Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Some Conference Tourney Pick Info

The picks are in and the leaderboard is posted, but with 49 entries it can be tough to tell who you should be rooting against. Sure, you're pulling for the teams you picked, but, more than that you want everyone else to lose. So, here's a couple quick looks at the most popular (and least popular) teams:

First, here's a look at the top picks overall:

Arizona 26
Kentucky 19
Villanova 14
Michigan State 14
Kansas 13
Oklahoma 13
Cincinnati 13
Rhide Island 13
Duke 12
Wisconsin 12
Memphis 10
California 10
Xavier 9
Iowa State 9
Iowa 9
North Carolina 9
Virginia 9

Here's the most popular picks by seed:

Seed Team Pick Count
1 Villanova 14
2 UK 19
3 Oklahoma  13
4 Arizona 26
5 Duke 12
6 Wisconsin 12
7 Rhode Island 13
8 Florida 8

Shout out to Hunter Bridwell for having the chalkiest bracket filled out in the 1-6 spots. He's got Nova, UK, OU, Arizona, Duke, AND Wisconsin. If he had used Rhode Island instead of Duquesne he'd have been a regular James Surowiceki

There are no duplicate entries, which is at least a little interesting. There are a few entries with 6/8 in common, but I didn't notice any 7/8 matches.

Finally here are some teams only chosen once:

Name Pick Seed
Hunter Bridwell Duquesne 8
Neil Smith Dayton 1
Mercy Rich Temple 1
Brian Julius South Florida 8
Cerberus Houston 2
JulieC Syracuse 8
JulieC West Virginia 2
Cerberus Baylor 5
Phil Crone Clemson 7
JulieC Oregon 1
Chris Moline Minnesota  8
Big Brown Notre Dame 4
Neil Smith Providence 4
Wildturkeydaughter Utah 2
Wildturkeydaughter Tennessee 8
Clearly, my lovely mother (JulieC) is either smarter than everyone....or has no idea what she's doing.....

Meanwhile, my lovely brother (Phil Crone) had Clemson blow an 18 point lead with 8 minutes left in the game to lose that pick, for those who didn't see the end of the game, here it is: LINK.

It's also kind of interesting that Hunter Bridwell, on the chalkiest set of picks we received, had the 6 most popular picks for their seed....and then has a team no one else used. 

Good luck all!

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