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[March Madness] Brackets selected, get to signin' up and fillin' out

MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
edited March 2009 in Debate and/or Discourse
This

Is

March Madness!

Are you ready for bubble teams?
Are you ready for first round upsets?
Are you ready for Sweet Sixteens and Elite Eights and Final Fours?

How about BUZZER BEATERS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t3rg_AptzM

How about UTTER UPSET DISAPPOINTMENT

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So, talk about the NCAA tourny here.

Also:

FILL OUT A BRACKET!

I have start a Yahoo group so we can all fill out brackets and see who is the best basketball seer.

You should fill one out even if you know nothing about basketball. Crazy things happen in March, and sometimes the ill-informed are better predictors than the ultra-informed.

Group name: D+D Bracketeering
Group #: 27877
Password: wangs

There will be a prize for the winner. A small prize. But a prize.

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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Usually we fill out brackets after they pick the field

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Eh, the bubble teams never go anywhere anyway

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  • clownfoodclownfood packet pusher in the wallsRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Time to catch up on college hoops. I have the feeling that Kansas, as much as I am going to root for them, isn't going to repeat.

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  • Josiah_9Josiah_9 Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    clownfood wrote: »
    Time to catch up on college hoops. I have the feeling that Kansas, as much as I am going to root for them, isn't going to repeat.

    I don't think Kansas is getting in.

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  • Element BrianElement Brian Peanut Butter Shill Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Woo BYU! We've only lost..a...couple games. But we beat Utah, that counts for something!

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Is the prize a trip to the next big dance?

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    Ringo wrote: »
    Usually we fill out brackets after they pick the field

    did you see the part where it says "get ready" to fill out brackets

    EDIT: I think if you sign up for the yahoo group now it will email you when the field is selected so you can go fill em out

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  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I remember watching that Valpo game from the Top 10 up there. That was a fun day to happen to be in the town of Valparaiso.

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  • clownfoodclownfood packet pusher in the wallsRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Josiah_9 wrote: »
    clownfood wrote: »
    Time to catch up on college hoops. I have the feeling that Kansas, as much as I am going to root for them, isn't going to repeat.

    I don't think Kansas is getting in.

    They are tied for the lead in the Big 12 conference. They have a record of 24 - 6. I think they will probably get a number 3 or 4 seed in one of the brackets.

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  • GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Dyscord wrote: »
    Eh, the bubble teams never go anywhere anyway
    Wasn't George Mason the last team in a few years back?

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  • lazegamerlazegamer The magnanimous cyberspaceRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Was the '99 Gonzaga team that knocked off a bunch of high seeds an at-large berth (ie bubble)?

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    Brackets are chosen!

    SIGN UP PEOPLE

    http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Signed up, with the Sparties in the title game which makes me sad.

    I *may* be a Big Ten homer.

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  • kdrudykdrudy Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Have one all filled out and ready to go, it's a pretty Big East winning heavy bracket no matter how you cut it.

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  • MatrijsMatrijs Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I have added my wild guesses to this group.

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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I have VCU over Duke and VCU in the Elite Eight. Only because I couldn't see Duke losing before then.

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    Sterica wrote: »
    I know my last visit to my grandpa on his deathbed was to find out how the whole Nazi werewolf thing turned out.
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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    So I just fill out the thing eh?

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  • GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I'm in as Bracket's Edge.

    It symbolizes both Mirror's Edge and the fact that I will get the edges of the bracket correct (the 1-16's and 2-15's) and everything else wrong.

    By the way, the thing I notice about the brackets is that, even though they created a play-in game, nobody ever asks you to predict it. What if someone thinks Alabama St. will beat Louisville but Morehead St. won't? What then, bracket gods?

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    It used to be the first tie breaker in the bracket my friend ran. Worth a half point.

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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Some people have a hard enough time getting their brackets done by Thursday. Having them done by end of work/school on Tuesday afternoon is a no-go.

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  • GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    WORK IS FOR THE WEAK

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    Ringo wrote: »
    Some people have a hard enough time getting their brackets done by Thursday. Having them done by end of work/school on Tuesday afternoon is a no-go.

