Six Seed Wagner is Going Dancing

The first of our 5 games to finish was the Northeast Conference championship where (6) Wagner knocked off (2) Merrimack. Can a team be seeded worse than a 16 seed in the NCAA Tournament? If yes, Wagner would be it. This game resulted in nobody getting a win in our pool, giving new life to Fuss, TJH, and Rory & Webb. #toughness

The Horizon League wrapped up next with favorite (1) Oakland narrowly escaping with a win against (6) Milwaukee. This was a fantastic game for 38 minutes, but Oakland stepped on the gas at the end and won easily. Fuss, Iannuzzi, Doug One, and Doug Two get the win in a conference where only four people took the 1 seed for some reason. 😮 

In the Coastal Athletic conference championship game (1) Charleston went into overtime and beat (7) Stony Brook to punch its ticket to the NCAA Tournament. This game was the best game of the night, and I found myself rooting for Stony Brook, but they couldn't pull it off in the end. 😰

The West Coast conference championship wasn't that great of a game as (1) St. Mary's controlled everything against (2) Gonzaga and won easily. This was a pivital conference for our pool and impacted the standings. I'll recap the standings at the bottom of this blog entry. 💤

Wrapping up the night, the Summit League championship was one of the worst that I have ever watched. (1) South Dakota State pummeled (7) Denver in a joke of a game. Although, for those on South Dakota State, this was a nice relaxing game to watch, it's all about perspective. This was bad for Matthew. 😬 

The current standings can be found here, and we have a fantastic race at the top of the standings. We now have 4 players tied for 1st place: Sohler, Fuss, TJH, and Matthew. They are in the driver's seat, but a whole bunch of people are right behind them. Nobody is out of this yet, even if you're Running Hoarses in last place, we still have 21 more conference tournaments to go! We'll have 3 more conference championships on Wednesday, then we have a break for a few days. More to come in a later blog entry.