What a difference a week makes for the tournament results. First weekend, it was clear the top seeds were ranked correctly by the powers that be with 12 of the top 16 teams advancing. And my though last weekend was, if this trend keeps going, the top seeded teams will again advance keeping a lot of bracket sheets in play. Well, that trend did not continue as we ended up a #1, #2, #3, and a #5 advancing to the championship weekend in Minneapolis.
We have #1 seed Virginia advancing this year. In my bracket, since they lost as a #1 seed to #16 seed UMBC last year, naturally I was scared to pick them to go far. 54 of the 100 brackets correctly selected them.
Then we have #2 Michigan St, in a very exciting game beating the favorite Duke team. Only 16 of you got this one correct. As I look at the one bracket I did on paper, I have Michigan St as my champion, except when I filled it in online, I picked Gonzaga as my champion. Why did I change? I pick Michigan St as my Champion, a lot, and get burned year after year as they always lose to Duke. Izzo was 1-11 versus Coach K. So I went with Gonzaga, and they are out with Mich St advancing.
Only 8 pick sheets correctly picked Texas Tech to beat Gonzaga. Goodbye to my champion team, but thankfully it wasn't after round one like last year.
Lastly is Auburn, the #5 seeded team. Just two of you brave soles correctly picked them. They were not on my radar this year, but they have been fun to watch.
We had three brackets top out at correctly picking three of the four remaining teams. They currently sit as the top three teams in the standings, yet two of them lost their championship team and their fate is not good.
That's all I have for today, the last three games start back up in Minneapolis, Saturday evening and finish up on Monday.
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