A 40-Degree Day of Basketball: The NCAA Tournament Squares Pool

To quote the philosopher Stringer Bell, yesterday was "like a 40-degree day. Ain't nobody got nothing to say about a 40-degree day. Fifty? Bring a smile to your face. Sixty? Shit, they is damn near barbecuing on that motherfu&$er. Go down to 20, they get their bitch on. Get their blood complaining. But forty? Nobody give a fu&k about 40."

Yesterday, I watched some of a lot of games. Went to dinner and missed a few games. Saw the really important stuff like the end of the Kentucky-Santa Clara game and gladly didn't see more than a couple of minutes of the Florida-Prairie View game. Well, I did see Olivier Rioux enter the game in garbage time for Florida and record 2 points, 2 rebounds and an assist. I still can't understand that situation. He is 7'9" and cannot get on the floor! Friends have told me that my obsession with him is unnatural, and I get it. But as I wrote last year, this has to be considered the most incredible story in sports. I still believe that. 

But I digress. The point I was trying to make is that yesterday was a 40-degree day. When everything was done late last night all of the favorites advanced, save a couple of 9 seeds beating 8 seeds. 

Chalky ball with some standout performances. Most notable to me was Tarris Reed from UConn. 31 points and 27 rebounds last night against Furman, and UConn needed every bit of it. Reed outrebounded the Furman team and it is the first 30/25 in the NCAA tournament since Elvin Hayes did it 58 years ago. Just a dominant performance.

As for the squares pool, the Day 2 results are below. This wraps up Round 1 meaning that games are now worth 50 points.

On to Round 3. Good luck everyone!

--Your Tournament Host