Closest to the Pin — St. Mary’s
Window Opening: Saturday, March 20, 8:00 AM The window is now open to pick the game final score as #2 seeded Villanova takes on #10 seeded St. Mary’s today at 1:05 PM EDT in the Dunkin Donuts Center. The Vegas odds-makers are favoring Nova (-5.0) with the over / under set at 154 (implying a score of 80-75).
So far this season, Villanova (25-7, #15 RPI) has scored an average of 82.2 points while holding their opponents to 72.8. St. Mary’s (27-5, #34 RPI) has scored an average of 79.5 points while holding their opponents to 66.2. St Mary’s, winners of six straight games (the last two over Gonzaga and Richmond) has an impressive record of 4-3 against Top 50 RPI Teams. Here’s their full body of work this season, sorted by their opponents’ RPI:
Closest to the Pin — Robert Morris
Window Opening: 6:30 AM (London): Sorry guys for the late post. The window is now open for readers to pick the final score in the NCAA opening round game against Robert Morris today at 12:30 PM. See Brian’s post “Clobbering the Colonels” for more information on Robert Morris. Go Cats!
Closest to the Pin — West Virginia
Update: Game Results: With the Cats losing another tough one, 66-68, we congratulate six VUHoops readers who took medals in this round. Gold Medal: Rick 19 (73-70), earning 5 points; Silver Medals: Barney Rubble ’87 (76-69) and NJ Super’Nova (75-70), earning 3 points each; Bronze Medals: Chad (77-70), LuvmyKatz (77-66), and Kait’08 (75-72), earning 1 point. Read more
Closest to the Pin Final Round — Cincinnati
Update: Game Results: With the Cats pulling out a tough road win at Cincinnati, 77-73, we congratulate five VUHoops readers who took medals in this final round. Gold Medals: cdtoffers (76-73) and Bill’77 (78-73), earning 5 points each; Silver Medals: Jim K (76-72) and NJSuper’Nova (78-72), earning 3 points each; Bronze Medal: EDM’09 (78-75), earning 1 point.
Contest Results: After 25 hard-fought rounds, Andy’06, who was shut out over the final five rounds, held on to win first place. Jim K, winning three medals in the final four rounds tied Pete, who also was shut out over the final five rounds, with 18 points. Under the contest rules, “in the event of a tie, the winner will be determined through tie breakers. The first tie breaker will be the number of times the contestants won medals over the course of the season, without regard to type.” Jim K won six medals vs. Pete’s five medals, taking second on the tie breaker. Pete takes third place. Select “read more” to view the 65 readers on our final leader board. Read more
Closest to the Pin Round 24 – Syracuse
Update: Game Results: While the Cats had a tough loss in Syracuse tonight, 77-95, at least four VUHoops readers took medals in this round. Gold Medal: cdtoffers (77-85), earning 5 points; Silver Medals: HoyaSaxa (77-82) and Jim89 (72-87), earning 3 points each; Bronze Medal: JIm k (80-84), earning 1 point. Select “read more” to view the 65 readers now on our leader board. Read more
Closest to the Pin Round 23 – South Florida
Update: Game Results: The Cat’s got back on the winning track with some great defense, winning 74-49. None of us were close to picking that score, but some of us were less wrong than others. We congratulate five VUH readers who took medals in this round. Gold Medal: Pena Power (73-64), earning 5 points; Silver Medals: Kittlesfan95 (80-63) and NJSuper’Nova (75-68), earning 3 points each; Bronze Medals: Alex’09 (80-65) and DJ (72-69), earning 1 point. Select “read more” to view the 65 readers now on our leader board. Read more
Closest to the Pin Round 22 – Pittsburgh
Update: Game Results: With the Cat’s disappointing 65-70 loss at Pittsburgh, we congratulate four VUH readers who took medals in this round. Gold Medals: JimK (73-70) and pttam7yanks (72-69), earning 5 points each; Silver Medal: Bill’77 (74-70), earning 3 points; Bronze Medal: Barney Rubble ‘87 (75-70, earning 1 point. Select “read more” to view the 64 readers now on our leader board. Read more
Closest to the Pin Round 21 – Connecticut
Update: Game Results: With the Cat’s disappointing 75-84 loss at Wachovia, we congratulate three VUH readers who took medals in this round. Gold Medal: Pretty Toney (79-83), earning 5 points; Silver Medal: Winston (76-75), earning 3 points; Bronze Medal: NovaCat’94 (86-84), earning 1 point. Select ”read more” to view the 64 readers now on our leader board. Read more
Closest to the Pin Round 20 – Providence
Update: Game Results: With the Cat’s solid 92-81 win at Wachovia, we congratulate seven VUH readers who took medals in this round. Gold Medals: NJ Super’Nova (91-81), earning 5 points; Silver Medals: Kmac (91-80) and Pete (92-79), earning 3 points each; Bronze Medals: Andy ‘06 (95-81), David (90-82), NovaCat94 (92-78), and Winston (91-83), earning 1 point each. Select ”read more” to view the 63 readers now on our leader board. Read more
Closest to the Pin Round 18 – Georgetown
UPDATE — Game Results: With the Georgetown handing Nova its first Big East loss 90-103, we congratulate three VUH readers who were the least wrong with their predictions. Gold Medal: Jim89 (93-88), earning 5 points; Silver Medal: NJ Super’Nova (87-86), earning 3 points; Bronze Medal: TK87 (88-81), earning 1 point. Select “read more” to see the names of the 59 readers now on our Leader Board after 18 rounds. Read more
