NIT pool!!!

[Oz]

I cannot be any worse in the NCAA pool. right?

I would hope not.

 

[McNuggetsMan]

How about an update to the standings? If I finish last, do I get my entry fee back?

 

[Armchair_QB]

****, I wanted to get in this. Too late.

Sorry dude. I didn't even start it until AFTER the first games had started. I'd like to get you in retroactively just for the hair pie shot from earlier today.

Updates coming soon!

I'm glad somebody got that reference. Should have known you would.

 

[Kable]

West Virginia, I hate to say it, but you're in for a tough ball game tonight. NC State has been hot since the ACC tourney. 5-1 in their last six. Plus, WVU beat NCSU w/o Atsur. Atsur will play tonight.

 

[Blitz]

MState up 17 on FState with 14 mins left.
New York City, here we come.
Color commentary man Steve Bardo said earlier that top to bottom, the SEC was the most competitive basketball conference in the country.
You know I gotta agree.

 

[Blitz]

A 3-point fiesta for both teams and a deuce is all that separates NCSU and WestVa with under 2 left.
What a game in the NIT quarters at Morgantown !
(Neither of these teams seems fazed by the prospect of having to face Mississippi State in the Garden. )

 

[DisembodiedOwlHead]

WVU, 8-2 and counting in the postseason the past 3 years. 1-0 against the Mighty Atsur.

 

[linotype]

So am I still in first place, with three of my Final Four still alive?

 

[Angola!]

Come on Syracuse, rally dammit.

 

[ondeadline]

You can't have the NIT semifinals without a South Carolina team, I guess.

 

[linotype]

This one ain't over, folks.

 

[ondeadline]

There's no crying in the NIT! Oh, I guess that's OK since it's the coach's kid.

 

[BYH]

Sorry folks will update this as soon as the Air Force-DePaul game goes final. The last two nights, I've been booted from this place by the stupid host problems.

 

[write then drink]

good freaking lord

you don't rush the court when you win an NIT quarterfinal ...

 

[Hammer Pants]

good freaking lord

you don't rush the court when you win an NIT quarterfinal ...

I don't understand what happened. They didn't even hit a buzzer-beater. Weird.

 

[ondeadline]

What the heck else is there to do in Clemson?

 

[BYH]

good freaking lord

you don't rush the court when you win an NIT quarterfinal ...

You do if you've never had anything else to celebrate.

I know one school where the whole damn arena was gonna storm the court if the team could have just won one more ******* game last year. No names!

 

[BYH]

Holy moley do I suck. Linotype, meanwhile, will win it all as long as Mississippi State doesn't win it all.

Standings thru the quarterfinals:

linotype: 28 pts
TheSportsPredictor: 21 pts
Angola!: 20 pts
crimsonace: 16 pts
Blitz: 16 pts
McNuggetsMan: 16 pts
Idaho: 15 pts
BYH: 10 pts

REMAINING TEAMS:
linotype: West Virginia (champions)
TSP: West Virginia (runner-up)
Blitz: Mississippi State (champions)
McNuggetsMan: West Virginia (champions)
Idaho: Clemson (semis)

Linotype can do no worse than tie for the title. The only person who can tie linotype is Blitz, who will have 28 pts if Mississippi State beats WVA in the semis and wins the title game. Blitz would win the tiebreaker because he had the champion (note: no tiebreaker option was offered at the start of the pool. This is something I just decided. My ability to decide on a tiebreaker late in the tournament was spelled out in the fine print I did not produce).

The rest of us are playing out the string. Especially me.

 

[linotype]

Chalk was just as prevalent in the NIT as it was in the NCAA. All four No. 1 seeds advance. Shows the value of home court -- by my quick math, home teams were 24-4 in the first three rounds.

EDIT to correct home teams' record.

 

[BYH]

FWIW, a 3 and a 5 made it to NYC last year. But yeah, chalk. Gotta remember chalk.