Tuesday, February 27, 2018

3 More Mid-Major Conferences Tip Off Wednesday: Big 10, Northeast, and Ohio Valley

Link to the Standings

We do have some changes to the standings due to additional seeding being finalized, what a way to lose ground.  😂😂😂

This really impacted the Grimmer's, Jenn jumped up 5 spots to the Top 10 and John fell down 6 spots.  For those new to this, it literally means nothing, this is normal as conference seeds are finalized and teams that were a bonus 3 seed are now a 2 seed and teams that were a 2 seed are now a bonus 4 seed.


Nothing of any value happened tonight with the 2 conference tournaments that were in action tonight, everyone in our pool was too afraid to reach for a 7-10 seed.  The excitement will pick back up tomorrow as 3 more conference tournaments tip off, which means we'll have a total of 6 conference tournaments in progress.

We'll cover the Big 10 first, they are one of the mid major conferences tipping off Wednesday, however only seeds 11-14 are playing so no impact to our pool.  Nothing else to cover with the Big 10, hope you're into Illini, Rutgers, Indiana, or Hawkeye basketball.

LOOK HOW BORING THIS LOOKS
The Northeast Conference also tips off Wednesday night, which brings much more excitement as all our teams are in play.  The thing that pisses me off the most about this conference is they have 2 teams named St. Francis, it always takes me a moment to figure out which one won or lost, hopefully they just both lose and make it easy for me.

  • 20 (59%) are riding 1 seed Wagner to the conference championship, a Wagner loss would take over half of the pool out; they are 10 point favorites so I am thinking this game will be an easy Wagner win; Team Rankings gives Wagner a 49% chance to win the conference tournament so we have over reached on them as a group
  • The other picks are more spread out across Mount St. Mary's and the St. Francis teams; I am surprised no one is on LIU-Brooklyn or Bob Morris as those teams have had recent conference tournament success
  • Everyone can make it through without a loss on Wednesday in this conference, but that won't be any fun, so I hope a lot of people lose


The Ohio Valley Conference will not have any impact on our pool as it is the 5-8 seeds playing, no one has a seed lower than a 3 in this conference.  

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