2021 NCAA Basketball Conference Tournament Challenge

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Selection Sunday is Here Again After a 2 Year Wait

It's been 2 years since the last Selection Sunday. I won't be putting out the lengthy morning preview I promised, but the standings are updated with the (1) UCSB win from last night. Clickable links below to the blog and current standings: 2021 Conference Tournament Challenge Blog Standings (One Drive)

26 out of 31 Conference Tournaments Now Complete

After a wild day of conference tournament championship games we now officially have 25 tickets punched on Selection Sunday Eve. The Big West is still pending and will make 26 tickets punched once that game wraps up and I update the standings. We have had seeds 1-9, except for a 7, all win a conference tournament. It's been pretty wild over the past week with the change in conference tournament schedules, off conference tournament seeding and COVID impacts to this pool. We're seeing more 3 seeds or lower win conference tournaments than we ever have in the 11 year history of this pool. Let's take a look at our current top 4 heading into the final day: Tim is all alone with 14 total points and 17 max points SJS right behind Tim with 13 points, but only 16 max points Ryan also with 13 points, but an even lower 15 max points Dan Sohler rounds out the top 4 with 12 points, but does have 17 max points Sunday morning I will update the Big West conference tournament champion, scrub

Hartford and Norfolk State Win the Morning Championships

In the morning/early afternoon championship games (4) Hartford won its first ever America East conference championship while over in the MEAC (2N) Norfolk State is going dancing for the first time in 10 years. Absolutely nobody picked Hartford with yet another conference champion that we don't get any points for, but 44% of the pool was on Norfolk State. We finally crowdsourced a non number 1 seed conference tournament champion! On to the important stuff. The standing have been updated to include these 2 conference tournament champions along with the Tennessee and Michigan losses in the semifinals. Corey and Tim are starting to separate themselves, but we have a long day ahead of us. Clickable links below to the blog and current standings: 2021 Conference Tournament Challenge Blog Standings (One Drive)

15 Conference Tournament Championship Games Today

Today is going to be a great day of conference tournament basketball and we will have 15 championship games today. Let's get the bad news out of the way first, we had our 7th team Friday bow out with COVID issues and that team is (2) Kansas from the Big 12. Looking at our pool, 5 people selected (2) Kansas and will now take a loss which is reflected in the updated standings. The standings are also updated with the losses from Friday, which was a day full of big upsets. Our terrible stats are now refreshed with 2 days of conference tournament action left. Nobody has an accuracy number greater than 34% 29.5% Nobody has more than 27 23 max points Nobody has a projected total of more than 14 12 Only 1 bonus point team has been awarded We still have someone without a point (Sorry B.I.) Our pool has lost a combined 32 37 points due to COVID Now let's get into the good news, we are going to have 15 conference tournament championship games today and since I don't

The ACC Conference Tournament 1 Seed Virginia Eliminated Due to COVID

Less than 24 hours after Duke was eliminated due to COVID, the 1 seed Virginia is now out of the ACC conference tournament due to a positive COVID test. The ACC tournament is not doing well with COVID protocols as they have now had 2 huge games canceled within 24 hours. This is now the 6th conference tournament game canceled due to COVID across all conferences. Looking at our pool, 10 people selected (1) Virginia and will now take a loss which is reflected in the updated standings. The standings are also updated with the late game losses from last night. Take a look at some of these refreshed current pool stats and for those that have been doing this pool for a while we've never seen performance this poor before. It gets worse every day. Nobody has an accuracy number greater than 39% 34% Nobody has more than 30 27 max points Nobody has a projected total of 16 14 or greater Only 1 bonus point team has been awarded We still have someone without a point (Sorry B.I.) Our pool ha

Undefeated COVID-19 Upsets Duke in the Quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament

Coming into today (10) Duke was getting hot and making a run in the ACC conference tournament until they ran into undefeated COVID-19 in the quarterfinals today. On behalf of the college basketball world, thank you COVID-19 for using your power for good. The Duke elimination also has an interesting impact to our pool. 3 people had Duke as a 10 seed and a Duke conference tournament championship would have given Tim, Ryan and Derek a bonus payout for lowest winning seed. Unfortunately, The Duke Blue Devils were not the only team impacted with COVID today. Our 5th COVID victim is the 1 seed in the MEAC, North Carolina A&T . 6 people in our pool selected (1S) North Carolina A&T and will now all get a loss. We knew coming into the conference tournaments that we would have to navigate through COVID impacts and so far over half the pool has lost a team due to COVID related decisions. We're still in the middle of our 3 day conference tournament championship game draught, but as c