5 More Tickets Punched to a Tournament that will Never Happen

This has been the most depressing day in conference tournament history, we keep getting bad news story after bad news story. Ivy League conference tournament canceled, MAC and Big West tournaments will be played in empty stadiums and a real possibility the NCAA Tournament gets canceled within the next 72 hours. Even with all that bad news, the basketball games have been awesome so we'll enjoy the few days we have left, below is a recap of today. We had 3 court storms this evening for teams that may have played their last game of the season.

It was a very chalky evening of games as we first saw (1) Robert Morris destroy (2) St. Francis PA in the Northeast conference. Only 8 players had Robert Morris and Penguin finally got on the board with his first win!

The second conference tournament championship finish we saw was in the Colonial conference and (1) Hofstra beat (6) Northeastern in what was a close game up until the last 90 seconds. Many players picked Northeastern and by them losing it really keeps everyone alive in the pool, a Northeastern win would have been a dagger for many players. Not many players had Hofstra and Penguin got his second win of the tournament! This shows how quickly a player can get right back in to the mix.

The Horizon League was another opportunity for Bonus points, however (4) UIC was blown out by (2) Northern Kentucky. Only 2 players in our pool had UIC so this wouldn't have been a dagger like Northeastern, but the story is the same, everyone is still well in the mix without these bonus point teams winning.

In the Summit league (1) North Dakota State completely dismantled (6) North Dakota in a 30 point win that was never in doubt. Only 11 players went with the 1 seed in this conference so everyone that got the win here was able to really jump a few spots in the standings.

Finally, in the last game of the night (1) Gonzaga had trouble with (3) Saint Mary's early on, but as we got into the 2nd half Gonzaga pulled away and was able to win very easily. The majority of us did have Gonzaga as the champion so nothing to celebrate, except that TrainGuy finally got his 1st win and now everyone in the pool is on the board with a win!

The link below has the current spreadsheet updated with all the games tonight, no late night games were played that we'll need to wait for. We have an amazing battle at the top of the standings with Dan Sohler and Chris Iannuzzi, both with 8 wins and a 72.7% winning percentage. The winning percentage is unbelievable, something we have not seen in the past this far into conference tournament week. Joey is right behind them, he has 8 wins but a lower winning percentage. Also, Brad has snuck up to the top with 7 wins.

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Let's hope we get some better Coronavirus related news tomorrow, but I am not optimistic based on how everything has been trending.