NCAA B-Ball Tourney Bracket

[lawyerlee]

This initial information is copied from the College Basketball thread. If it's okay, we can use this thread for questions and chatting about our brackets and use the other thread for chatting about teams and the tourney generally. :)

I've got us set up with a bracket competition on Yahoo!. I think that's what we did last year, and it's pretty easy to use.

Here are the details:

Group ID# 42765
Group Name CC March Madness
Group Password constantchatter

First things first, you need to select a team name. My Team name is KULawGirl. It can be anything you want, as long as it's not already taken. If you use something other than your CC name, as I did, please let us know here so we can connect you up.

Go to this link:

Yahoo! Sports Tournament Pick 'Em (http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/)

and click "Sign up".

Once you have your team name, you will need to use the Group ID# and Group Password to sign up for the group.

Go to this link:

Join Private Group (http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/men/register/joinprivategroup)


A little more about the contest:

Your goal is to accumulate as many points as possible by correctly picking the winning team in each of the games played during the college basketball tournament. Each correct pick earns points based on the tournament round, and the player finishing with the highest total wins each group.

You can make and change your picks as often as you like, but your final picks must be submitted by five minutes before the first game tips off on Thursday, March 17.


Let me know if you experience any problems and/or need any assistance. You won't be able to start making your picks until the teams are announced tonight, but you can go ahead and sign up. :)

[southerner]

It was easy to register! Thanks for setting it up!

May the best lady win :p

[roberta]

I can't get the private group link to work.

GO UK!

[lawyerlee]

I can't get the private group link to work.

GO UK!

I think it's working now. Thanks for the heads up. Sorry about that. :)

[Camdynlyn]

I'm in using the same name!!

[roberta]

Thanks for fixing the link!
I am roberta_gouk

[eponymous]

May the best lady win :p

No way! May the most accurate lady win!

;)

[sublime311]

Coolio! I'm in as sublime311!

[sublime311]

The brackets have been loaded ladies, so you can make your selections! I'm SOOOO excited!

[meggers]

I'm in. I love March Madness.

[Camdynlyn]

Sooo just throwing out my Alumni...

Go UNC-Wilmington! FEEL THE TEAL!:p

[mili04]

I just signed up!

[TazLuv]

I'm in as GoYoungJayhawks. :D

[ajlanden]

Oooooo...me too, me too!! Fighting Butterflies is IN!

[justmom]

Yeah! I lurve the MADNESS!!!!

Ijust joined the Board today and saw this - can't wait...love college basketball.

Alex
"It's Pac-10's Year"

[lawyergirl25]

GO DUKE!!!
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b315/lawyergirl25/images.jpg

[Cali*Girl]

I'm in as CinderellaTeam.

Good luck everyone!

[lawyergirl25]

All right, I'm in as lawyergirl25 (pretty original, eh?). Diana, you will be happy to know that I put Kansas in the Final Four, although they ultimately lose to Duke (your National Champions). Duke wins over North Carolina, who managed to knock Villanova out of the whole thing with a last-second 3-pointer in overtime.

I'm clairvoyant. ;)

[southerner]

Don't forget tomorrow is the deadline for setting up your bracket.

[lawyerlee]

All right, I'm in as lawyergirl25 (pretty original, eh?). Diana, you will be happy to know that I put Kansas in the Final Four, although they ultimately lose to Duke (your National Champions). Duke wins over North Carolina, who managed to knock Villanova out of the whole thing with a last-second 3-pointer in overtime.

I'm clairvoyant. ;)
That sounds promising! That should be good experience for us going into next year. :D

I'm really suprised at how many non-KU people are picking us in the Final Four. I hope their predictions are right. :)

[southerner]

so, who do y'all have going into the Final Four? I picked Duke, UCLA, UConn and BC.

I'm bummed Memphis (my hometwon team) and KU (my alma mater) might have to play. That's never happened before :( I chose Memphis. I think they deserve it. John Calipari is a great coach and the city and college don't get props as often as KU does. Hope my fellow Hawk fans understand ;)

eta: D, maybe a mod can changed the title of the thread so we can talk about the tourney in general?

