Thursday, March 23, 2017
King Kobra maintains 4 point lead with six tied for 2nd
CERRITOS APT (smt)- All four winning teams ended their games scoring the last few points in the final minutes. #11W-Xavier stunned #2W-Arizona ending the game on a 9-0 run to win 73-71. The Wildcats had a 7-point lead with 2:40 left and didn’t attempt one free throw while missing five shots and committing one turnover. Arizona also had no timeouts and looked lost on their last few possessions. The other Pac 12 team, #3MW-Oregon ended the game scoring the last four points in the last 1:48 to stop the incredible run of #7MW-Michigan, winning 69-68. #1W-Gonzaga closed the game on a 6-0 run in the last 1:31 to hold off #4W-West Virginia, 61-58. For some reason, WVU, with no timeouts, had 38 seconds, barely getting rim on two shots, grabbing both offensive rebounds, and then ran out the clock not getting a shot off as time expired. This was a painful game to watch as WVU went on a slow 15-4 run in over 7 minutes with a ton of fouls called in between (WVU shot 27% and yet were still in the game because the Zags weren’t much better, missing a lot of free throws). #1MW-Kansas also ended their game on a 5-0 in the last 2:11… difference was Kansas was already up by 27, routing #4MW-Purdue 98-66. Purdue did have an 8-point first half lead at one point.
King Kobra maintained the 4-point lead (104) with Dboyz17, 9ers in ’18, Hrosen2, Thai Spice, SlumDawg, and EEChick1400 tied for 2nd at 100 points. 37 went 3-1 while six went 0-4. BTW, who is King Kobra? The Who’s Who has been up for a while on the homepage — see who is who.
19 lost Arizona as their champ and 71 more lost them in their Final Four. Bigtenfan2 (125th-T, 81) lost Purdue and Jackson’s Picks (101st-T, 84) lost WVU as their champ.
There are still 91 entries that can finish in the top 7 and 35 can still win the pool. Russian Trolls (8th-Tied, 99) has the best chance to Continue reading