It’s always bittersweet on Sunday night. The best four-day stretch of sports is over. The excitement leading up to filling out the brackets, the tip-off of the Thursday games, trying to locate TruTV, it’s all behind us now.
With that, the first and second rounds are over. After 48 games, 2-year veteran Diego Carillo sits atop of the leaderboard by half a point. Carillo went 13 of 16 but also picked 8 of 11 upsets to go into the Sweet 16 games in first.
The leaderboard is very tight with the top ten just 3.5 points from each other.
In second was rookie Aaron Ryan, who is a half point behind Carillo followed by 12-year veteran Gregory Spiegel at a full point back.
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The first two rounds saw a total of 11 upsets and the best anyone could do was 9 of 11, by 12-year veteran Justin Carruthers who is currently in fourth place. 10 of 13. 5-year veteran Jill Kontz and 10-year veteran Lois Kramer both lead the way in total upset picks.
The biggest jump in the standings went to rookie Sarah Morris who went from 428th place to 123rd after a 13 of 16 outing during the Saturday and Sunday games.
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In First Family, The Miller family jumped to a commanding 5 point lead in the 7-9 division. While the Gangel family moved to first in the 4-6 division.
In couple up, the power couple of Dan and Tammy Miller took the lead over another long time pool couple in Randy and JoAnn Craven.
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In our Survivor Pool, we started the day with 26 people and just loss one… Ted Kalthoff. After taking huge risks, it finally backfired with the St. Mary’s loss.
Good luck on your picks and remember, past Survivor picks can always be found on the front page.
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And now is a good time for the release of the OVERTIME Brackets!
This is a $2 pool where the brackets reset with the Sweet 16 games. Everybody who enters starts back over at zero points and your job is to pick all 16 games left in the tournament. Sound easy? Enter today!
Brackets are due before tipoff of the Thursday games which is 6 p.m. on March 27.
To be eligible to enter, you must be up to date on payment for the main entry.