Now that’s what I call March Madness.
After the first 23 games of the first round produced just 3 “upsets” — none of them a “David vs. Goliath” situation with mid-major beating a major — Norfolk State opened the floodgates, and we saw TWO #15 seeds beat #2s in one evening (after just 4 such upsets in the previous 27 years), including the “bad guys” going down, plus a #13 over a #4, a #12 over a #5, a #11 over a #6, a #10 over a #7, and a #9 over a #8 (that many people thought was an unusually dangerous #8). The result?
After all the chaos, Scott Paine emerged as the leader of the LRT pool, with Deanah Kim & Elizabeth Styles tied for second 1 point behind, and Chris Palmer, Jeremy Lee, Robert Carlos, Yvette Webster, McClane Jugler, Pat Caplin and Karen Torgerson all within less than 10 points. Here are the standings.
Meanwhile, LAST CALL FOR THE WOMEN’S POOL!!! Deadline at 11am Eastern today.
If I had to be horrendously wrong in the first round, those are the two I wanted most.
I also don’t think Missouri fans truly understood how much most of the Big 12 hates them until yesterday.
I wanted Missouri to carry that label of “Last 2 seed to lose to a 15” for a while longer, but I guess it’s OK if it’s Duke. Duke will recover. Missouri might not.