Dayton’s win over Ole Miss mathematically eliminated Joe Hiegel of Greenfield, Wisconsin from the 6th annual Living Room Times NIT Pool, and now it’s Steve Ivey vs. Rick Boeckler for the pool championship.
If Rhode Island beats North Carolina in tonight’s second semifinal, Ivey, of Greensboro, NC, will win the pool. If the Tar Heels win, Boeckler, of Silver Spring, MD, will stay alive, and the pool will go down to the wire. In that case, Boeckler would win the pool if UNC wins Thursday’s title game, and Ivey would win if Dayton wins.
UPDATE: Overtime!
UPDATE 2: North Carolina wins (in controversial fashion), preventing an all-Atlantic-14 final, and the pool goes down to the wire!
Boeckler is Rebecca Loy’s uncle, and the champion of the 2003 and 2006 Living Room Times women’s NCAA pools. Ivey, a 2005 Kentucky grad, “stumbled on the blog a few years back looking for an online NIT pool to enter.” Every year since 2007, he has entered the Times NIT Pool — and only the NIT Pool — finishing seventeenth out of 93, ninth out of 62, and tenth out of 74, respectively.