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Monday, March 9, 2009

MAAC Pick Em standings


In case you haven't heard, top-seeded Siena will play second-seeded Niagara Monday at 9 in the MAAC tournament title game.

Thanks to a group of loyal readers, the blog has had a great weekend, with live coverage of every session and commentary from a lot of fans throughout the conference.

I've been pretty busy this weekend and done what I think is a pretty good amount of work. Saturday, I was at the Times Union Center for the Fairfield-Canisius women's game at 9:30 and didn't leave until after the Rider-Saint Peter's men's game, which ended at about 12:15 a.m.

One thing I have, unfortunately, neglected to do until now is post the MAAC Pick Em standings. We have 13 entries, which is slightly more than we got last year and, if nothing more, a healthy enough number that doing it again next year seems like a good idea.

Kudos to Fred Sakai, whose bracket is absolutely perfect heading into Championship Monday. Fred is the only contestant to have gotten everything right so far, and will become Pick Em champ in the most impressive of manners if Siena wins tonight.

Nice job also by Mike Vitale, whose only blemish so far was picking his home-town Iona Gaels to beat Marist in the play-in round. Unfortunately for Mike, since Fred has the same winner tonight and one more point, he's out of contention.

The other two contestens still in it are Tom Cleary and defending champion Keith Connors, who turned in identical brackets that, like Mike's, are perfect except for the Iona-Marist game. Tom and Keith both picked Niagara, so if the Eagles win, it'll come down to a tiebreaker.

Here are the full standings through three rounds, with each contestant's champion listed so we can see who has a chance to add more points tonight.

The scoring system, as it was last year, is one point per game for the play-in round, two for the quarterfinals, four for the semifinals, and eight for the championship.

1. Fred (18 points, Siena)
2. Mike (17, Siena)
2. Tom C (17, Niagara)
2. Keith (17, Niagara)
5. Antonio (16, Siena)
5. Scott (16, Niagara)
7. Chris (15, Niagara)
8. Eric (13, Siena)
9. Dan (12, Rider)
9. Tom D (12, Siena)
11. Felix (8, Rider)
12. Todd (7, Rider)
13. Ryan (4, Rider)

2 Comments:

Blogger freddieboomboom said...

1. Fred (18 points, Siena)

SWEET!

March 9, 2009 11:20 AM 
Anonymous Beagle said...

I suck

March 9, 2009 1:58 PM 

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