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The Brown Bears lost the Ivy championship to the Yale Bulldogs by just one point on Sunday, ending their dream run in the conference championship and continuing their NCAA tournament drought.
Yale, down 60-54 with 22 seconds left, managed to score eight points before time ran out — including the game-winning shot at the buzzer — to beat Brown, 62-61. Being up by that much with so little time left typically means the game is in hand, but Brown let the game slip away in heartbreaking fashion.
Bez Mbeng got the rally start with an and-one play to cut the deficit to 60-57. After a Brown free throw, Mbeng found John Poulakidas for an open 3-pointer to cut the lead to one point with 14 seconds left. Brown had two chances at the line to extend its lead, but both free throws from Malachi Ndur missed the mark, leaving the door open for Matt Knowling to hit the buzzer-beating floater at the rim.
Yale, the No. 2 seed, did not expect to face Brown in the final, but that's the story of Brown's season. Through Feb. 16, Brown had a feeble 6-17 record and wasn't expected to seriously contend for anything. But the next day against Penn it started a seven-game winning streak that lasted through the end of the regular season and through the Ivy semifinal against Princeton.
Princeton, the No. 1 seed, is the team Yale expected to face. But Brown beat them 90-81 to make it to the championship. And Yale may have been secretly hoping to face Princeton, since it lost to Brown in overtime on March 9.
And just eight days later, Brown almost pulled off another upset of Yale. The Bears are not going dancing, but Yale needed a buzzer-beater to take them down. Maybe in a few days, after Yale likely gets demolished in the first round of the tournament, Brown can feel good about that.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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