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Well, we came into this wondering if the 260 entries we got last year would be topped. We thought we would get close, maybe beat it by a few if we were lucky. Instead, we ended up with 357 entries today. THREE HUNDRED FIFTY SEVEN. And, we did it without a crazy upset sending everyone scrambling to re-buy. We're Making America Great you guys!
And now, day one is in the books. It was an interesting day of basketball, but not really that crazy by survivor pool standards. We didn't lose any of our most popular picks as Notre Dame, Middle Tennessee, and Wisconsin all advanced. Out of 357 entries 51 failed to advance to Day 2. For the nerds out there, that means 14.3% of the entries are now out.
The closest our popular picks came to losing was the first game of the day. Notre Dame was our co-most popular pick with 35 entries (just under 10% of the total pool) riding on their Irish backs. Last year, Notre Dame pulled off some amazing escapes, and some things never change. Princeton blew a lot of late chances and sent Wildturkeygd7 packing. This was a HUGE win for Irish fans....now they can get black out drunk on St. Patrick's Day in celebration of the win....you know, instead of getting black out drunk on St. Patrick's Day to forget a painful loss. Irish people like to drink.
The co-favorite pick, also with 35 entries, was Middle Tennessee State. Look, I'm not an expert on the Middle of Tennessee. I don't know a lot about it. But, I do know that their main source of jobs and income comes from owning the Big Ten. Eight entries were sent home when Minnesota lost, including The Winning Kraft1 who tempted fate with such arrogance in naming.
Of course, we all know the Middle of Tennessee is nicer than Eastern Tennessee...and ETSU proved it today getting handled by Florida. This moved on 16 entries while knocking out just three.
Wisconsin proved the haters wrong and showed the world that the second best team in the Big Ten can beat the eighth best team in the ACC....if that team has a main player sit much of the game with a foot injury. Five unfortunate entries got knocked out.
In celebrity news, Northwestern got a win in their first NCAA Tournament game and made Julia Louis Dreyfus happy. It was an...interesting...finish. That dude at Vanderbilt decided to take an interesting tact and foul intentionally while up 1 with 14 seconds left...unfortunately, his brilliant plan backfired and allowing Northwestern to take the lead late wasn't a sound gameplan after all. Still, this wasn't a huge swing either way in the pool as nine (lucky, lucky, lucky) people advanced after picking Northwestern and nine (what did you do to piss off the universe) people had their Survivor Pool entry crushed into oblivion.
In other celebrity news, Xavier knocked off Maryland and made Bill Murray happy (I mean, I guess he's happy...he never REALLY looks happy). This was the biggest upset of the day according to Las Vegas books as Xavier was given virtually no chance as a massive two point underdog. Yet, they overcame the odds, they overcame nature itself, and they emerged victorious. Not bad for a team that ended their season like THIS. Maryland took seven entries down with them, while 17 brave souls advanced with the underdog win.
Meanwhile, UNC Wilmington gave six entry holders some excitement early, but folded late to let 22 Virginia entries advance. Butler also advanced 22 entries and knocked out no one...that's really kind of amazing. Not a single person took a shot on Winthrop. I would've expected at least a couple. St. Mary's advanced 19 while knocking out five VCU entries. And, West Virginia allowed 23 more to advance, while Gamblers Anonymous2 was sent home for picking Bucknell...the good news, you get specifically named in this famous blog!
In other news Gonzaga and Villanova easily separated in the second half and got wins. Purdue proved the best team in the Big Ten is a little better than Vermont. In the late games, Florida State advanced ten entries while knocking out four FGCU entries and Iowa State advanced 22 entries while knocking out just two. In the day's final game, Arizona beat North Dakota (probably...I posted before it was technically over, so this is fake news). Who knows, some other stuff probably happened too.
Best of luck tomorrow everyone. Oh, and Rest In Peace Tom Crean, we hardly knew ye.
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