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Sports Update: Poleyeffs!!

NCSY Kollel August 6, 2017

The hockey regular season has come to an end, and the basketball play-in games have all heard their final whistles, leaving us with two full Poleyeff brackets to be predicted and played.

The Poleyeffs (named for our fearless Commissioner, Tzvika Poleyeff) officially began today with a play-in round for basketball, where the 11th through 22nd seeds battled for the final six spots in the Sweet 16 bracket.  These games proved to be thrilling, with four lower seeds taking their games and four out of five games being decided by five points or less.

The two higher seeds to win were Masin Men (12) and Bak in the Hud (16), who beat Glueck Beis Medrash (21) and Abi Trippin’ (17), respectively, to lock in the 11th and 12th seeds in the main bracket.  The remaining seeds, in order, went to The Sturminator (18), who took care of Hirschey Rols (15); Hod for 1 (19), who beat Glanz N’ Roses (14) by the largest margin of victory of the day; Kroo-nick Polo (20), who edged out Early Morning Kram (13) by one point; and Stir-Fry (22), who pulled off the biggest upset of the day over Lev Tov (11).

The hockey standings have been finalized and the top four seeds have all been awarded byes, with the remaining eight teams playing for seeds five through eight tomorrow.

Meanwhile, the NIT tournament (for those teams who missed the basketball playoffs) was in full swing today with a full first round that included upsets left and right.  The top seed, Franks and Burgs (23) just barely beat The Gibber (38) to set up a second round matchup with Send Malove (31), the winner of a 74-45 blowout over The Richter Scale (30).  Shap for Gold (26) and No, it’s Joe (27) took care of their lower-seeded opponents, The SedaGhatFather: Part 4 (35) and The Gold Kup (34), respectively, and will play each other in the second round.  Another second round matchup will contain two low seeds: Fine SonSchein (33), who upset Ry-Bends (28), and Soc BBag (36), who upset Stein Removers (25).  The final second round matchup will include Green Veghs and Hain (24), after a handy defeat of the Lehman Brothers (37), and Will to Win (32), after a nice 12-point victory over Mashiach Ain’t Far (29).

Tomorrow promises to be even more exciting, with hockey play-in games, the main bracket of the basketball Poleyeffs, and the NIT second round!