Call in the Elimination Round. Entering the Sweet 16, 155 Glimmers hung onto hope of winning the Glimm Memorial NCAA Tournament Pool. Eight games letter, that number is down to 25. The chances of the other 130 fell with likes of North Carolina, Michigan and Tennessee.
And that includes Glimm commissioner Josh Kleinbaum. After leading the Glimm for most of the last week, the Sweet 16 was devastating to Kleinbaum’s Tim Whatley bracket. He lost three of his Final Four teams and fell to 7th place, and his Glimm drought will continue.
Rising to first place is 2016 champ Kate Lord, whose Go To Hell Dook 5 bracket has 97 points. That bracket is the only in the top 10 to still have all Final Four teams still alive.
Lord is just ahead of Sean Ceglinsky (96.5 points), My Biased Purdue Bracket (Mike Perugini, 94), Fear the Turtle (Nelson Hsu, 93.5), It’s 5 p.m. Somewhere (defending champ Nina Lin, 93.5) and 3-0 (Kevin Benham, 93.5). But the Elimination Round even hit this top group of six: Ceglinsky, Hsu and Lin can all finish in the money, but they can’t win the whole thing.
The longest of long shots still alive? That’s Jeff Keating’s jkedit2, in 137th place. But if Auburn beats Duke in the championship game, Jeff has a chance.
Over in the kids bracket, Brooklyn Rados’ TheDodgerFans bracket moved into first place 11th overall), ahead of Audrey Rosenberg (36th overall), Eden Lazarus’ Eden’s Bracket (47th), Quentin Sweet’s Qball (78th) and Emili Miller’s Poop on a sticky (116th).
The Elite Eight begins tonight.
The Leaderboard (full standings here):
| Rk | Entry Name | Score | Upset Pts | Poss | Pick Pct. | Champion |
| — | The Results | 123.5 | 27.5 | 195.5 | 100.0% | |
| 1 | Go to Hell Dook 5 | 97.0 | 19.0 | 169.0 | 80.4% | Gonzaga |
| 2 | Sean Ceglinsky | 96.5 | 18.5 | 140.5 | 80.4% | Duke |
| 3 | My Biased Purdue Bracket | 94.0 | 12.0 | 160.5 | 82.1% | Purdue |
| 4 | 3-0 | 93.5 | 15.5 | 158.5 | 82.1% | Kentucky |
| 4 | Fear the Turtle | 93.5 | 18.5 | 145.5 | 82.1% | Duke |
| 4 | It’s 5 p.m. Somewhere | 93.5 | 13.5 | 157.5 | 83.9% | Gonzaga |
| 7 | Tim Whatley | 93.0 | 20.0 | 101.5 | 83.9% | |
| 8 | Jiffo Tres | 92.5 | 24.5 | 138.5 | 76.8% | MSU |
| 9 | Ottomatic #2 | 91.0 | 15.0 | 146.0 | 75.0% | Texas Tech |
| 10 | Dubois1 | 90.5 | 17.5 | 136.5 | 78.6% | MSU |