It’s great to feel like some sort of genius boy by picking all the games right in the First Round of NCAA Tournament, but it isn’t that important who’s ahead after two days. The First Round only really matters when your Champion and Final Four teams get bounced right away. Keep reading to see which Loons suffered through that.
1. LoonSchmidt – 250 points
LoonSchmidt got off to a hot start in round one, picking 25 out of 32 games correctly. He avoided the trap of picking the popular upsets of Loyola over Ohio State and South Dakota State over Providence and reaped the benefits when those higher seeds won. His East Region is completely perfect except for the Kentucky game, and that’s where it goes wrong for LoonSchmidt. He’s got the Wildcats in the Championship game, so he’s giving up massive future points with their loss.
T2. Intern Allen – 230 points
So I feel okay about how my First Round went, but I left a lot of missed opportunities out there on the board. I picked the early downfall of Iowa, but I did fall in the Loyola, SDSU, and Virginia Tech traps so I lost points on basketball sharp LoonSchmidt in those spots. Worse, I also have Kentucky in the Final Four so St. Peter’s electric loss felt anything bet electric at Casa Allen. Also, my dumb brain decided to put LSU in the Elite Eight. What was that?
T2. LoonMagz – 230 points
LoonMagz picked a completely perfect South region but was sneaky bad everywhere else. In the West, he picked incorrectly Boise State, UConn, Vermont and Davidson. The bigger issue for LoonMagz is that he’s already lost five of his Sweet Sixteen teams and, like LoonSchmidt, he has Kentucky in the National Final. Magz also dodged a couple close ones with his Elite Eight teams Wisconsin and UCLA having close calls.
T2. SlimLoon – 230 points
It may say T2 next SlimLoon’s name but he is completely finished. With his Champion (Kentucky) eliminated and a Final Four team (Iowa) gone as well, SlimLoon may as well start prepping for the USFL season because he will not be relevant in March. Also, I’m going to take this space to say that the Kentucky game was one of the worst performance I’ve seen from a Blue Blood team in the tournament. It was so hard to watch.
5. LoonBeast – 220 points
LoonBeast may be in fifth, but he might be in the best position of any of us. He’s got Kentucky in the Final Four as well, but not in the Championship game and that’s the only team he’s lost in his Elite Eight. As long as his horse stay in the race (shoutout Cuerdo), nobody’s going to care that LoonBeast did a sloppy job picking first round matchups.
6. LoonMush – 200 points
LoonMush was smart to pick a lot of upsets in the First Round, but he was dumb in that he picked all the wrong ones. He loved Chattanooga, South Dakota State, and Colgate, but not Richmond, New Mexico State, and Notre Dame. To be fair, the Colgate-to-the-Sweet-Sixteen take aged well for most of that Wisconsin game, but they ended up losing so now nobody cares. Mush also has Kentucky in the Final so it’s not about to get better.
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