We’re four games in, and chaos has already begun. 9.6% of brackets in our NIT Bracket Challenge have seen their champion eliminated. AK Okereke lost a tooth. (Cornell seems like a school that would have such good dentists.)
If you want to check your score and get on with it, here’s the scoreboard. As for the rest of you…
Thank you to everyone who submitted a bracket to our challenge. We are so happy to have all of you with us. A few notes:
- We ended up with 1,019 submissions, but we filtered eight of those out because it appeared someone was trying to correct a prior submission. In these cases, we took the second submission as the official one. If this was wrong (you can check your picks on our master scoreboard), please get in touch with us at allthingsnit@gmail.com so we can correct it.
- A few brackets came from the same email address as other brackets in the field. We do have a rule against that, but we’re keeping those brackets on the board. They’ll simply be ineligible to finish in the top three. The ineligible brackets are listed in the tab at the end on the master scoreboard. If one of these was your bracket and you end up finishing with a score that would have been in the top three? We’ll be in touch. We’re big softies.
- We were working pretty fast when we put together the celebrity scoreboard, so if you’ve been on it in the past and we missed you, or if you believe yourself a celebrity (our threshold is pretty low), please let us know.
- If you’re on the celebrity board and want to change your bracket’s name, again, contact us. We believe it’s ok for us to tell you all: Metro Conference 4ever is the great Ken Pomeroy. Palo Alto Pride is the great Stanford Steve.
Again, here’s the scoreboard. It’ll be updated shortly after all games (if we’re attending a game it might be later). We’ll have updates in our daily NIT posts, as well as email updates at significant points (after each round, before the Final Four, etc.) for those who signed up.
Thank you, again, for being here. N–I–T! N–I–T!
