This is normally the exciting time where I will post the 8 potential scenarios that exist, and you can look through them to see what teams you want to root for to do the best.  These are always unofficial – as I am not going to guarantee that I did not mistype something into the forms.  As always, the official standings are the main links at the top of the blog, and I will wait for the results to be final to award any prizes.

If I have done everything correctly, this year has a first (as far as I can remember).  Thanks to the fact that no one has chosen hardly any of the teams remaining, our current leader, Bill Craft can not be caught.  It looks like Bill will win both the Standard and Upset pool this year.  As I said, everything is unofficial – but congratulations go out to Bill for his amazing job of picking this very unusual tournament.  There is still some variation in the standings depending on who wins, but the top belongs to Bill.

The Second Chance Pool has more people who still have a chance to win (unofficially).

• Fla Atlantic beats Miami – Brent Peterson
• Fla Atlantic beats UConn – Brent Peterson and Kathleen Godwin
• Miami beats Fla Atlantic – Bruce Grosvenor and Troy Cole
• Miami beats SD State – Bruce Grosvenor, Troy Cole and Patrick Perkins
• SD State beats Miami – Patrick Perkins and Troy Cole
• SD State beats UConn – Kathleen Godwin
• UConn beats Fla Atlantic – Jeff Carpenter, Rich Napolitano, Patti Carini and Kathleen Godwin
• UConn beats SD State – Jeff Carpenter, Rich Napolitano, Patti Carini and Kathleen Godwin

All 8 scenario pages are in the links along the left side of the blog.  Although you can probably guess that your picks are done if you didn’t at least have UConn or Miami going to the Championship game, or if you were not already in the top 10.  I feel bad for everyone not mentioned above – as a person who is used to picking Purdue and watching them lose to a double digit seed, I can sympathize with those of you who know that you can not improve in the standings of the pool.

Good luck to all of you who still have a chance to win a prize, and for the rest of you, just enjoy the madness.  So many rare possibilities could happen by Monday!!!  We could see a non-power conference win the championship (San Diego State or Florida Atlantic).  We could see a team that did not win a conference regular season or tournament take the title (Connecticut).  We could see a 5 seed win the tournament for the first time (Miami or San Diego State).  We could have the lowest ever seed win the tournament (Florida Atlantic at 9).  There might not be a lot of excitement as far as the pool is concerned – but no matter what happens over the weekend, we will certainly be watching something historic happen.  Enjoy the games!!!