NCAA Bracket?
 

Dwellars?

pass, thanks anyhow.

I know even less about basketball than I do about football, and that's saying something.

wss

Are the brackets out?

Last year we had a March madness pool in our house, where everyone kicked in a dollar, and the winner got the $4 pot. whoo! Teaching the kids to gamble. Maybe next I should take them over to the District when they legalize pot and buy them doobies.

Dwellar parenting at its finest. Pete set up a bracket on espn for some meat world friends if anyone is desperate to create a bad habit.

What's a bracket? (Yes, I am ignorant - nevertheless ...)
I end up seeing snippets of quite a few March Madness games one way or another, and I do know the quarterfinals are on and semi-finals about to commence ... so, is it too late to set up what I presume is a prediction of how the last few rounds will go?

I'll pm you a link with group name and password. The bracket won't actually be filled until tomorrow. The various conference tournaments are what you've been seeing. I don't have any idea who is good this year, but this is a for fun bracket.

Just joined the group - thanks, Griff! I figure if the odds are that bad, I can just pick teams as I please and I'll have as good a chance of getting decent points as anybody. No gambling involved, but since the games are always on around our place it'll give me a little interest in the 'big dance'.

That's the way I look at it.

I know ZIP about any sports but I'm in a bracket at work and I entered the Billion Dollar one as well. All guesses.

The first time I ever did a bracket, I knew nothing. Zip. Nada. And going in to the final game, I was winning the entire office bracket worth about $500. But then my team lost the final game by one basket, and I got nothing.

And the other guy, after years of following the madness, charting the teams, spotting promising high school players, buying information sheets and 8x10 glossies with a paragraph on the back with the inside poop, wins by shit luck. :smack:

Heh ... doing all right so far :D

(Don't be a wet blanket now by telling me it's only the first round!)

You can't get to the later rounds without doing well in the first round.

And picking the upsets is the key. I got two of the upsets, but so far have 3 mistakes in the first round. My wife picked the Harvard upset. Good for her. I had been mocking her, saying that Harvard was a bunch of Mark Zuckerbergs, but she showed me.

I'm in trouble, I had UMass into the final 4.

Eek! Somehow, who knows how, I'm 97.5%. I'll take it; things are bound to change day by day. By the end of the weekend I'll have crashed in flames.

Aaand I have crashed before the weekend's done, 57.7%. How does Dayton beat Syracuse? How?

With malice and forethought.

Still better than me. I didn't know anything about this years teams and may know less now. :) Creighton is my last final four team.:sniff:

Half my final four teams are out.

Villanova is out. I still have 3 in the final four but that will almost certainly change, given the crazy upsets this weekend. Stanford beat Kansas?? Yikes.

Next year I'll print out the bracket, pin it to the wall, and throw darts at it to make my picks. Oh well - I'm actually not minding the fact that nothing but basketball is on, which was the point of doing this, and the web site keeps all the games updated practically to the minute. It's very weird how much energy goes into this.

Noooooo!!! Wichita State is out! :cry:

6 teams in the sweet 16.

24 out of 48 so far in the Quicken Loan bracket.

I'm in 3rd place so far in the bracket at work but I can't win
since I had Duke as the champs and they're out already.

Not bad for all guess work though. :D

Anyone doing NCAA brackets again this year?

GodDAMN, that is a HELL of a hot take there...

Ya only need two letters this year.

U and K.

:D

Prolly jinxed 'em, right there.

I think Wyoming might be my "favorite" team this year. I don't think they've been in the tournament in 20 years.

No. U and K sums it up. Go cats!

As long as it's U and K and not K and U.

In order to be successful at this, you want to pick the winning teams. As many as possible.

Wyoming is my sleeper pick. They just seem like the team that can do it. At least, I think they can beat UNI (who I think is overrated).

Ouch. Damn them Fargon Badgers! I hope an eagle poops on his car!:D

Oh, well...We had a good run.

Did I mention that my employer (a well-known university in the US) sent an email reminding us that betting on the tournament is illegal? Probably did it to discourage office pools, specifically.

I didn't get around to filling out a bracket. I would have had like 2 teams left by round of 16, not good, but I did expect the Badgers to win it all! (based on seeing them once)