    "Click on a team name to advance that team to the next round. Submit your picks before the first game on Thursday, March 19."

    ?

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Medopine wrote: »
    Ringo wrote: »
    Some people have a hard enough time getting their brackets done by Thursday. Having them done by end of work/school on Tuesday afternoon is a no-go.

    "Click on a team name to advance that team to the next round. Submit your picks before the first game on Thursday, March 19."

    ?

    We were discussing the play in game, which is on Tuesday.

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    enlightenedbum wrote: »
    Medopine wrote: »
    Ringo wrote: »
    Some people have a hard enough time getting their brackets done by Thursday. Having them done by end of work/school on Tuesday afternoon is a no-go.

    "Click on a team name to advance that team to the next round. Submit your picks before the first game on Thursday, March 19."

    ?

    We were discussing the play in game, which is on Tuesday.
    oh gotcha

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Should it take longer than 1 minute to do this thing?

    I hope I win!

    :(

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  • lonelyahavalonelyahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I haven't got a single #1 seed in my final four.

    I don't even have a #2 seed in my final four.

    I am so not getting any of these games right.

    Final Four Picks:

    Wake Forest v Purdue
    Villanova v Syracuse


    hey, it could happen.

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  • GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I don't think there's ever been a year in which no #1 has made the Final Four.

    EDIT: No, wait, there have been two years where that's happened. But in both years, a 2 made it.

    For the record, I have UConn over Kansas, Villanova over North Carolina, UConn over Villanova.

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  • gundam470gundam470 Drunk Gorilla CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Gosling wrote: »
    I don't think there's ever been a year in which no #1 has made the Final Four.

    EDIT: No, wait, there have been two years where that's happened. But in both years, a 2 made it.

    I wish we could have two brackets so I could have made my annual "all hell breaks loose" bracket where ALL the 16s advance to the second round.

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  • The JudgeThe Judge The Terwilliger CurvesRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I'm in.

    Greatest sporting event ever. And my boys are in this year, so it's even better.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5hZy-e8UQM

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    most people won't understand just what this means to michigan fans

    oh the suffering

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    gundam470 wrote: »
    Gosling wrote: »
    I don't think there's ever been a year in which no #1 has made the Final Four.

    EDIT: No, wait, there have been two years where that's happened. But in both years, a 2 made it.

    I wish we could have two brackets so I could have made my annual "all hell breaks loose" bracket where ALL the 16s advance to the second round.

    go ahead, I just changed it to two per person

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Medopine wrote: »
    most people won't understand just what this means to michigan fans

    oh the suffering

    The Amaker related epic choke jobs have been expunged.

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  • clownfoodclownfood packet pusher in the wallsRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I have Butler making a storybook run to the finals only to get smacked down by UConn. Should be an interesting tournament.

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  • gundam470gundam470 Drunk Gorilla CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Medopine wrote: »
    go ahead, I just changed it to two per person
    Sweet!

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  • lonelyahavalonelyahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I've got Nova winning over Wake forest. and yeah, I know Wake is not likely..... but still

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Announcing set up!

    No Gus Johnson for Michigan which was our only hope for the Sweet Sixteen. Dayton is suddenly very dangerous. Also Gus and Raftery working the same day so you can't get 8 games worked by them? Bummer.

    I've always wanted to hear a Gus/Raftery team.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    The most beautiful thing on that list is not a Billy Packer in sight

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Balefuego wrote: »
    The most beautiful thing on that list is not a Billy Packer in sight

    This is true. Not that Jim "When do The Masters start" Nantz and Clark "Remember that point I made 10 seconds ago, I'd like to make it again" Kellogg are great. But it is better than the Nantz/Packer we hate basketball routine.

    Raftery for #1 color guy!

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  • GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Wisconsin and Marquette get something called a Craig Bolerjack and a Dan Wenzel.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Gosling wrote: »
    Wisconsin and Marquette get something called a Craig Bolerjack and a Dan Wenzel.

    Competent if somewhat boring if I remember right.

    Nantz and Enberg are the two you want to avoid. Verne is starting to lose it but he and Raftery have excellent and highly entertaining chemistry.

    Though that blog disagreed last year.

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