I m sure some of you have filled out your brackets… lets here the upsets and winners
I am in an elimination pool with Butler (-3.5) in round 1.
Also in a couple of brackets with Miami & Florida winning it all
This year its truly a crapshoot. Anybody can win.
I shall do no such thing. When the greatest state in the US is snubbed by the NCAA, then I shall no longer watch the tournament. (Well, that plus I’ve got work and studying to do–I’d rather watch the Spurs than college.)
I think I’m the only person out there who doesn’t care at all about this tournament, or college sports in general. But I went to a D3 school to maybe that’s it. I truly couldn’t care less.
This is the only college tournament I follow because of its structure.
College football with its million fiesta tostitos doritos bowls is impossible to follow and way too subjective. Bball the selection is subjective but after that its winner takes all. No redos, no best of series, etc… you outscore your opponent you move on.
Remind me why we didn’t do an AF pool?
No you’re not.
I went 15/16 yesterday but the one game I lost was Mizzou. That hurts since I had them going to the Elite 8. Still kicking ass though.
You bet on Harvard?
I have a soft spot for smart guys trying to play basketball.
So your brackets got the rusty saw treatment.
My brackets got effed on the first day
8-8 in one and 9-7 in the other where I had N Mexico in the championship game against Florida… effing Harvard.
Only saving grace was that I got Oregon and California upsets correct and almost had a third with Davidson.
Butler game was crazy as well… but they pulled it off at the end so moving onto round 2 in my elimination pool. Marquette should be an easy win
My brackets bombed… 175th and 185th out of 188 overall
Mine busted. I had Georgetown going to the Final Four. I have Michigan St winning it all, so there’s an outside chance I may still place in the money.
I wonder how many people would follow the tourney if there weren’t bracket pools.
Probably a lot. For some reason intensely following college sports teams from schools that people didn’t go to themselves is part of the American month of March. Still don’t get it and probably never will. Come May 95% of the people won’t give a sh*t about any of it and the big plays will be reduced to youtube clips.
To be honest I had a tough time remembering last year’s winner…
Gambling makes everything fun
There are 398 brakets in the pool I’m in. There’s a cool function on the website that gives each player their highest possible final position and who they need to root for to get there. I can still get first and my best shot is with the following in the Elite 8:
Michigan St, Florida GC, Ohio St, Indiana, Louisville, Wichita St, Kansas, and Marquette. Though there are 540 other possible combinations that would still work. This site is pretty cool.
Go Florida GC and Wichita St!
Fck Florida!
Anyone doing it this year?
I filled one out because our office set up a bracket and there are prizes. No clue what I was doing to choose.