Day 3 Wrap Up

Oh NCAA Tournament, you're quite a fickle mistress...For your first two glorious days you wasted no time in providing fireworks. Right off the bat you slapped us in our stupid faces and yelled, "LOOK AT ME!" And, then, Day 3 happened.

Expecting mayhem, we tuned in early just to see Florida dominating Pitt in an unsurprising result that advanced a few Suicide Pool players. Then we saw a horrible display of "basketball" featuring Louisville and St. Louis. For those of you that missed it, the game looked a little like THIS. This time nine players advanced as Louisville drew off and somehow handed St. Louis their worst loss of the season (that's right, 15 point win, the biggest margin St. Louis lost by all season).

As the evening games started things stayed quiet. Michigan handled their business and easily dispatched Texas (advancing 7 more players). Meanwhile, San Diego State overwhelmed the North Dakota State BiZons, and in the process made THIS GUY cry. Don't worry Saul Phillips, we'll always remember you for knocking out Oklahoma and then doing THIS. And, really, one NCAA Tourney win for North Dakota is like the most exciting thing that's happened there since English was declared the official language of the state in 1987 (seriously, that's not even a joke, it really happened: PROOF). This finally eliminated a few suckers as Sam Buente, Jordan Doepke, Andy Lonnon, and one of your GameMasters, Phil Crone, all got a little too cute and tried to beat Steve Fisher and SDSU. Still the Aztecs advanced 14 of our players.

So, with 4 games down we had eliminated just 4 contestants.....and then.....

BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE!

Syracuse was, far and away, the most popular pick in the pool so far this year. The Dayton Flyers were representing an A10 Conference that has been something like THIS so far in the Tournament. But, Sean Miller's little brother and the team he coaches had their mojo working on Saturday night. They sent the Orangemen back to Syracuse and ended the Suicide Pool for a whopping 31 contestants.  Once again, the A-10 provides us with our Suicide Pool Grim Reaper.  Dayton has single-handedly cleared 41 entries from the pool, much like La Salle last year, who managed to smite 26 of 89 entries in 2013. Oh NCAA Tournament, right when we were starting to question you you go and do this. Like I said, quite a fickle mistress.


Wisconsin and Michigan State both rallied late to notch wins over Oregon and Harvard respectively. These games didn't advance many people, and only one guy, Bryan Maggard, was eliminated in either game. Nice try with Oregon Bryan. Their gameplan of blinding the opposition with bright colors and coming out with the Flying V chanting Ducks Fly Together didn't work this time (I absolutely imagine this is what EVERY Oregon halftime locker room is like).

Our final game of the night saw UConn knocking off Jay Wright, my mom's favorite coach. Surprisingly, only two people had hitched their wagon to Jay Wright's star, so we must bid adieu to Jordan Doepke (two mentions in these recaps is not a good thing Jordan) and Brooke Neace.

Thus completes the Day 3 Wrap Up, hopefully, you got a little information, laughed a little, cried a little, and learned a thing or two. After three days we're down to just 41 entries out of the initial 119. Good luck to those of you still fighting the good fight.