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MM Final 4 Picks

by @TheCommish 🏀  MM Free ⚡

Friends in Madness,

If UConn continues its slaughterhouse ways, @jameschodgins will be our second annual Dance Survivor champion. If Miami keeps the upset train rolling, @dpnc23 will hoist the Survivor title.

And while surviving the Final Four is an absurdly impressive accomplishment, the fact that no remaining survivors will have a pick available for the title game means that - yet again - nobody will survive the full March Madness Survivor gauntlet.

You'll have to join us again next year to see if someone can finally summit Mount Survival and etch their name alongside SZN's most legendary competitors.

 

ELITE 8 PICKS

 

In our Pick'em, it's a TIGHT race down the stretch. Did our leaders differ in their picks? Let's take a look:

  • @randipoli (46 wins): SDSU, Miami
  • @AdamAnt (45 wins): SDSU, UConn
  • @Rthecity (45 wins): FAU, Miami
  • @Hoopcoach (45 wins): FAU, UConn

JUICY.

Can you get better than that? NONE of our top four have the same two picks. There are four possible combinations of winners, and they each took one of those four combinations.

Our overall picking favored UConn 75%/25% over Miami, and SDSU 56%/44% over FAU.

Let the games begin.

 

BRACKET RECAP, ONCE AGAIN

In this week's update email, I laid out who will win our Bracket pools in each title game scenario. Here it is again.

And if you're not gonna win but are in the running to cash, you can see full "potential score" standings here.

THE BIG MM BRACKET:

  • Current leader: @bdykes5 (71 points)
  • Champ if UConn wins title OR SDSU beats UConn OR FAU beats UConn: @jollytime16
  • Champ if Miami wins title: @Animboylambo
  • Champ if it's SDSU over Miami OR FAU over Miami: @bdykes5 hangs on

BRACKET #2:

  • Current leader: @stdunnigan (68 points)
  • Champ if UConn wins title: @rmm135
  • Champ if Miami wins title: @randipoli
  • Champ if SDSU beats MIA for the title: @joedad6452
  • Champ if FAU wins the title, or it's SDSU over UConn: @stdunnigan hangs on

BRACKET #3

  • Current leader: @Mcheavens13 (64 points)
  • Champ if UConn wins title: @Leithal
  • Champ if Miami wins title OR it's SDSU over Miami OR it's FAU over Miami: @randipoli
  • Champ if it's SDSU over UConn: @Kimbos_Krushers_
  • Champ if it's FAU over UConn: @Fojasj01

Note that, in some of the above scenarios, our champ would have just 69 or 70 points. Commish always wants to avoid hyperbole, but he's pretty confident that we'd NEVER see a SZN bracket champ again with that low of a score.

 

PICK COMMENTS


@AdamAnt (MM Round-by-Round Pick'em): "In bizarro world, you pick opposite."
Commish says: Says the guy currently tied for second place. He's on to something!!

 

@Babe91E (Survivor: FAU): "No decision to be made...going with my last available…and hope they get crushed! I will watch it in person… Go AZTECS!!!"
Commish says: One of the best Hedge of Happiness displays in SZN history!!

 

@mpugel19 (MM Round-by-Round Pick'em): "Why not FAU?"
Commish says: Realllllly wished I had thought this while banging the future bet submit button several weeks ago

 

@kbanaian (MM Round-by-Round Pick'em): "Oh why the hell not? Here's the thing. If the tournament committee names a team you never heard of as a 9-seed, they are trying to tell you something. They are telling you that team looked really good on paper and in statistics, and they put them in the 8-9 game because they're going to kill ratings. I hate the NCAA so much I really hope the skunk gets from the garden party to the wedding."
Commish says: Do we open a 2024 March Madness competition for "best NCAA futility conspiracy theory" or...

 

@wingnut79 (MM Round-by-Round Pick'em): "Time for my comeback I’m only 20 off the pace!"
Commish says: I BELIEVE IN YOU

 

@Moondogs (MM Round-by-Round Pick'em): "I did pick FAU to make the Elite 8, but that's about all I got right this year. FAU is my ride or die from here on in! Let's Go.....um...hold on a sec....Who? HOO!!!!! Let's Go Owls!!!!!"
Commish says: That makes you more like Miss Cleo than 99.9% of us. (Is that a good thing?) YES IT'S A GREAT THING FORGET THE WHOLE JAIL AND FRAUD STUFF.

 

@RPoli (MM Round-by-Round Pick'em): "Opposite again for the wife. Come on honey! I will not mush you!"
Commish says: So at this point are we full superstition mode? Are you feeling that your picks give your wife the necessary juju on her picks to help them to victory? How deep are we in the superstition?!

 

@BigFurryWookiee (MM Round-by-Round Pick'em): "This Final Four is crazier than my ex"
Commish says: But can you tell us more about ex-Wookiee?

 

@JJnosepicker (MM Round-by-Round Pick'em): "Forget voter fraud. I think DeSantis rigged the tournament!!"
Commish says: This is a good point. How is DeSantis not taking personal credit for two Florida teams in the Final Four? (Because he's rage tweeting at Disney execs, who are smarter than he is.)

 

@jrcondon (MM Round-by-Round Pick'em): "Is it still chalk if the highest seed is 4?!?!"
Commish says: YES, CONDON.

 

@edudeus (MM Round-by-Round Pick'em): "Eweeu Conn"
Commish says: Annnnd it's time to end the email.

 

Yours in Hooptopia,
The Commish

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