[lawyerlee]

so, who do y'all have going into the Final Four? I picked Duke, UCLA, UConn and BC.

I'm bummed Memphis (my hometwon team) and KU (my alma mater) might have to play. That's never happened before :( I chose Memphis. I think they deserve it. John Calipari is a great coach and the city and college don't get props as often as KU does. Hope my fellow Hawk fans understand ;)
Traitor!!!! ;)

I have KU, Duke, Florida, and North Carolina. I feel okay about these picks, I guess. The only one I'm iffy about is Florida, but I didn't want all four of my picks to be obvious, if that makes sense.

We do a contest in my office, too, so I may do my picks for that slightly differently. I'll let ya know. I actually need to get to work on those. :eek: :)

[lawyerlee]

eta: D, maybe a mod can changed the title of the thread so we can talk about the tourney in general?
Yeah, I can PM a mod if that's what seems like the thing to do. I didn't want to step on anyone's toes. :)

[southerner]

LL Do you have a Duke/UNC final????? :cool:

who's toes you steppin' on? You started the damn thread :p

[lawyergirl25]

We do a contest in my office, too, so I may do my picks for that slightly differently.
I did mine differently too. I've got two brackets for the office pool. Here are my Final Fours for all 3 of my brackets:

CC: Duke, Villanova, Kansas, UNC --> Duke vs. UNC --> Duke
Work #1: Duke, Villanova, Gonzaga, UNC --> Duke vs. Villanova --> Duke
Work #2: Duke, Villanova, Mich. St., UCLA --> Duke vs. Villanova --> Duke

[lawyerlee]

LL Do you have a Duke/UNC final????? :cool:

who's toes you steppin' on? You started the damn thread :p
I meant the person who started the other B-Ball thread, silly! :)

I actually have a KU/UNC final. Oh, the drama! :D

[TazLuv]

I have KU, Duke, Boston College and UNC. I really struggled with the fact that I ended up with 3 ACC teams but I guess that's just the way it goes.

Go KU! :D

[Sposa06]

I'm in! I'm sposa06 over there, too. I love sports, but just can't get into threads about sports, really. I love to talk sports IRL, though.

Anywho, my Final Four are Duke, Kansas, UConn and BC. (See my sig for the National Champion!)

I can't wait for tomorrow! :D

[young lioness]

I'm in.

I always pick my teams based on a complicated system of picking the schools that people I know went to, or if I don't know anyone who went there, based on school colors and mascots. (In the past it has worked out well for me because I know lots of people who went to Big 10 and ACC schools.) This year was weird for me because I only know one person who went to any of the schools in the Oakland bracket, so I feel like it messes up my system.

I have Duke, Memphis, UConn, and Ohio State in the final four, with Duke vs. UConn in the finals, and UConn winning it all.

[mili04]

I have Duke, Memphis, UConn, and Ohio State in the final four

These are my final four also, but I have Memphis and UConn playing for the championship with UConn winning. It was so hard for me to leave Arizona out of the final four (I'm an alumn), but I know they are not a good team this year. :( Oh, well. I love March Madness anyway!

[sublime311]

These are my final four also, but I have Memphis and UConn playing for the championship with UConn winning. It was so hard for me to leave Arizona out of the final four (I'm an alumn), but I know they are not a good team this year. :( Oh, well. I love March Madness anyway!
Boooo! :D

[EmilyBronte]

I actually have a KU/UNC final. Oh, the drama! :D

I would be willing to lose points to see this matchup in the final! I would love to see my Heels go to another championship game.

I have Duke, UConn, BC, and Kansas in my final 4, UConn and Duke in the final 2, and UConn winning.

[jessied1025]

I'm in!! Some user name as here...Jessied1025.

My final 4 are: Memphis, Iowa, UConn & Ohio State, with UConn winning it all. Since I am a big Wisconsin Badger fan, I have all the Big Ten teams going as far as I possible think they can. Unfortunately, I don't think the Badgers will get past Villanova, but at least they should win tomorrow against Zona.

