holds onto a 2-point lead but now has lost both finalists and can't win the pool and is likely to drop out of money altogether.  Eight went 2-0 including Bwakewey 1 (2nd-Tied, 114), Larzby (7th-T, 110), Buckeye23 (7th-T, 107), and JJ (1th-T, 104) who all moved up in the standings and are 4 of 10 who have a chance to win the pool.  73 went 0-2 including Billy Hoyle's Socks who "clinches" last with 66 points.  Bwakewey 1 has a 34.4% chance to win the pool with Buckeye23 and Buccos 1 (2nd-T, 114) (12.5%) both better than a 1-in-10 chance to win the pool.  Those three and The Resistance have a better than 1-in-2 chance to win money.  For the Bonus, Ito will win the $40 Bonus if Oklahoma or Oregon win the championship since she is eliminated from money.  If those teams don't win the title, then an ACC team will and Bob's Ball Hogs (11th-T, 105) will win the Bonus if he doesn't finish in the money - if he does, Bonus2 takes effect (total points in final) and all eliminated entries are back in play.

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   Tids & Bits - 63 picked Oklahoma and 21 picked Villanova... with Sunday's games moving to TBS, a later start than usual (3 pm PDT) today... 3 still have their Final Four intact (JJ, Buckeye23, and Mikes Bracket (33rd-T, 99)) while 24 will go 0-for-the-Final-Four... The Resistance is 28-2 on the first day of each round and 16-12 on the second day...   

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Watch my fall, so slowly... sigh...
Scott