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 conferences move into the quarterfinals we're seeing more highly ranked teams face off, causing more pool losses. A few additional key losses in our pool today include (1) Villanova in the Big East, (4) West Virginia in the Big 12, (4) Boise State in the Mountain West and (8) Kentucky in the SEC.

 

     

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