Friday, March 21, 2014

Have Mercer

Duke's loss to Mercer deprives 15 entrants of their Champion, 46 entrants of one of their Final Four and 75 entrants of one of their Elite Eight. Cincinnati going down robbed T Joseph of his champion, 14 people of one of their Elite Eight, and Butscher, T Joseph, M Leach, Moscow, M Peloso, Selarnick, and B Wright of a Final Four team.

That's pretty bad, but not as bad as the five people (Case, Gorenstein, Lenok 2, M McAtee, Templeton) who took NIT participant SMU into the Elite Eight. Others who took uninvited teams into the Elite Eight include Kovolski (Boston U) and T Cristinzio (Southern Mississippi), plus a couple others (to be discussed later). Others among us who took teams into the Elite Eight who didn't make it to the first weekend include Baumgarten, B Brenner, S Leach, R Simon (all four of whom took Ohio State), Crotty, J McAtee (both of whom took St. Joseph's), D Kornfeld, Steitz (both of whom took Oklahoma State), T Joseph 2 (New Mexico), and Booth (Xavier). Crotty also took St. Joe's into his Final Four.

Special mention goes to A Cristinzio, who selected both first round loser Delaware and uninvited Clemson into his Elite Eight. But that isn't even close to the most dazzling performance of the year (maybe the decade, possibly of all time). For those who were near-blinded by Urban Angels' slate of at-large selections, please shield your eyes from the following:

Urban Angels' Elite Eight: Wichita State, Boston U, Chattanooga, Houston, New Mexico State, NC-Ashville, NC Central, and North Dakota State.

Urban Angels' Final Four: UCLA, Texas Southern, Georgetown, and Texas-San Antonio.

OK, you can open your eyes now.

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