Of course, Brandon Miller’s Alibi is leading the Glimm.
Brandon Miller’s alibi — that he was just driving to his teammate, not accessorizing a murder, and it was just coincidence that the teammate’s gun was in the back seat of his car and that the teammate immediately used that gun to kill someone — is the reason Alabama is the #1 team in the country, and one of two #1 seeds still standing after the first week of the men’s NCAA tournament.
In Alabama, delivering the murder weapon to the scene of the crime, apparently, isn’t a crime. As his coach said, Brandon Miller is a good guy who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. So Miller, the best player on the country’s best team, did not miss a game. The team earned a top seed in the tournament, won its first two games, and is poised to challenge for an NCAA title.
Arun Gopal is unfazed. He not only is willing to ride the Tide to the top of Glimm’s standings, but he also named his bracket Brandon Miller’s Alibi. And after 48 games, that bracket is in first place in the Glimm.
Gopal picked 75% of the games right in the tourney’s first two rounds, and his 63.5 points leads Mike Kotowski’s eponymously named bracket by 3.5 points. Justin Guenley’s KU back to back bracket sits in third (58.5), followed by Jason Eckerling’s The wrath of Kwarta’s toilet after mexican (57) and Lauren Kimball’s LK1 (55.5).
Penny Otter’s ITS PEN PEN bracket has fallen to seventh, but the 9-year-old still leads the Glimm Kids Championship race, ahead of Grace Kern by one point.
In the women’s pool, Francesca Catalano nearly pulled off a historic feat with her Walter White bracket. Catalano picked 15 of the Sweet 16 correctly – her only miss coming in Duke’s overtime loss to Colorado.
That near-perfect round gives her 70 points and a commanding lead over second-place Jason Kaden’s Jiffo4 (62.5). Jeff Keating’s jkedit (62), Adam Kleinbaum’s ThrowingDarts (59) and Michael Rosenberg’s Michael Rosenberg (57.5) round out the top five.
In all, Catalano has picked 87.5% of the women’s games correctly.
The men’s tournament resumes on Thursday, and the women’s tournament resumes Friday. In the meantime, men’s standings are here, kids championship standings are here, and women’s standings are here.