It’s called March Madness for a reason. See Exhibit A – Purdue and Arkansas-Little Rock. The Boilermakers held a 14-point lead with less than 5 minutes to go. Time for the 12-seed Trojans (yes, I had to Google Arkansas-Little Rock’s mascot name) to start the buses. Even advanced analytics was prepared to call this game.

PUR was 99.7% to win at one point. 99.7%.

— FanDuel Research (@FanDuelResearch) March 17, 2016

But like Lloyd Christmas famously stated …

The Trojans battled back to take the Boilermakers to not one but two overtimes capping off an improbable comeback.

Need another example. Well see Exhibit B. The 12-seed Yale Bulldogs won their first tournament game in school history. It’s good to see something happen for these underdog Yale kids. I mean seriously nothing ever goes their way, right?

With Yale advancing, they will now square off against Duke. Yep. The internet wins.

Can’t wait for Yale vs. Duke on Saturday… pic.twitter.com/A85yBGOyPm

— Matt Glenesk (@MattGlenesk) March 17, 2016

Should Duke-Yale end in a tie, following will decide winner
1. BMW sprint to nearest J Crew
2. Windsor knot race
3. Sudden death chess match

— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) March 17, 2016

Only by going up against Grayson Allen could a Yalie named “Makai” become the protagonist.

— Matt Norlander (@MattNorlander) March 17, 2016

Yale will meet Duke in Providence, which is the whitest thing I've ever typed.

— Michael Jenkins (@JenksDC) March 17, 2016

Still not convinced? Leave it to the 11-seed (and First Four winner) Shockers then to sho … stun the Arizona Wildcats (and Lisa Burns 😥 – see below ) on Thursday night. It was a bad night for Sean Miller on two fronts: first his team was upset in the first round and second …

Holy sweat! Internet goes crazy after Arizona's coach sweat through his shirt #MarchMadness! https://t.co/2vqhdVjNRf pic.twitter.com/0iM8fDfkUG

— Sarah Jindra (@SarahJindra) March 18, 2016

What’s the saying? Never let them see you sweat? At least he’ll probably get an endorsement deal out of it.

The last example of the day. Exhibit D the 11-seed Gonzaga Bulldogs made easy work of the Big East tournament champs Seton Hall Pirates. However the Bulldogs win isn’t as shocking considering their pedigree.

Let’s see what day two has on tap for more upsets.

As for our pool, we currently have 131 entries. I must receive payment by end of day on March 23rd so get those payments (or at least arrangements) in ASAP.

Before I present a quick breakdown of predicted champions a couple facts:

• 13 different schools selected
• 1 entry has had their champion eliminated (Arizona – Lisa Burns)

Team	Total	Percent
Kansas	31	23.7%
Michigan St.	30	22.9%
North Carolina	29	22.1%
Kentucky	11	8.4%
Oklahoma	7	5.3%
Virginia	6	4.6%
Oregon	5	3.8%
West Virginia	4	3.1%
Xavier	3	2.3%
Cincinnati	2	1.5%
Arizona	1	0.8%
Duke	1	0.8%
Miami	1	0.8%