2019 NCAA Tournament Survivor Pool Day 3 Recap

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Well, once again Day 3 started with a bang. LSU, once again playing while being coached by a mascot Tiger, pulled out a victory with a layup with just 1 second left on the clock. That layup moved 23 brave geniuses on to day 4 while sending a mere two entries home. So, we only lost two people to start the day. But, it's early, and there's a lot of great games left. Clearly, this was going to be the first of many great games on the third day of the Tournament! It's not like the rest of the day would be incredibly boring with every favorite winning. This is the NCAA Tournament. THIS. IS. MADNESS! Right?

Wrong.

The rest of the day was basically too boring to recap. Really, the only game that did any real damage to the Survivor Pool was Florida State dismantling Murray State. Unsurprisingly the actual state State was able to upend the fake state of Murray. But, this game did knock out 20 believers in the hype of Ja, so, for that reason alone, it was by far the most interesting game of the day. It was a low bar.

Look, it's late, and I've done literally no research to back this up. But, I'm just going to go ahead and say that this is the first time in NCAA Tournament history that every 2nd Round game in a day was won by 1-4 seeds. It's never happened before. Don't fact check it...I didn't...just roll with it.

Remember last year? We had nuns coaching 11 seeds to Final Fours. We had 9s and 7s beating 1s and 2s. We had FUN. This year...what do ya got? Nothing. Just a bunch of 1s and 2 seeds winning by 50 and moving everyone on to the next day.

Basically I should've just made THIS VIDEO the recap of today and been done with it.

We started the day with 251 live entries, we ended the day with 209 entries as just 42 people were unable to pick favorites and advance. That means that we still have 33% of our pool alive heading into Day 4.