First Round Picks
Published by Jeremy on Thursday, March 15, 2007 at 7:06 PMThis report is getting posted after I just walked thru the sportsbook at Caesar's in Vegas and it is buzzing with VCU just tying Duke before the half. After spending a morning trying to figure out the location of Oral Roberts (Oklahoma), Old Dominion (Virginia), and Winthrop (South Carolina), I've put together a sheet of everyone's first round picks: 1st Round Picks.
Some interesting stats:
(1) With 11 contestants and 32 first round games there were a total of 352 picks made, of those 24% were upset picks.
(2) The 7 seed vs. the 10 seed match-ups have produced the most amount of upset selections with 29% of the total upset picks. The 8/9 match-ups have the second most upset picks with 24%.
(3) The most upsets in the first round were picked by Clare, the least by Beth.
(4) This tournament features two Blue Devil teams (Central Conn. and Duke), two Bruin teams (Belmont and UCLA), 3 Golden Eagle teams (Oral Roberts, Marquette, Boston College minus the Golden), 3 Bulldog teams (Butler, Gonzaga, Georgetown), and 4 Wildcat teams (Weber State, Davidson, Villanova, Arizona).
That's all for now, tonight we'll put up some results and rankings.