First Championship Saturday: Creeps, Upsets, and Definitions!

We now have 3 teams going dancing!!!

UNC Asheville, Murray State, and Belmont have punched tickets today

The standings are really starting to separate as we are now almost a week into the championship games, and we clearly see who are the ones to beat are so far.

Conference	Standings	Losses	Accuracy
Conference Champion	Total Points	Total	100% Max
Jenn	3	1	75.0%
Kevin	3	1	75.0%
Rabitoy	3	1	75.0%
Brad	3	2	60.0%
Dan Shuftan	3	2	60.0%
Rick	3	2	60.0%
Ryan	3	2	60.0%
Tim	3	2	60.0%
Tina	3	2	60.0%

Current Standings


Big South

VMI brought everything they could, including the sailors, but UNC Asheville just blew them out in the second half.  This game made me really excited about going to Vegas in 11 days.

Congratulations to UNC Asheville for being the first of 68 teams to punch a ticket to the big dance!

To answer a very important VMI related question, "Keydets" and Cadets are the same thing. The VMI version pays homage to the school's southern heritage by spelling the word the way it is pronounced by a person with a thick southern drawl.

I was creeped out during the post game conference and I assume if you saw it you would be too, well, I will let you look at the picture below and find the creep.

OVC

The final result is what 15 out of 17 of us expected, Murray State was the second team to joining the Big Dance!

This was a really close game and Tennessee State had a chance to tie or win the game with the final shot.  No one called Tennessee State as the champion in our pool and it would have really impacted the NCAA tournament by potentially knocking out a bubble team.


Missouri Valley

Although this conference was only in the semi-finals, we saw a major upset that knocked out the majority of us.  9-9 Illinois State knocked off nationally ranked Wichita State by 1 point!  This is a huge upset and it opens the door for a team to sneak into the NCAA tournament and knock out a bubble team.  Wichita State had the ball with 1.1 seconds to go and could have won with a 2 point jumper, but it came up just short.


Atlantic Sun

Florida Gulf Coast lead by 13 as halftime approached, but Belmont came back strong in the second half and whooped FGCU to claim the 3rd spot in the NCAA tournament


Creep Theme Continued  during the Butler/Valpo Game...

Below is the rest of the action you should be aware of from 13 hours of games today:

• Butler, Cleveland State and Milwaukee were blown out of the Horizon League and that leaves a Valpo/Detroit Championship game
• Unless I point this out, you may not realize that Oral Roberts survived IPFW and we almost had a huge upset in the Summit League
• George Mason literally has a pimp as band leader
• Although close, St. Mary's had the game in control in the second half and advanced to the WCC finals
• This blog is updated with 1 major game left, Gonzaga/BYU, and this game has major impacts on our pool

If you have not noticed, St. Mary's has a teen wolf on the team, how is that even fair?

With multiple team named "Gael" I wanted to ensure everyone knew what a Gael is.

Current definitions

• Gaels – the ethno-linguistic group.
• Gaelic – of or relating to the Gaels.
• Goidels – an alternative term sometimes used to describe the Gaels in antiquarian contexts
• Goidelic – of or relating to the Gaels, particularly their language, in antiquarian contexts