3 More Tickets Punched Today, Nothing Shocking

I want to get this in front of everyone first.  In the Big West it was announced late last night that Hawaii's post season ban has been REVERSED.  Hawaii is now in the Big West Tournament and eligible for Post Season play.  

Hawaii is a (5) seed and if anyone would like to change their pick to Hawaii please let me know by the end of the day on Monday, March 6. No other changes are allowed.


Additionally, in the SWAC, Alcorn State is still ineligible to represent the SWAC in the real tournament, but they are eligible to play in the SWAC conference tournament.

Alcorn State is a (2) seed and if anyone would like to change their pick to Alcorn State please let me know by the end of the day on Monday, March 6.  No other changes are allowed within the conference.

Link to the Standings

The Big South, Missouri Valley, and Atlantic Sun Conferences all sent a team to the Big Dance today, it was all chalk running away with the games.  Although Wichita was a 2 seed, Vegas still had them as a 7 point favorite.

• In the Big South (1) Winthrop beat Campbell by 17
• Missouri Valley (2) Wichita State beat Illinois State by 20
• Atlantic Sun (1) FGCU beat North Florida by 16

This right here is why Campbell was blown out by Winthrop today:

We did have some notable upsets and pool impacting losses throughout today since we had so many teams in play.

• Continuing the craziness in the Horizon League (6) UIC knocked off (3) Green Bay

• In the MAAC (1) Monmouth lost to Siena, knocking out 70% of the picks in our pool

• Also in the MAAC (2) St Peter's lost to Iona

Everyone has at least 1 point so early on, we usually have a few stragglers that struggle to get a point early on, so everyone is still very much alive to win it all.

Championship Games Tomorrow

• Colonial (2) Charleston vs. (1) UNC-Wilmington
• 24 out of 27 are still in this conference and in the championship game, with 63% of the picks on UNC-Wilmington

• MAAC (4) Siena vs. (3) Iona
• This will be our 1st guaranteed bonus point game as we have a few people with Siena and a few people with Iona, so everyone else is kinda screwed no matter the outcome
• This is a conference championship that can really separate some people so it's one to watch for sure

• Southern (3) ETSU vs. (1) UNC-Greensboro
• This was an interesting conference as we were all pretty spread out between the 1-4 seeds
• 30% of us had (4) Chattanooga, that was our pools favorite, but they were eliminated
• Bonus points are available if ETSU wins, but either way points are going to be handed out for this conference

The Blog may be shorter/condensed over the next few days, but I will continue to post updated standing on at least a daily basis.  All conferences except the Big 10 now have finalized seeding, so max points may have changed for some people.