Day 5 Recap

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The second weekend of the NCAA Tournament is officially upon us. It's also Easter weekend, which marks the anniversary of the time when Jesus died, realized he was going to miss the NCAA Tournament Finals, rose from the dead for a while, realized it was baseball season again, and decided to just head to Heaven. Pretty sure that story was told in one of the Gnostic Gospels.

Today a few people asked why the totals on the pick chart don't match the actual number of entries. Well, if you assholes would stop submitting picks and then changing them, the pie chart thing wouldn't screw up. It's your fault, don't blame us. Speaking of stuff people did wrong, as I warned you the other day, we don't look at picks until we put ours in, so we can't catch your mistakes...tonight Brandon Daulton picked Texas A&M...a ballsy pick...a ballsy pick he had also made a few days ago. Luckily for Brandon his mistake resulted in hi being put onto Kansas instead (the biggest favorite of the night), so he was saved from himself and lives to fight another day.

It took five days, but we finally got a day with some match-ups that would force people to make a little bit tougher decisions. In the Oregon v Duke match-up there were 21 Oregon picks and 10 Duke picks. Villanova v Miami attracted 41 picks on Nova and 13 on Miami. So there was SOME disagreement tonight. I mean, the majority was right on both occasions again...but, at least we had some guaranteed eliminations.

As far as the games themselves....well....they weren't super exciting. Really, nothing very exciting happened in these games. They were all pretty much blowouts.

Villanova manhandled Miami. Oklahoma crushed Texas A&M, moving 20 combatants on to Friday. Kansas took over in the second half and sent another 17 on to tomorrow. And, in the nightcap Oregon sent Grayson Allen's super punchable face back to Carolina and sent 10 weak willed participants along with him.

We have finally fallen below the century mark on number of participants still alive...but just barely as 99 humans have been savvy enough to pick winners for five consecutive days. Last year at this point we only had 66 people hanging around. So, we continue to have a bigger pool than last year. Percentage wise, 30% of our entries were alive at this time last year, this year it's 38%.

Remember to have your picks in by the time the first game tips off! And, ya know, make sure not to use a team you've already used. Fail to do either of these things and you'll get put on Virginia probably, they're currently the biggest favorite for tonight.