NCAA Sweet 16: The biggest loser
Anyone can pick the tournament winner. But the biggest loser?
The biggest loser will lose to a team, who immediately loses to another team, who loses to another team…
Last week I picked Baylor to be the biggest loser in the men’s NCAA basketball tournament. Joel picked Villanova. (he should get a repick, Villanova won, twice, and is in the Sweet 16)
So, who’s left? These are the teams who lost to teams who lost:
East: Indiana, George Mason, Saint Joseph’s, South Alabama
South: Oregon, Oral Roberts, Kentucky, St. Mary’s
Midwest: Kent St, Vanderbilt, Southern Cal, UMBC
West: BYU, UCONN, Baylor, Belmont
My pick is still Baylor, but Belmont, UMBC, Kentucky and St. Joseph’s should be favored to be the furthest four from the final four.
It’s not too late to pick (especially since there are no prizes!)
JD2718 
If my reading is correct, it looks like it’s down to (6) USC, (7) Butler, (11) Kentucky, and (15) Belmont.
Who would have guessed that USC would be in the running for this? And from the looks of things, I think they may end up being the biggest loser. The sad thing is that I had (for some unknown reason) picked them to lose to Memphis next Monday.
Maybe I would have done better to reverse my entire bracket!
(6) USC, (10) South Alabama, (11) Kentucky, and (15) Belmont.
When things go nearly according to form, we would expect 10 – 13 seeds to be in the running.
And, with all the strangeness, all four 1 seeds? Wow.
Pending tonight’s results, on the women’s side we could have four 1-2 matchups… And UCONN is right there (up against rival Rutgers).
So it’s Belmont. Who’d have guessed?
I know, I feel bad for them considering they came so close to upsetting Duke.