Day 1 Recap

Fellow Romans, lend me your ears...or, your eyes I guys...because, this is written, and you can't hear writing...well, I guess you can read it to yourself through internal vocalization, I don't know if that's the proper term, it might be wrong. Wait, what was I saying? What was this whole thing even about? Let me get back on track, The Suicide Pool Day 1 Recap starts........NOW.

First off, this thing is All About The Money so let's get this cleared up right off the bat....PAY OFFS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Main Pool

1st - $1,230
2nd - $500
3rd - $200
4th - $75
5th - $50

Referral Pool

1st - $200
2nd - $100
3rd - $25

Obviously, the first game of the day set off fireworks when THE (pompous) Ohio State University was sent packing and Aaron Craft's 10 year college career came to an end. My favorite tweet from the ending can be found HERE by the way...and, just like that, the player the media slobbered over for years was unceremoniously sent home, and haters everywhere rejoiced. More importantly it knocked out 10 suicide pool entries right off the bat and set into motion a wave of pseudo rebuys as everyone scrambled to get an extra entry.

But, alas, as so often happens, after a crazy start things evened out pretty quickly. The only game that really sent people packin was NC State absolutely blowing it against Saint Louis. I forget the exact numbers, but they had something like a 25 point lead with 18 seconds remaining, promptly missed 43 straight FTs, and Jordair Jett's Majestic Hair was simply too much for NC State to overcome. Keep in mind, NC State was a 12 seed that only THREE out of 121 Bracketologists on BracketMatrix even had making the tournament.....and, despite this, seven of you (including Alvin and the Chipmunks) decided they were the team you wanted to risk your entry on.

The best picks of the day ended up being by Kimberly Lomot (who also finished second in our Conference Pick Em) and Alex Shearer who got big wins from Harvard and Dayton respectively. I was a little surprised Kimberly was the only entry on Harvard as the Crimson were a pretty hot underdog pick.

Finally, a special shout out goes to Sean Kellihan who used his two entries to choose Ohio State and NC State.  Well played Sean, well played.

25 entries down, 94 still standing.  Here's the leaderboard for all who misplaced that link.  Day 2 picks will go live at the tip of the first game.  Good luck all.