WHAT. A. NITe.
So read the text from a dear friend of mine just 53 minutes ago, as Oregon prepared to inbound the ball and close out a pair of exhilarating NIT games with a dastardly close missed three.
What a NITe indeed.
We’ll have more on those two games in the daylight, but for now, our NIT Bracket Challenge scoreboards are updated. Here’s who leads, and whom they have from here:
1. Vandy Got Screwed [33 points, 45 max possible score, remaining picks: Rutgers, Vanderbilt, North Texas, Rutgers, Rutgers, 8]
2. All NITe Long (All NITe) [32, 72, Cincinnati, Vanderbilt, Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Wisconsin, 32]
3. Bonaventure Joe [30, 66, Cincinnati, Toledo, Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 23]
T-4. Jake Marsh [29, 65, Rutgers, UAB, Wisconsin, UAB, Wisconsin, 18]
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T-7. RatherDashing [28, 60, Cincinnati, Vanderbilt, Liberty, Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt, 34]
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T-16. ManderTank [27, 67, Cincinnati, Vanderbilt, North Texas, Cincinnati, North Texas, 34]
T-16. Maverick [27, 63, Rutgers, UAB, North Texas, UAB, UAB, 25]
That’s not a complete list of who could win, but it does include our top three, our top celebrity (Jake Marsh, one of only three celebrities with their champion remaining), and the top scoring entry with every remaining possible champion. Remember: No one picked Utah Valley to win it all.
We’ll have full Final Four scenarios after tomorrow NITe’s games, with who wins and who finishes top-3 in each of what will then be eight combinations of results (or more, if we have to go to the roulette wheel tiebreaker).
Good luck sleeping with that on deck.
Only celebrity with their champion remaining?? My confidence in the North Texas Mean Green knows no bounds!
I have greatly erred. Correcting it now!
Remember Badgers 1 for 15 from long range..still wins by 4 over Liberty!
> But in this game. one of the Badgers’ better shooters goes 1 for 9… they hit 33 percent-well below their average…and miss 12 of 18 layups and Still won!!~ Imagine the score had they just hit their average. No matter. Look at how many close games the Badgers blew this year in the Big Ten. Losing huge leads in close ones they won and ones they had lost. Many. Purdue-Rutgers-Michigan-Mich. St.-Nebraska and NW-twice! And Kansas. All lost in closing minutes.Now turning them into wins.
My main hope with my bracket run is that at least one person 100%s Peasants Quest after seeing this. Show your gold,