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Nothing standing between the Great 8 Winner, and Div II....

Talk an interesting development! This gives you Yakoska a major opportunity! The Great 8 winner will likely go though but you never know these things.

Injury to a starter makes beating Illini even less likely, plus they hold a 7-3 edge in head to head matchups. But it's interesting.

Here were the preseason rankings
1. SM Lizards
2. West Side Tigers
3. Green Gremlins
4. Pittsburgh Pressure
5. Beachlife
6. Jungle Fever
7. Illiniwek
8. Monkeykid
9. Boom is Art
10. Galloping Sloths
11. Righteous Rebellion
12. Lion Rebels
13. Red Bull Lakers
14. Boilers25
15. Souljas
16. Retired

Power Rankings
The end of the season’s rankings are here, denoted next to the teams are the number of spots they went up or down from the preseason rankings which have been posted. Also a percentage next to the playoff teams are the estimated odds they win the league.
1. Pittsburgh Pressure +3 36.5% At the beginning of the season, everyone doubted me after Steinwender was sold off, I proved you all wrong, and despite a lose to SM in the final week, we are still #1
2. Jungle Fever +4 29.7% another team who was doubted by most, (not by me) the Fever have shown great results all season and very well walk away with a title, if they get passed me.
3. Green Gremlins 0 0% a preseason favorite has not disappointed and finished where they started, but now they bot?!
4. SM Lizards -3 19.8% in my eyes, THE preseason favorite, started out rough falling all the way to 11, but rebounded up to 4 to finished. With wins over Pittsburgh and Jungle Fever in the process! They are scary and pose a major threat in the postseason.
5. Galloping Sloths +5 12% I admit I was off on the sloths. The sloths continued to contend despite selling Stars throughout the season. Excellent skill by the manager
6. Boom is Art +3 .2%, A good season for Boom is Art, making the playoffs despi the loss to Pittsburgh. Unfortunately for them their reward is a rematch in Pittsburgh
7. Beachlife -2, In the Great 8 there were 5 worthy playoff teams, someone had to be left out, in this case it was Beachlife. Expectations were high and they were not meet.
8. Retired +8 2% the team projected to finish dead last punched well above their weight. With 10 wins they made the playoffs, A contender for surprise of the season.
9. Illiniwek -2 0% a good season for Illiniwek, although it ends in the first round due a team sell off.
10. Soulja’s +5, A better season than I expected for them, I don’t know what Soulja’s is actually thinking, A relegation series is on against Monkeykid, one Soulja’s should be favored in
11. West Side Tigers -9, just missing the playoffs after losing a de facto playoff game at Retired, Projected at #2 to start the season, I would say they under performed
12. Boilers25 +2, The boilers25 started boiling hot (pun intended), but cooled rapidly, and have a relegation series battle to prepare for, will be tough without Ganchev
13. Monkeykid -5, Monkeykid like SM started out slow, but unlike them, they never pulled it together, they will play Soulja next
14. Lion Rebels -2, demotion is confirmed for the Rebels, they just never got enough talent around Armstead
15. Redbull Lakers -2, Won a few games as expected, but really didn’t do much, although no one expected them to.
16. Righteous Rebellion -5, A sell off in the end, they will be able to have a last stand against Beachlife

Well if there's a time to "finally pull it together", this Relegation Series would be it. Let's see how it goes.

Caught Illini between selling and restocking... Lucky.

Just.... wow

Yeah, lucky doesn't cover half of my win... after Alba misses the buzzerbeater in regular time... we go down by 5 fast in OT... then with time running out, Zak hits a 3 to tie, with enough time for Retired to score... but then Dolic (I think it was, one of my non-fouled out big men) somehow comes up with a steal, and after a set up pass, the go ahead, buzzerbeater dunk by Nurek. Wild.