fishwax
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Thu Mar-17-11 02:57 PM
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Thursday's NCAA Tournament Thread |
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Here's today's schedule of games:
1:40 PM(13) Morehead State vs. (4) Louisville*TBS 2:10 PM(10) Penn State vs. (7) Temple*TNT 3:05 PM(13) Princeton vs. (4) Kentucky*CBS 3:10 PM(16) North Carolina-Asheville vs. (1) Pittsburgh*truTV 4:10 PM(12) Richmond vs. (5) Vanderbilt*TBS 4:40 PM(15) Northern Colorado vs. (2) San Diego State*TNT 6:50 PM(15) UC Santa Barbara vs. (2) Florida*TBS 7:15 PM(14) Wofford vs. (3) Brigham Young*CBS 7:20 PM(14) Bucknell vs. (3) Connecticut*TNT 7:27 PM(13) Belmont vs. (4) Wisconsin*truTV 9:20 PM(10) Michigan State vs. (7) UCLA*TBS 9:45 PM(11) Gonzaga vs. (6) St. John's*CBS 9:50 PM(11) Missouri vs. (6) Cincinnati*TNT 9:57 PM(12) Utah State vs. (5) Kansas State*truTV
Three games are already finished: West Virginia beat Clemson, Butler beat Old Dominion, and Morehead State just finished an upset of Louisville.
I've missed most of the early games, but got home for the last few minutes of Morehead State's win--the first big upset of the day.
Anybody else watching? Who're you cheering for?
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Thu Mar-17-11 03:01 PM
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1. Morehead State killed all of my brackets |
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I know very unlikely but I was hoping for a perfect one. I had Louisville winning in all 5 of mine. :(
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Thu Mar-17-11 03:08 PM
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:(
Horrible ending to an overachieving season.
*sigh*
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Thu Mar-17-11 03:12 PM
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Yeah, that hurts--and no perfect bracket--but as long as you didn't have them playing Penn State (who just lost to Temple) in the final game, you can still do pretty well overall :)
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Thu Mar-17-11 04:22 PM
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I got Louisville losing to Kansas in the third round in every single bracket. I guess Vanderbilt's football success had something to do with my picks.
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Thu Mar-17-11 05:54 PM
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I thought that you'd meant you had Louisville winning it all :blush:
Losing a Sweet 16 team won't hurt you too bad, though :)
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Thu Mar-17-11 03:08 PM
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3. Don't tell me that Morehead is this year's Butler |
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because they just almost killed one of my brackets. :(
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Thu Mar-17-11 03:36 PM
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7. they'll wind up killing a lot more brackets if they're this year's Butler |
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Kansas will probably be waiting for them in the 3rd round :)
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Thu Mar-17-11 07:31 PM
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18. amazingly, my coin flipping bracket got 4 out of 8 |
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and correctly predicted the Temple win over Penn. Oh, & the coins also picked Morehead State. :eyes: If Morehead goes & upends Kansas, I'm screwed.
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Thu Mar-17-11 03:22 PM
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5. Deathless prediction from my local cat box liner |
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http://www.mercurynews.com/college-sports/ci_17629515Who makes the Final Four?
Faraudo: No. 1 seeds Ohio State, Duke and Pitt, and Rick Pitino's overachieving Louisville team.:rofl:
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Thu Mar-17-11 03:38 PM
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8. hehe -- the one mildly outside the box pick and it's already gone |
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Whoops.
That's the tournament for ya, though--four hours old and already people are tearing up their brackets. That happened to me last year :rofl:
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Thu Mar-17-11 03:32 PM
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6. I picked Wisconsin in the final 4 just because I want the state to celebrate something |
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Thu Mar-17-11 03:40 PM
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9. If Wisconsin makes it through to next weekend, labor should promote a statewide walkout for about |
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Edited on Thu Mar-17-11 03:41 PM by fishwax
half an hour before tip-off :)
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Thu Mar-17-11 03:43 PM
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10. Kentucky vs. Princeton is a good game so far |
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Princeton actually had a five point lead, but Kentucky is now up by a point with about 9:30 left in the second half ...
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Thu Mar-17-11 04:06 PM
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11. tied at 57 with 34 seconds left ... |
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Thu Mar-17-11 05:34 PM
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Come on Vandy, save my brackets. :bounce:
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Thu Mar-17-11 05:42 PM
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Edited on Thu Mar-17-11 05:42 PM by JonLP24
When are the second chance brackets? :)
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Thu Mar-17-11 05:51 PM
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15. a 12 against a 13 on Saturday -- that doesn't happen often |
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Thu Mar-17-11 08:10 PM
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21. Only 3 out of the last 4 years. |
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Thu Mar-17-11 08:33 PM
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23. well, sure, but not since way back in 2009 |
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:P
I'd forgotten that it had happened a few times in a row before last year, though.
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Thu Mar-17-11 08:46 PM
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24. Hee hee. You're totally right though. It is kinda wacky... |
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regardless of whether or not its happened before.
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Thu Mar-17-11 05:56 PM
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17. I'm already in some trouble |
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I got Richmond on one bracket, but missed Morehead State completely. Fortunately, I don't have any of the losers going too far (Louisville to the sweet 16, but that's all).
I remember on year I picked 15 of the sweet 16, then came Neutron Thursday, in which my teams were demolished but the bracket remained standing. I lost something like 7 out of 8, salvaged a couple on the other side, but wound up with only three of the final eight teams, and only one projected to the final four. Let's go, uh, anybody! Nooo, not you.
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Thu Mar-17-11 07:37 PM
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Thu Mar-17-11 07:38 PM
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20. I won our DU bracket pool two years ago. Came in 3rd (I think?) last year. This year.. |
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I'm 3/8 so far. And my pick for Wofford to score an upset is looking grimmer by the second.
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Thu Mar-17-11 08:15 PM
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22. I'm looking at the Yahoo! leaderboard |
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Edited on Thu Mar-17-11 08:18 PM by JonLP24
there are at least 50 with a perfect bracket so far but I'm looking at this one person's bracket. He/she didn't pick winners for the final 4. Meaning he/she didn't pick the teams for the final. It would be interesting if he/she got a perfect bracket all the way to final 4 but missed out on that million because he/she didn't pick teams for the title game.
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Thu Mar-17-11 09:32 PM
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25. Utah State playing Kansas State tough so far |
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I've got a soft spot for Utah State because they're coached by Stew Morrill, who used to coach at Colorado State (where I saw my first college basketball game).
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