In prior iterations of this tournament, I've done a post for every single day. I'm... not going to do that this round. It required a lot of pre-planning and randomizing, and that's not very efficient for running this.
So this time what I will be doing is roughly every three days I'll update with a round of game results. The idea being if this were taking place in reality, each group would play a round once during a three day stretch. Some teams might get rusty and get a full week off, but this should make the load reasonable for all 88 teams. It would also allow for, if this were happening in reality, the logistics of a venue like TD Garden in Boston to run effectively nonstop without overloading folks (though in reality, some of those Celtics teams might do like they historically did and play some games in Hartford or something).
Despite the sheer volume (this stage is going to have 880 total games) I will link box scores from each game on here (hopefully these will stay for the long term, though I am backing up all boxes just in case). Standings, schedules, and scores for the tournament can be found here. All simulations are provided by WhatIfSports.com.
Without further ado... let's get to it!