GO BUCKY!!:)

[JillyB]

I'm in! (same name as here) :) Ahhhhh...this is one of the days that I look forward to all year long...the beginning of the Madness (sorry, I don't count the "play-in" game the other night)!!!! My Final Four: Texas, UCLA, UConn, and Nova. Championship Game: UCLA vs. UConn...and the Huskies cutting down the nets!

And as I was filling out my bracket, I was looking for some first round upsets, and after reading this...
Go UNC-Wilmington! FEEL THE TEAL!

I cracked up and had to pick the Seahawks (they are the Seahawks, right?)! Do you really cheer "Feel the Teal!" at UNC-W? hehe...that cracks me up!

[lawyergirl25]

I am a big Wisconsin Badger fan
Me too! But I have them losing in the second round. :( It's not fair that they would have to face Villanova so early!!

[jessied1025]

Originally Posted by lawyergirl25
It's not fair that they would have to face Villanova so early!!

I think if they played better in the Big Ten tourney and the last couple games of the season they would have gotten a better seed. Do you know if Ray Nixon is going to play or not? I know he sprained his ankle the beginning of the week. He didn't practica at all and most of the time he was in a boot.

[t3h_wookiee]

Ugh, just lost my post!

I'm in under the same name. My picks are bad, but that's because I procrastinated until just now to look again at the brackets. :sigh: So I have my first thought picks so I could get in in time, and then I had time to change up a few that I screwed up on.

Right now my Final Four is Texas, Gonzaga (as long as Morrison is healthy), UNC and BC. Championship between Texas and UNC, with UNC winning. I wanted to change that, but it's too late now, lol!

[lawyerlee]

Hopefully just going with your gut instincts will help you do really well, Jess. :)

So far, I'm three for three in my picks! :D I'll take it. :)

(10) Seton Hall 66
(7) Wichita State 86 (F)

(11) Wisconsin - Milwaukee 82 (F)
(6) Oklahoma 74

(13) Pacific 76
(4) Boston College 88 (F)

[lawyerlee]

Yay, we're back! :)

The rest of yesterday's scores:

(14) South Alabama 50
(3) Florida 76 (F)

(10) Alabama 90 (F)
(7) Marquette 85

(12) Montana 87 (F)
(5) Nevada 79

(13) Iona 64
(4) LSU 80 (F)

(14) Xavier 75
(3) Gonzaga 79 (F)

(13) Air Force 69
(4) Illinois 78 (F)

(11) San Diego State 83
(7) Indiana 87 (F)

(12) Texas A&M 66 (F)
(5) Syracuse 58

(16) Southern 54
(1) Duke 70 (F)

(12) Utah State 61
(5) Washington 75 (F)

(9) NC Wilmington 85
(8) George Washington 88 (F)

(15) Belmont 44
(2) UCLA 78 (F)

How is everyone doing on your brackets? I've missed two games so far. I picked Nevada and UNC Wilmington. Not so bad, but I made the mistake of putting Nevada through a couple of rounds. Oops!

[young lioness]

I got 12 out of 16 so far, which is a lot better than I was doing at this time last year. I missed with picking Oklahoma, Seton Hall, Marquette, and NC Wilmington. Luckily I didn't have any of those teams picked to go any further than that.

Right now it looks like Arkansas and Wisconsin are losing. I never seem to pick well with the #8 and #9 seed matchup.

[lawyerlee]

Man! I wish I'd seen the end of the Iowa v. Northwestern St. game. Quite a finish!

(15) Davidson 62
(2) Ohio State 70 (F)

(14) Northwestern State 64 (F)
(3) Iowa 63

(9) Wisconsin 75
(8) Arizona 94 (F)

(9) Bucknell 59 (F)
(8) Arkansas 55

[sublime311]

(14) Northwestern State 64 (F)
(3) Iowa 63

(9) Wisconsin 75
(8) Arizona 94 (F)

Flippin' Iowa just messed up my whole bracket!

