The CBCC Sweet Sixteen has Contracted to the Elite Eight...and We'll have a Final Four by the End of the Weekend
By: Boda (2026-03-28)
After sixteen games Thursday and Friday, we have narrowed the field of contenders in this years College Basketball Confidence Contest. Mack Morris of new Braunfels TX still leads the contest. However, his lead has dropped to a mere 3 points over Doug Schneider of Talbott, TN. Four people are within 20 points of the lead, 6 people within 50 points and 16 people are within 100 points. There were a few tense games in the Sweet Sixteen, including #9 seed Iowa wrecking most everyone's bracket with a last minute win over an undermanned Nebraska team. Purdue's literal last second tip-in beat Texas, leaving Iowa as the lowest seeded team left in the torunament. UConn and Duke both outlasted Michigan State and St. Johns respectively in typical rock fight fashion. And we also had some requisite blowouts, although most of those were tight at least through the first half. Arizona, Michigan, Illinois, and Tennessee all won by double digits with Tennessee and Illinois taking down higher seeds.
In the Dirty-Dawg Redemption contest we had nobody with a "perfect' bracket after the first round/sweet sixteen round. That is nobody had a 9 or greater confidence level on all of the now "Elite-Eight". However, we do have a six way tie for first place... all in unique ways thanks to Iowa and Tennessee pulling upsets. We had several people get six of the Elite-Eight survivors correct. We also have 12 people within 10 points of the lead, and 31 people within 30 points of the lead. Our leaders include Don Baker, Mark Avery, Cyndi Pulis, Eric Adams, Hank Bauer, and Scott Carpenter. And yes, Mack Morris is in 15th place, 15 points out of the lead. :-).
Good luck to everyone during the weekend games and we'll have a standings update after The Final Four is set Sunday evening.