Lombardi Handicappers' Madness (Year 9)

[reismark]

Originally posted by Berzerker
Reismark, send Ninot an email invite

I sent him his invite Sunday night. He needs to check his junk mail folder to make sure it didn't end up in there.

[H Tower]

Still In.

[gjramsey]

picks made.

[H Tower]

I love how we don't have to make a new groups year after year, and that even our past tournaments are all available for reviewing. Not to mention the fact that CBS doesn't let you save your bracket unless you fill in all of your picks. We had a problem in the yahoo league where someone didn't get their national title game pick saved.

[reismark]

Sportsline does it right. That's why we've stuck with them all these years.

Now, I just wish Sportsline could do something about my propensity for having my brackets go on life support after ONE ****ING DAY every year except for 2005.

[snoopy369]

Well, I'm screwed in this one already... dang Vanderbilt, beat Tennessee but can't beat Siena

[snoopy369]

I think my bracket is down to one possibility: Memphis beats Tennessee in the final game, and I either get the third F4 team (Xavier) while Imran does not get Wisconsin, or both of us do identically in F4 but I win more E8 or whatnot than he. Any other result involves me losing...

Go teams from TN

[Imran Siddiqui]

Wait a sec... I just saw my name as in I have a chance at something. That CAN'T be right!! Take it back!

(HOLY ****, I actually predicted WVU beating Duke... but picked UConn to go to the Final Four from that part of the bracket )

[reismark]

Obviously, being in last place currently with a middle-of-the-road best score possible, Kansas has got to run the table for me to have any chance whatsoever. Seeing how a good portion of the pool has UCLA winning, if A&M had been able to pull off the upset it would've helped me more than hurt me (even though the Bruins are a Final Four team for me). Think I'll just take it a day at a time at this point and root against the #2 seeds tomorrow, which would help my cause a lot.

BTW: Will the NCAA revise a score after the fact if it's irrelevant to the ultimate result? Clearly that dunk at the buzzer in the UCLA/A&M game shouldn't have counted.

[-Jrabbit]

I don't think it affected p;oint spread bettors either. So wtf.

[H Tower]

I saw a headline saying that they did revise the score. What the heck for I don't know.

[reismark]

Wow... A&M got JOBBED. This is what led to that disputed dunk:

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=12&f=1737#s=12&f=1737&t=2245954

Definitely looks like Sloan should have been on the line for two.

[Ming]

Going into the sweet 16

Group Standings
Rank Team Name Score Correct Best Score Best Correct Champion
1 Brtndr4u 92 35 227 47 North Carolina (154)
2 H Tower 88 33 209 43 UCLA (140)
3 Berzerker 86 33 219 44 UCLA (156)
3 deity dude 86 32 249 46 North Carolina (147)
3 gjramsey 86 34 219 45 UCLA (135)
3 Joe Matise 86 32 237 45 Memphis (87)
7 Imran Siddiqui 84 33 226 45 Memphis (146)
8 ColdWizard 82 32 236 45 UCLA (132)
9 Derek Tonin 80 31 225 43 Tennessee (121)
9 Ming 80 31 225 43 North Carolina (120)
9 rah 80 30 234 43 UCLA (146)
12 Tuberski 78 28 211 39 Memphis (141)
13 -Jrabbit 76 31 230 44 UCLA (170)
13 Jonny11788 76 30 218 42 North Carolina (165)
15 reismark 74 28 228 41 Kansas (149)

While Brtndr4u has the highest current score, deity dude still has the opportunity for the most points. But other people are in the hunt if somebody besides UNC wins.

[snoopy369]

The second round was much, much better to me than the first

[Tuberski]

Confidence is high, repeat, confidence is high!

ACK!