March Madness

[Pete]

Anyone else watching the games and cursing over your brackets?
Anyone else participate in this annually?
Anyone else know what I'm talking about?

Anyways, I've been filling out my NCAA brackets online for the past couple of years. Usually my friends and I pool some money together, and whoever comes closest to winning, or wins, gets it all. This year has been a little crazy so far. Right now, Kentucky JUST squeaked by Princeton, and Morehead St beat Lousiville.

This year I have Kansas over Duke in the finals... because I ****ing hate Duke with a passion. I also remember two years ago when Binghamton (my school) was in it, and it was ridiculously exciting... even though we got blown out.

So, what do you all do for it?

[Rocky]

I remember when Kansas lost to UNI last year. UN ****ing I. I got heckled by friends that go there for months afterwards. So I bandwagoned onto the next team, GO ZAGS!

I am gay and didn't do a bracket this year. I normally do but I just forgot about it for some reason, lol.

[Pete]

Yeah, this year was a bitch, since you only had one day to get them done. The selection day was Sunday, and then they did those bullshit play-in games for the actual tournament on Tuesday. I was not a fan of that bs.

[Imposter]

I got my bracket up boys, and am watching the games. No outlandish cursing, I've only made one really bad call so far.

It is always a good time, never thought but next year we should do a TFF bracket group, might be a good itme.

[psychosyd]

Wow Pete, My school is IN the tournament and I still have a NY school winning it all.

Thats right, I have Syracuse winning it all, over Kansas. I have Duke going down to Uconn because Duke is overrated... I don't believe too much in strength of schedule, but they played very few ranked teams this year compared to Uconn... yet they got a 1 seed. Duke needs to lose.

So far aside from Louisville and Vanderbilt going down i've been good on my brackets. Thankfully I had Louisville losing in the sweet sixteen so no terrible terrible damage done yet... all of my elite 8 are still in and that makes me happy...

now BYU needs to pick up their game.

[Pete]

Haha James, I don't have BYU going very far due to your star getting kicked off the team for violating the honor code. I'm very torn about that btw. On one hand, he did violate the honor code, and should be punished. On the other, he was just banging his gf, which I'm sure several students have done, and REALLY isn't that bad. I just don't think he should've been kicked off the team.

[psychosyd]

pssh, our star is the Jimmer. Brandon Davies just was our only force under the basket because our other power forward got hurt early on (Chris Collinsworth).

It is true its an interesting reason to be suspended from the team. It really boils down to the fact BYU is a private religious school, which he represents. For a church that believes in the whole no premarital relations to have a starter on the basketball team violating it would certainly... not be representative.

It does suck though. I am really glad BYU has not crucified him and actually supports him in this.

As a student of BYU I always have them go one round further than they probably will out of respect, so I have then beating Florida to go to the elite eight. Anything else after that is Jimmer having more 50+ nights like he did against New Mexico in the Mountain West Conference Tournament.

After one night, I went 12/16... Utah State, Louisville Vanderbilt and Missouri all let me down... I TOTALLY called the Gonzaga game though

[LocoColt04]

I'm still a little shocked at Morehead AND Richmond both getting into the third round. It's almost a shame that they're playing each other next, because I'd like to see how many more upsets they might have pulled off (or if it was just one of those lucky one-and-done flukes).

Picking between those two, I'd put Morehead into the Sweet Sixteen, likely squaring off against Kansas. I don't really see ANY of the one-seeds losing out before the fourth round. While not impossible, it's highly unlikely. Of course, Kansas will dominate them, so it won't matter by the Elite Eight anyway.

[Rocky]

I was a little shocked by the Georgetown massacre. None of their stars could get anything going, and they shot from the 3pt line like shit. Pretty embarrassing imo.

Kansas had me a little worried in the first half, but Morningstar got things rolling in the 2nd half and made some rediculous reverse layup that made me stand up in awe. He seems legit.

and Duke destroyed! I thought they had an easy season too, maybe they just make it look easy .

Zags won too, bottom line: I'm happy for another round.

[LocoColt04]

Please tell me that you guys just watched/heard that DOUBLE OVERTIME San Diego State victory over Temple? I mean, I know it shouldn't come as a great shock that a 2 seed beat a 7 seed, but the game was just so electric! I would not be surprised to see SDSU over Duke at this point.

[psychosyd]

I did, I enjoyed that game a great deal.

I lost a Final Four team with Pitt losing, but I knew they were not going to make it to the Final Four so I don't feel so bad. I just could not see who they would lose to.

Is anybody watching this BYU vs Gonzaga game? If BYU played like this consistently they would be a SOLID final four contender.

Did I mention Jimmer Fredette is a SICK SICK player?