There was no conference champion about which our collective wisdom was more sure. It was as good a lock as anyone was going to get in our contest -- 74 out of 75 entries listed "Belmont" as OVC champion. If our contestants felt good about anything, it was this.
You can probably guess the rest.
It took all the way until March 2 for that good feeling to dissipate. After going 15-1 in regular season OVC play, Belmont went 0-1 in its conference tournament, losing by 6 to Jacksonville State. The sole individual who did not go with Belmont, the ubiquitous Mash Leach, will presumably be rooting hard for Tennessee-Martin in the OVC championship game, later tonight.
In the Atlantic Sun, North Florida (chosen by M Pogach and L Schlegel) continued its improbable run and will face favorite Florida Gulf Coast (selected by 67) in the conference championship tomorrow. In the NEC, Robert Morris (picked by Fitch and Grossman) beat LIU (liked by 17) and moves on to face Mount St. Mary's (faved by 51 of us) in a conference semifinal today. In the Big South, Winthrop (taken by 41) survived Gardner-Webb in overtime, and will play Campbell (taken by nobody but beat UNCA (picked by 32) anyway) in the conference championship tomorrow.
Unless you count President Trump tweeting this morning that President Obama tapped his phones, nothing else worth noting has happened. The only other team with as many votes (74) as Belmont had is Vermont in the America East, so look out, Catamounts, in your next game on Monday.
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