NC State won their play-in game tonight and will officially join the 64-team bracket (as will Albany). Which is news to the 97 of us who didn't pick the Wolfpack into the field. Yes, just 6 of us (Babenzien, Hammer, M Pogach, Selig 1, Selig 2, Watson) were wise enough to foresee NC State's inclusion in the field. Similarly, only 7 of our contestants (B Brenner, Chumchucker, Corey, Gorenstein, Sanders, Selig 1, Steitz) envisioned Dayton as an at-large team (as opposed to the location where NC State played tonight), and only 12 had the guts to pick Nebraska.
On the other side, the NIT team with the most votes from our bunch is SMU, in which 97 of our entrants vainly gave their vote of confidence. We also put our misplaced faith in Minnesota (71), St. John's (39), Missouri (39), Florida State (21), and St. Mary's (20). Less loved but no less a waste of a vote were SEC teams Ole Miss (17), Georgia (14), and LSU (11), along with Georgetown (15), Southern Mississippi (11), Toledo (10), UTEP (8), West Virginia (7), and Richmond (7).
Individual recognition goes to Steitz, who selected Ohio U, Princeton, Towson, Bradley, Indiana, Hawaii, and Incarnate Word, all at large, and also spent three of his slots on Horizon League teams (Green Bay, Milwaukee, and Cleveland State).
But in one of the greatest at-large slates ever conceived in this contest, we bow down to Urban Angels, who chose as at-large teams American (got points for that one), Texas Southern (ditto), Auburn, Boston College, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Charleston Southern, Drexel, Jacksonville, James Madison, LaSalle, Loyola Marymount, Notre Dame, Missouri State, Sacramento State, Seattle, Vanderbilt, Oregon State, Penn, Indiana State, CS-Fullerton, Houston, Texas State, Texas-San Antonio, and Abilene Christian. Just typing that list sends chills up and down our fingers. Hail, Urban Angels, we are not worthy.
More fun tomorrow.
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