WOO HOO! Arizona! They're moving on to certain death at the hands of Villanova, but at least we're not out at the first round!

[lawyerlee]

Yeah, Arizona took care of business today. :)

I can't freaking believe Iowa losing like that. :rolleyes: I didn't think they'd lose in the first round. DH thought they seemed really nervous, and I suppose he might be right. None of those guys had played in an NCAA tournament before.

(10) Northern Iowa 49
(7) Georgetown 54 (F)

(11) Southern Illinois 46
(6) West Virginia 64 (F)

[Regina Phalange]

And Carolina wins!! Though I'm not impressed with the way they are playing. Come on boys!!

ETA: Oh no Lawyerlee sorry for your loss!

[southerner]

KU chokes again, what else is new :mad:

[lawyerlee]

Thanks, FutureGallucci. I'm dissapointed that KU lost. They really weren't themselves. Jeff Hawkins made a valiant effort to pull out a win, but it just wasn't enough. I have to hope this experience will take us further next year. :(

[lawyerlee]

My long-overdue update of final scores from today:

(9) UAB 64
(8) Kentucky 69 (F)

(15) Pennsylvania 52
(2) Texas 60 (F)

(10) N.C. State 58 (F)
(7) California 52

(12) Kent St. 64
(5) Pittsburgh 79 (F)

(13) Bradley 77 (F)
(4) Kansas 73

(16) Albany 59
(1) Connecticut 72 (F)

(11) George Mason 75 (F)
(6) Michigan St. 65

(14) Murray St. 65
(3) North Carolina 69 (F)

(16) Monmouth 45
(1) Villanova 58 (F)

(16) Oral Roberts 78
(1) Memphis 94 (F)

[Camdynlyn]

GO NC STATE!!

[southerner]

LL, no more Hawk avatar? :(

[TazLuv]

KU's loss is heartbreaking but luckily Rush has said he will be back next year and now they know how that loss feels. :(

[kugrrly]

I am so sad this morning. :(

[justmom]

Such a dork - I missed the deadline for entering my picks. I had the first day of games as St. Patricks Day...

But at least UCLA are still in the hunt :)

[southerner]

On a brighter note :o

I'm posting the stats for the CC bracket.


1st- 25 bookworm's team
1st- 25 NovaDuke
1st- 25 vwinkel
4th- 24 UNC98MCK
4th- 24 ramaba
6th- 23 jessied1025
6th- 23 GoYoungJayhawks
6th- 23 KULawGirl
9th- 22 meggers
9th- 22 Michelle's Picks
9th- 22 sublime311
9th- 22 lawyergirl25
9th- 22 Go Gators
9th- 22 Lauren's Picks
9th- 22 young lioness
9th- 22 mili04
9th- 22 southerner
9th- 22 BoomerSooner
19th- 21 RandomPicks
19th- 21 CinderellaTeam
19th- 21 Miaclear
22nd- 2- JillyB
22nd- 20 Fighting Butterflies
22nd- 20 sposa06
25th- 19 lconoscenti
25th- 19 Camdynlyn
25th- 19 Kitlyn

Alot of you had KU in the Final Four, didn't you??

[southerner]

justmom, let me guess....Pac 10's year? ;) There's always next year. Welcome to CC!

[bookworm]

:o Speaking of being dorks, I created a new yahoo id for this, and now I don't remember what it was :o . Does it happen to show up with my team's pick? I believe it was some combination of cc and bookworm, and yet...my tries are not working.

Sometimes my brilliance astounds me...

ETA: AHA! I found it :).

[Camdynlyn]

I suck at the bracket! I've been either the winner or the first/second place of our pool with work/Hubby's work for the past 4 years!!

[bookworm]

The first round doesn't mean much (unless your all-the-way team(s) were eliminated)!

