Mario Day Conference Championship Game Previews

This is going to be a great night watching basketball for our pool, we have 5 conference tournament championship games to throw our standings upside down on Mario day! The 5 conference tournament championship games tonight will be played in the Colonial, Horizon, Northeast, Summit and West Coast conferences. Here. We. Go.

STANDINGS

Colonial Championship Game

• (1) Hofstra will be playing (6) Northeastern and we almost have an even split between those that picked Hofstra vs. those that picked Northeastern.

• 7 players in the pool went with the bonus pick (6) Northeastern, they clearly did some studying for so many to pick a 6 seed.

• If (6) Northeastern pulls this off the standings really get flipped and we're likely to have a 7 way tie for the "Lowest Winning Seed" pot, not sure we'll see a lower seed win.

• A (1) Hofstra win is definitely not as big of an impact as (6) Northeastern winning which means we'll have 26 players rooting for the 1 seed.

Horizon League Championship Game

• (2) Northern Kentucky will be playing (4) Illinois-Chicago and we don't have many players left in this conference

• 2 players in the pool went with the bonus pick (4) Illinois-Chicago, TrainGuy really needs this win to get on the board while the Olsen couple need this to vault themselves into 1st place.

• Only 6 players went with (2) Northern Kentucky, which is not shocking since the analytics were not with NKU.

Northeast Championship Game

• In a match-up of chalk, (1) Robert Morris will be playing (2) St. Francis PA and we almost have an even split between those that picked Bob Morris vs. those that picked St. Francis PA.

• We really don't have much to cover in this league, the analytics say (2) St. Francis PA wins, but Vegas favors (1) Robert Morris by 1 point, either way this should be a great game.

Summit League Championship Game

• (1) North Dakota State will be playing (6) North Dakota in the battle for the higher Dakota.

• No one in our pool picked (6) North Dakota, but we do have 11 players on (1) North Dakota State making this a critical conference tournament championship win since most people were not on the 1 seed.

• The analytics did say to go with (1) North Dakota State, however a staggering 50% of our pool went with the 2 seed, South Dakota State. As a group we're typically not this wrong.

West Coast Conference Championship Game

• As usual we'll see (1) Gonzaga playing in the West Coast Championship game and they will be matched up against (3) St. Mary's

• 85% of the players in our pool went with (1) Gonzaga, so a Gonzaga win really means nothing