Finally out of the conference room! Time to make a drink, catch up with the 21 brackets still to be entered and finally update the scoring for everyone. Not sure how long it'll take, but probably less than an hour.
If you want to know something immediately, shoot me an email.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
And, we're off...
I can't stand Jim Nantz. He did, however get a call VERY right towards the end of regulation of the first game... as the game-tying 3 fell thru the net, he said "and March Madness is underway!"
I also can't stand that we have to go through the process of 4 play-in games (great blog-rant here), it is pretty sweet that we're treated to an overtime game in the first 16 vs 16 matchup between Ark-Little Rock and UNC-Asheville!
68 early entries. 46 picked UNC Asheville correctly. I'm not posting new scores until after tomorrow's games - you can check your own brackets.
If you haven't sent 'em in yet, make sure you get 'em in by tip-time on Thursday!
*edit* For what its worth, 41 people correclty picked Clemson.
I also can't stand that we have to go through the process of 4 play-in games (great blog-rant here), it is pretty sweet that we're treated to an overtime game in the first 16 vs 16 matchup between Ark-Little Rock and UNC-Asheville!
68 early entries. 46 picked UNC Asheville correctly. I'm not posting new scores until after tomorrow's games - you can check your own brackets.
If you haven't sent 'em in yet, make sure you get 'em in by tip-time on Thursday!
*edit* For what its worth, 41 people correclty picked Clemson.
Blind Picks
Ran across a cool thing while browsing this morning's sports headlines on www.quickish.com (check it out - its awesome). The Wall Street Journal has linked to a site that eliminates all ranks, records and team names, and has you pick based on an estimation of their RPI, NCAA seed, conference strength and four team strengths and weaknesses. I did a bracket of my own "MCK Blind Picks" for the pool this year. Interesting stuff.
Here's the site: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/
Here's how mine turned out:
Welcome Back!
Its that magical time of year again keep checking in here for commentary and any pool-related news.
If you haven't received a reply to your bracket submission yet, don't sweat it. I have about 30-40 brackets in my inbox from last night alone and won't get around to inputting them until later this afternoon after I arrive in lovely Burlington, IA. I was planning to do it here at work this morning until I sat down to find an email from Management explicitly instructing us NOT to do any pool-related activities on government property. While I love the pool, it's probably not worth losing a job over. I'll get them all in by tipoff tonight.
Happy Basketballing!
- Posted from Matt's iPhone.
If you haven't received a reply to your bracket submission yet, don't sweat it. I have about 30-40 brackets in my inbox from last night alone and won't get around to inputting them until later this afternoon after I arrive in lovely Burlington, IA. I was planning to do it here at work this morning until I sat down to find an email from Management explicitly instructing us NOT to do any pool-related activities on government property. While I love the pool, it's probably not worth losing a job over. I'll get them all in by tipoff tonight.
Happy Basketballing!
- Posted from Matt's iPhone.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Final Scores
Hey there... sorry I've been absent for the final four and championship game. Between the results being set in stone and me being in DC for vacation, I had completely checked out on updating the pool. Results will be posted within 10 or 15 minutes of this post going up.
Congrats to this year's winners and lets hope the NCAA doesn't do something stupid and expand this to 96 teams. On top of being a generally dumb decision and an obvious money-grab, it would be a nightmare for me to redo my spreadsheet.
See you next March!!!
Congrats to this year's winners and lets hope the NCAA doesn't do something stupid and expand this to 96 teams. On top of being a generally dumb decision and an obvious money-grab, it would be a nightmare for me to redo my spreadsheet.
See you next March!!!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
2010 Pool Wraps Up Today
I'm fairly certain that the results of this year's edition of the Upset Pool rests with the result of the Duke vs Baylor game. If Baylor wins, the standings should remain the same. If not, Scot will win and Josh should take 3rd.
Go Baylor!
Go Baylor!
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Grey's Anatomy
Apparently, on Thursdays @ 8, we have 2 shows recording. Neither are the NCAA tournament. Since our awesome TimeWarner service is only capable of handling 2 feeds, the cable box changed the channel from 'Cuse vs Butler w/ 1:35 to go over to &(*#ing Grey's Anatomy. Some quick hustle to the bedroom and I was able to catch the last :34 seconds.
Phew.
I should apologize to Wes Johnson. If you're not aware, I'm an Iowa State guy and so was Wes, until he transferred to 'Cuse. I don't begrudge him for it. He was a sophomore and the coach that brought him in just got canned. But anyway, I should apologize, 'cause my picks have all gone south this year. After KU went down, I hitched my wagon to Mr. Johnson, Boeheim & the rest of the Orange(men). Whoops.
14 people just lost their champion. Out of 125+ entries, only 41 people have a champion remaining.
Oh, and only 3 picked Butler. Nice work, Colonel McKeown, Bryan Baudler & Janie!
Phew.
I should apologize to Wes Johnson. If you're not aware, I'm an Iowa State guy and so was Wes, until he transferred to 'Cuse. I don't begrudge him for it. He was a sophomore and the coach that brought him in just got canned. But anyway, I should apologize, 'cause my picks have all gone south this year. After KU went down, I hitched my wagon to Mr. Johnson, Boeheim & the rest of the Orange(men). Whoops.
14 people just lost their champion. Out of 125+ entries, only 41 people have a champion remaining.
Oh, and only 3 picked Butler. Nice work, Colonel McKeown, Bryan Baudler & Janie!
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