Took a while, but Syracuse finally ran out of juice.  And it knocked Larzby off the top for the first time falling to a tie for 4th and now can’ finish better than 4th.  Bigtenfan and Nwspring 1 are now co-leaders.  Biggest Luther will try to become only our 2nd ever 2-time champion.  Only 10 can win it all and 39 are still alive.

And my wife (SpAva) is mad at me because I said I now have to root for her teams, and with Syracuse’s loss, she is out of the running while my The Fabone in 3D is still alive for 5th.

Louisville ended the game on an 18-3 run to shock Florida and advance to the Final Four.  Rick Pitino outcoached former player Billy Donovan after earning an inadvertent technical that led to Florida being up by 11.  Seemed like Pitino was yelling his player and the ref thought he was yelling at him giving him a technical (resulting in two extra free throws).  Well, 7 picked Louisville (5 picked Florida including now eliminated Gator Glory).  51 are still alive and 11 can win 1st.

Somewhat more importantly, the Big East picked up its 13th win for the Bonus competition.

Favorites had to hold on but all higher seeds won.  Just 12 17 can win it all and 54 are still alive.  If you want to know YOUR individual possibilities, post a comment here or on Facebook.  An example, here is my 11 (out of 128) possible winning outcomes (The Fabone in 3D).

The Big East went 0-2 in the final two games while Ohio St. and Florida advance, keeping Gator Glory happy and alive.  Larzby is in first by 5 points.  Just 67 can win money (top 6 spots).  Two of the top 5 entries lost Michigan St as their champ.  Three went 3-1 for the day.

Sort of a reverse first half, as Syracuse advances but Izzo’s Spartans don’t, becoming the first #1 seed to fall.  Larzby opens up a 5-point lead with his Louisville pick.  He’ll need the cushion as he had Duke and Missouri in his Final Four.

So thanks to Apple, I had to manually enter several brackets because of Mac issues.  Doing this after only a few hours sleep every day something was bound to slip.  So there is a 134th entry as pictured, turned in on time and even better, paid for (both her husband and her mentioned there were two entries but it didn’t register with me).  So we now have 134 entries.  Fortunately, no one got eliminated due to this, so 101 are still alive to win money though I bet some of you wanted to be put out of your misery.  The issue was the two nicknames she used were “Buckeye23” and “TheBuckeye23” which with tired eyes looked the same (and the fact she never had entered twice before).  But at least it’ been corrected.  Actually, I still have one more run to the P.O. Box (mainly to collect checks) so there is still a very minute chance someone actually mailed in their entry (postmarked Thursday AM or earlier).  Haven’t had one of those in ages.  So standings will be updated later today for 134 entries.