[t3h_wookiee]

Yeah KU losing hurt my bracket, and so did Iowa. Not to mention my Sooners choking again. :sigh: We're so inconsistent. We're a very very good team, but we can't seem to keep it together all the time. Very frustrating. Now I'm even more annoyed and pissed at De'Angelo Alexander and Drew Lavendar. :mad: If they had stayed instead of ditching because they couldn't start every game, then we could have gone deep in the tournament I bet.

[lawyerlee]

I am so sad this morning. :(
(((hugs))) :(

[eponymous]

I'm really amused - I entered another pool and forgot that I needed to also enter my picks in the CC pool until 12:05, so I had to guess which teams I'd picked. I'm five points ahead in my other pool because I correctly picked a bunch of the upsets!

[Sposa06]

Bradley? Really?

My bracket sucks.

[Sposa06]

As a Duke fan, I'm happy that UNC is out.

On the other hand, I had them getting to the Elite Eight.

[vwinkel]

Bradley? Really?
It's my alma mater but I didn't even pick them to win. That was my reaction too. Now I'm toally rooting for them even though I know they are going to get their ass kicked.

[Regina Phalange]

Seriously?!?! What is up this year? Carolina was a total let down. Bleh!:o

[lawyergirl25]

As a Duke fan, I'm happy that UNC is out.

On the other hand, I had them getting to the Elite Eight.
Ditto. Except I had Duke facing them in the final game. Grrrr.

[t3h_wookiee]

Well dang, my bracket is completely dead now. :p

[TazLuv]

Quite the upsets weren't they. The brackets look screwy, can you beleive there is a bracket on the ESPN contest that is only missing two of the Sweet 16, how do they do that?

I'm currently 3rd in ours but since there are so few of my teams left I'll be dropping like a rock very soon. ;)

[mili04]

I'm so sad Arizona lost :(

So did anyone pick Bradley or George Mason to be in the Sweet 16??

[lawyerlee]

I'm so sad Arizona lost :(

So did anyone pick Bradley or George Mason to be in the Sweet 16??
Hell no! I had KU. :( I can't believe how piss poor the committee did the seeding this year. :mad: Both Wichita State and Bradley should have been seeded higher, but weren't because they are in a small conference (Missouri Valley). It's so not cool. Not that that is the only reason Bradley beat KU, of course. They are a more experienced and mature team, too. But they are not a 13.

ETA: Sorry I've totally slacked on adding the final scores this weekend. I've been feeling pretty crappy. If someone else wants to do it, by all means. :)

[JillyB]

Am I the only person in a chipper mood this morning?!?!

Let's Gooooo Mountaineers!!!!

I've thrown my bracket to the wind, and I'm just focused on supporting my team! And of course, it's a GREAT weekend for this 'Eers fan, when Pitt, OSU, UNC, Kansas (Sorry Jayhawk fans, but one of my cousins attended KU. And we are very competitive when it comes to our basketball teams.), Indiana, etc. all fall short of the Sweet Sixteen! It could only be sweeter, if BC had flopped as well. The Cats *almost* pulled it out over UConn...Sparks gave every ounce he had in that one. I was very proud of their showing against the Huskies.

[Camdynlyn]

YAY for NO CAROLINA but BOO for NO NC STATE!!

[jessied1025]

It is crazy how this years tournament is shaking out. No team has stood out to be the one to beat. I am so dissapointed in my Big Ten teams...what a way to ruined a bracket.

[young lioness]

My Atlanta bracket is still intact, and I still have 3 of my final four overall, but the Big 10 losses (Illinois, Ohio State, Michigan State) hurt me a lot.

[ajlanden]

Any way we can start another bracket for the Sweet 16? It would be fun to actually have teams to cheer for again! :) Seeing as a lot of mine lost!

[lawyergirl25]

I just got razzed at work via mass email. You know, I didn't enter two virtually identical brackets on purpose! I can't help that I really really really think it'll be Duke over Villanova in the final. I did choose different teams for the remaining Final Four slots!

I'm so hard done by.

