Final Four Challenge update: Gonzaga busts some brackets

On the eve of the Sweet Sixteen, every entry in the Daily Bee’s Final Four Challenge was unscathed. Everyone was in the running for the $100 prize. Things were looking up.

Two days later, Texas Tech stifled Gonzaga into playing one of its worst games of the season and broke plenty of Gonzaga fans’ hearts (and hearts of Gonzaga-adjacent fans — I shouldn’t be surprised that there are a lot of you up here) in the process. Gonzaga was in 15 of the 21 entries, tying Duke for the highest representation of any team.

Like the Final Four, four people have a shot with two of the four teams guessed correctly: Wendy Galante (Texas Tech, Virginia), Valia Hew (Texas Tech, Virginia), Brent Heiser (Virginia, Michigan State) and Chris Van Stone (Virginia, Michigan State).

All four contestants picked Virginia to make it to Minneapolis — although Van Stone is the only one who picked the Cavaliers to make the title game. For what it’s worth, he has the Spartans eking out a 71-69 win. Nobody picked Auburn, who despite being an SEC school, is the de-facto “Cinderella” as a 5-seed.