Now Loyola Chicago Goes Down in Arch Madness!

Earlier today in #Archmadness30 we saw the 1 seed Northern Iowa go down, now in the second game of the day we saw (2) Loyola Chicago lose to (7) Valparaiso. Loyola Chicago blew a 2nd half 18 point lead, missed 50% of their free throws and lost in overtime by not scoring a FG in over 4 minutes. Only 3 out of 33 of us have a chance to win the Missouri Valley conference, all 3 are on (4) Bradley. We seem to always have trouble picking the winner of this conference, last year nobody picked the champion.

(3) Gardner-Webb was a popular bonus point pick in the Big South conference and they ended up getting blow out by (2) Winthrop. Also in the Big South conference (5) Hampton destroyed (1) Radford, knocking out 41% of our conference tournament championship picks. I would be doing a disservice to Tina if I did not include at least one sad player almost 5 days in to tournament play.

The link below has the current spreadsheet.  The only game that has not finished yet is (2) Utah State vs. (11) Wyoming, I'll update the standings to include this game in the morning.

STANDINGS

Tomorrow we will have 2 conference tournament championship games!  In addition to posting the current standings I will preview the 2 conference tournament championship games. We'll finally start filling out that W column tomorrow night. I feel like I have not made fun of enough people yet and I have not been including any Vegas pictures, even though we have 2 active tournaments being played in Vegas, so I'll make that more of a focus in my updates this weekend.