March Madness First Round Recap

You'd think this would be my year. Three 12th seeds won, there is a region in which the 9/10/11/12/13 seeds all won, and it seems everyone is beating the chalkboard bracket. Well, everyone except for me. Those who know me well know I prefer that upsets and chaos rule the tourney, but after last year's all #1 Final Four I guess it made me a bit conservative. (It doesn't help when five of my picks had chances at the buzzer to win and missed.) At least I'm beating the president of The United States of America...

Anyways, it's early and there are lots of games to be played, but here are the current standings after the round of 64:

1) Beyer: 280
2) Kody: 260
T-3) Armbrecht: 250
T-3) Kassel: 250
T-3) Deni: 250
6) Alberty: 240
T-7) Fischer: 230
T-7) Krull: 230
T-7) Slik Rick: 230
T-7) JWill: 230
T-7) Theo: 230
12) Hertel: 220
13) Kelly: 200

A few facts from the first round:

-Some home team bias was evident as 10 picked USC and 7 picked Northern Iowa.
-Other biases served beneficial as the Big XII went 6-0.
-Beyer correctly picked the first 25 games.
-The only one to predict the biggest upset (Cleveland St. over Wake Forest) was Krull.
-Krull and Kelly are the only brackets to have two of their Elite Eight eliminated.
-Seth dodged the biggest bullet when Marquette (which he has in the final) squeaked by Utah St. 58-57.