2011 ncaa

that said i think geography is pretty overrated -- didn't duke beat two texas teams in dallas last year

florida had been pretty locked into tampa for weeks now (ive been paying attn, im going to the games in tampa)

duke beating unc in greensboro today also counts

xp i agree, uconn could outdraw sdsu fan-wise in anaheim easily i think

what is yr team jcrunch?

#uconn

ct huskies yah

just decided a few months ago to go to tampa over like dc or chicago based on weather & price

its more abt having those days off to enjoy like every game

the illinois/kansas matchup will be filled w/ bad blood. i'll be in urbana for that game. kansas will win, but bill self can suck it.

...assuming illinois beats unlv, of course.

http://ncaabracket.nytimes.com/2011/bracket/men/fivethirtyeight-forecast

zzzzzzzzz

Nate has come to the shocking conclusion that all four #1 seeds have the greatest statistical chance of getting to the Final Four. Stunning!

he boldly chose three of the #9 seeds and two of the #10s tho

I've played a bracket the last five years w/o ever watching the season or researching my picks and I actually won once. This year I picked Syracuse to go all the way. My pick: smart or dumb?

Its all a crap shoot.

yea feel like brackets are mostly abt a) luck b) patterns - like it doesnt really matter who you pick as long as you take one 12 over 5 upset etc

i had missed this, but a hearty lol goes out to gary williams, whose maryland terrapins were not even invited to the nit.

"I guess there are different reasons why you pick teams, other than based on the ability of the team," Williams said.

As he has earlier this season, Williams suggested that part of that is a result of more effective lobbying.

"Next year, I think we're going to be a very good team, and I'm going to talk a lot about how good we're going to be. The Big East has done that consistently; the Big Ten has done that consistently. The ACC has to do a better job talking about how good its teams are."

the world is always so mean to gary

Hi dudes!

guess whos blindly doing a bracket this year? Am kind of psyched, followed the tournament last year and got caught up in the excitement, giving it a proper whirl this year to see how I do. (Not a crazy bball fan but I enjoy college hoops well enough)

First lesson: when they say "Oakland" they don't mean OAKLAND

Someone should set up an ilx one. Is yahoo the best site?

I can do it when I get home

I've joined a yahoo one through work, and it's really easy peasy

h8 play-in games but that was entertaining tbh

get this shit off my tv

when are charles and kenny coming on

lol

when are charles and kenny coming on

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:22 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

old man style posting

Hand me my shotgun

ha

for real tho play-in games are fucking depressing i hate to think about the team that doesn't actually get to make it to the tournament, so fucked up

Yeah the concept seems kind of mean and pitying

i need someone who understands this shit to explain the expansion to 68 teams to me

they want to play as many games as possible because they'll make more money but there was a public outrage over them expanding the field to 96 or whatever they wanted to do so i guess they just settled on 68

it doesn't seem to make much sense to me, feel like the ad dollars they make on uab-clemson has to be negligible to the CBS corporation but what do i know

the good thing tho is that it lead to them getting tbs & court tv into the fold so all the games are on TV now, also charles & kenny

it feels really arbitrary that two teams will play each other to be #12, while #s 13, 14, 15, and 16 (in two cases anyway) are slotted into the dance.

this simmons/chad ford podcast is really cool, talking about all the top prospects (sullinger, kyrie, jimmer, barnes etc) http://espn.go.com/espnradio/player?rd=1#/podcenter/?autoplay=1&callsign=ESPNRADIO&id=6216943

<3 chad ford

it feels really arbitrary that two teams will play each other to be #12, while #s 13, 14, 15, and 16 (in two cases anyway) are slotted into the dance.

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yeah i think the problem is that they needed to get better teams into the game aside from "who gets to get blown to pieces by the #1 overall team" but anything over the 12 seed would be punishing some of the better teams -- idk, it's stupid

expansion is so classic "wow everyone loves this great thing!! We should make more money off it and make it ridiculously big and make more money and ultimately destroy the thing that everyone loved about it OMG YESSSSS "

yeah as far as the casual fan is concerned nothing starts until there's exactly 64, so it punishes these teams even more.

no one even bothers incorporating this shit into bracket pools either

I know I didn't

yeah well they make it tough even if you wanted to--selection on sunday, first game tuesday night, you'd have to be hardcore

I am so very not hardcore

kyrie irving has been cleared to play o_O

yeah i saw that -- have to wonder how much impact he'll have tho he hasn't played in what like 3 months? also he only played like 8 games with the team -- idk i think that dude is amazing but we'll see

yeah it's hard to say, but it seems unlikely to make them worse anyway

yeah that's pretty much what i concluded

wow uab looks terrible

so the winner of this game has to fly to tampa tonight, have a mandatory press conference tomorrow, then play at noon on thursday. smdh

they deserve it esp if it's UAB

they've got a full day with just a presser--that's not really that bad imo

would join ilx pool