Friday Lunch Talk

Akaoni - Best (but not really)

Akaoni is at it again, 8-1 for the week bringing home the bacon, but can he win any conferences? His best teams (which are really damn good) are NOT in first place in their conferences, Texas is 2 games back from Kansas, Syracuse is a half game back from Villanova... How can he keep winning game after game and still not be winning conferences? Lucky bastard I say.

The REALLY exciting race

As I update the leaderboard every day, the "race" that has been fascinating me the most is the race for SECOND PLACE. Boaris, Gunz, and until recently Jaybird have been jockeying back and forth between 2nd and 4th, with every day one leaping the other. Jaybird finally tanked two weeks ago and is struggling this week, but Gunz and Boaris are neck and neck and keeping pace just 20 or so points behind Akaoni.

Wednesday Gunz went 3-2 for 5 points to pull ahead of Boaris (2-2 for 4 pts). Last night Boaris nailed 5 points (3-0) tying up Gunz (2-0 for 4 pts). On Saturday they have two head to head games against each other:

• Miss St (Gunz) vs. Florida (Boaris) in the SEC. Both teams are 16-6 with 3 losses a piece in conference.
  
• BYU (Boaris) vs. UNLV (Gunz) in the Mountain West. UNLV at 18-4 has managed to stay just a game behind red hot BYU (22-2), and BYU won the last meeting, but this one is in Vegas.
  

PAC 10

We now have a four way tie for first place - at 6-4! Including Arizona (Turtle), UCLA (Gunz), California (Babs) and Arizona St (Illinois Guy). Seriously, WTF? Some are suggesting that the Pac 10 could be a single bid conference this year. I'm guessing two bids - who ever wins the tournament, and who ever finishes with the best conference record.

CONFERENCES

If it were all over today, who would be winning the conferences?

1. The CEO (37 pts) - Big 10, Big West, MEAC, MVC, OVC, Summit,
   
2. Boaris (31 pts) - Big 12, MAAC, MWC, WCC(tie), WAC(tie),
   
3. Babblemur (26 pts) - SEC(tie), Pac 10(tie), Atl Sun, Horizon,
   
4. Gunz (20 pts) - ACC, Pac 10(tie), Colonial
5. NotaTurtle (19 pts) - Pac 10(tie), CUSA(tie), WCC(tie)
6. Phunmunki (13 pts) Big East, Atl 10,
   
7. Jaybird (13 pts) - SEC(tie), Colonial(tie)
8. Some Guy in Illinois (13 pts) - Pac 10(tie), CUSA(tie)
9. Akaoni (12 pts) - Big South, SoCon
10. Jutdog (12 pts) - Ivy, WAC(tie)

FYI - if the CEO had those 37 points now he would be in second place.

NINETY SIX

Lastly, what do you think about a 96 Team Tournament???