Illinois Basketball: Writing Illini bracket challenge update after round one

Round one is in the books for the 2017 NCAA tournament and the leaderboard for the Writing Illini bracket challenge had a shake-up.

There is now a two-way tie for first in the challenge between Sully5 and hireCoachK. They are each sitting with 280 points with only four missed games in the entire first round.

Sully5 had a tough blow with No. 11 USC taking down No. 6 SMU yesterday. This not only gave him another loss but it also knocked out a Sweet 16 team as well. Besides for that small blunder, he is sitting well in the challenge.

HireCoachK had a similar bracket to Sully5 with his only blunder a Sweet 16 loss with SMU. He also decided to go a little tricky this year with No. 13 ETSU beating…