[southerner]

posting the bracket stats after last night's games:

1 meggers 54
2 Go Gators 52
3 bookworm's team 51
4 UNC98MCK 50
4 JillyB 50
4 ramaba 50
7 southerner 48
8 RandomPicks 47
8 Kitlyn 47
8 CinderellaTeam 47
8 vwinkel 47
8 NovaDuke 47
13 mili04 46
13 young lioness 46
15 lconoscenti 45
16 Michelle's Picks 44
16 BoomerSooner 44
16 lawyergirl25 44
16 sublime311 44
20 KULawGirl 43
21 sposa06 42
22 GoYoungJayhawks 41
22 jessied1025 41
24 Lauren's Picks 40
25 Miaclear 37
26 Fighting Butterflies 36
27 Camdynlyn 35

[lawyerlee]

If Florida doesn't win tonight, all of my Final Four picks for our contest will be out! :eek:

In my office contest, I picked Texas instead of Duke, so at least I know I have them. My whole goal with the office contest is to place as close to the middle as possible. If you win, you have to use the money for our office lunch so we aren't gambling ( :rolleyes: ) and if you lose, you have to plan the lunch.

So it will be kinda funny if I do better in that one than in our Yahoo! contest because I actually tried to do well in this one! :D (Well, except for picking KU to win, of course! ;) )

[EmilyBronte]

In my office contest, I picked Texas instead of Duke, so at least I know I have them. My whole goal with the office contest is to place as close to the middle as possible. If you win, you have to use the money for our office lunch so we aren't gambling ( :rolleyes: ) and if you lose, you have to plan the lunch.


That's pretty cool. So if you're in the middle you get to just enjoy the lunch? Nice. I hope you end up in the middle!

[Camdynlyn]

Officially last. Great.

[lawyerlee]

That's pretty cool. So if you're in the middle you get to just enjoy the lunch? Nice. I hope you end up in the middle!
It really is nice! Everyone brings something to eat, but otherwise you just show up and GRUB. But I've got bad news - We got our updated standings this afternoon, and I'm tied for fourth! Noooooo!!!!! :p

[bookworm]

So, did anyone have George Mason in the final four? I think I'm rooting for them from here on out :).

[lawyerlee]

So, did anyone have George Mason in the final four? I think I'm rooting for them from here on out :).
Nope, I sure didn't! But I'm definitely cheering for them. They have been so amazing and determined. I'm impressed as hell! :)

[t3h_wookiee]

I definitely didn't (man my bracket is completely dead!), but I'm sure as heck cheering for them now!

[Sposa06]

Is it just me, or was that game and the subsequent celebration totally boring?

[lawyerlee]

No, I thought it was pretty boring, too. I'm guessing only Florida fans found it truly exciting. :)

Looks like congratulations are in order to JillyB, as she ended up in first place in the bracket competition. :D

Here are the standings:

1 JillyB 86
2 meggers 74
3 lconoscenti 73
4 Go Gators 64
5 ramaba 62
6 southerner 60
7 bookworm's team 59
8 KULawGirl 59
9 CinderellaTeam 59
10 RandomPicks 59
11 lawyergirl25 56
12 sublime311 56
13 Kitlyn 55
14 UNC98MCK 54
15 NovaDuke 51
16 vwinkel 51
17 young lioness 50
18 mili04 50
19 jessied1025 49
20 BoomerSooner 48
21 sposa06 46
22 GoYoungJayhawks 45
23 Lauren's Picks 44
24 Fighting Butterflies 44
25 Michelle's Picks 44
26 Camdynlyn 43
27 Miaclear 41

[southerner]

congrats jillyB!! You had UCLA in the finals.

[sublime311]

Congratulations JillyB!! You rock!

[JillyB]

Thanks ladies! :D I finished 2nd in my work pool with this same bracket. I'm 50 bucks richer as a result! Woo hoo! Now, what to spend my moo-lah on...hmmmmm...

[lawyergirl25]

Wow, I thought for sure I'd be near the bottom. 11 isn't too shabby given the number of games I lost!

Congrats JillyB!

[t3h_wookiee]

I can't believe I ended up at 20! Much higher than I expected. :D