NCAA Tournament Competition

[mith]

Anyone up for it? I figure we can use the same scoring system as they use on espn (I think it's 320 per round divided up among the games, except for the final which is worth 240 [edit]nope, it's 120 for each of the semifinals and 160 for the final[/edit]). We can add in 5 points for the play-in game. Anyway, yeah, post or email your brackets (I'll put mine up tomorrow).

Bracket

[This message has been edited by mith (edited 03-17-2003 11:08 PM).]

[mith]

mith's bracket - I'll take Texas Southern in the 64/65 (they didn't bother with that on espn).

[This message has been edited by mith (edited 03-18-2003 09:59 AM).]

[Ghost Post]

Originally posted by (ESPN webpage, upon clicking mith's link):

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Error Page

Incorrect entry owner

Click here to go to the Men's Tournament Challenge frontpage

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It seems you can only view your own entry.


[This message has been edited by L'lanmal (edited 03-18-2003 09:54 AM).]

[mith]

Well that's silly. Maybe you just have to be logged in, I know I've looked at other people's entries on there.

[edit]Ok, print screen and such, it's there as a gif now.[/edit]

[This message has been edited by mith (edited 03-18-2003 10:00 AM).]

[Agamemnon]

When I try to log in as a new user, I get "service unavailable"
I'll give this a shot, but it don't want me to play.

And where are the Globetrotters?

Pah!

[Quailman]

I couldn't find the Grey Labyrinth group, so I created one. The password is mith.

[dethwing]

Deth's Picks

I followed a simple strategy since I had never heard of most of those teams. I picked the lower seeded one in all cases except when involving Cincinnati and Xavier.

[Quailman]

I would pick TSU in the 64/65 game. I listen to KTSU all the time. Great station!

[Agamemnon]

My head hurts here!
Where is said Grey Lab whatever thingy group?
How do I log into something that's not there?
Whats Basketball?

[mith]

I think I figured out why the brackets are unviewable; the tourney hasn't started, so they don't want us stealing other people's ideas.

Not sure where you're having the problem, Aga... details?

[Agamemnon]

Thanks for the help mith old chap.

I used the old 'Have-not-heard-of-any-of-these-so-I-mixed-the-sceedings-with-the-funny-names' malarky!

Aga's team

[mith]

Just in time for tip-off, here's my spreadsheet's bracket.

Shadowfax's Picks

(A couple years ago, I wrote a program on my calculator to make random picks, weighted solely on the seedings; a 1 seed had a 16/17 chance of beating a 16 seed, etc. It ended up with a really odd final, which happened to be my two "home" teams, Indiana and Tennessee. Neither of them got that far, of course, but it ended up being both myself and Omega. This year, I've used the colley ranking for the weighting, instead of just seeds (formula is IF(RAND()>(.5+R1-R2),T2,T1) where R is rating, T is team. Makes it a bit less random, but still some interesting results.)

(Oh, and it has UNC-Asheville for the play-in.)

(And Shadowfax is the name of my computer. Though, the windows partition is called Bill. I'm such a geek.)



[This message has been edited by mith (edited 03-18-2003 07:03 PM).]

[Qball]

Qball's picks


Well, here are mine for the throw in. Mine are not very special picks, except for St. Joe's as a Final Four.

[Qball]

Neither Deth's nor Aga's picks show up on my screen ... some kind of error. However, I can see mith's just fine.

[mith]

From the link here? That's 'cause I changed it to a gif that's on mafiascum. (If you can see it on espn, let me know, that would be weird. )

[Trojan Horse]

Too late for the play-in game, but here are my choices for the remaining games (it's pretty simple):

The 1-7 seeds and the 9 seeds advance to the second round.
The 1-3 seeds and the 5 seeds are in the Sweet 16.
The 1 and 3 seeds are in the Elite 8.
All four 1 seeds make it to the Final 4.
Kentucky plays Oklahoma for the title...
...and Oklahoma pulls it out, shocking the country.

[casinopete]

mine

pretty boring, really. haven't been following like I was last year (when I won both pools I was in ).

[dethwing]

I'm winning! Oh wait...we haven't started yet. Drat.

[Ghost Post]

I have brackets made out on paper, but ESPN's website is having none of me today. :-(

I'll type them out and post here after class.

[mith]

espn is screwy today, i think.

[Ghost Post]

I think it would be more interesting if you multiplied the points for picking correctly by the seeding of the team you picked How differently would you pick that?

I guess it would help if I knew something about the teams.

Midwest (Round of 32, winner bolded)
1 Kentucky
8 Oregon

5 Wisconsin
13 Tulsa

11 S. Illinois
3 Marquette

10 Alabama
2 Pitt
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Midwest finals:
1 Kentucky
2 Pitt
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West round of 32
1 Arizona
9 Gonzaga

5 Notre Dame
4 Illinois

6 Creighton
3 Duke

7 Memphis
2 Kansas
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1 Arizona
2 Kansas
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South round of 32
1 Texas
9 Purdue

5 UConn
4 Stanford

6 Maryland
3 Xavier

10 Colorado
2 Florida
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1 Texas
2 Florida
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East round of 32
1 Oklahoma
9 N.C. State

5 Miss. St.
4 Louisville

11 Penn
3 Syracuse

10 Auburn
2 Wake Forest
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1 Oklahoma
3 Syracuse
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Championship game:
Kentucky over Oklahoma

[mith]

Wow, those were two great shots. Cal beats NC St. in OT, 76-74.

Marquette has also won, and Gonzaga is about to.

[Agamemnon]

W00t!!!
GO ME!

[PuzzleProdigy]

*makes NIT brackets*

We're #66! We're #66!

[Agamemnon]

We're #66! We're #66!
Yay, GO US!!!
GO CELTICS!!!!


~scratches head~


So what's this all about then?

[dethwing]

Well, I'm winning at the moment, but i doubt that will last with Cinci out of the picture. I put 4 wins on them

[mith]

Well there goes one of my Elite 8 teams.

[casinopete]

Well, I seem to be 11-0 right now, soon to be 12-0 when Wisconsin crushes Webber St. I imagine that puts me in the lead.

(I just had to get my boasting in now, as I'm sure my fortunes will shortly change )

[Eykir]

Bah, those who have ESPN brackets should go join the Labyrinth so we can compare =)

[mith]

Hm? This thread was posted a day before yours. Feel free to post yours here.

[casinopete]

update none of you are interested in:

16-0
16-0
16-0

*dances*

16-0
16-0
16-0

*considers how bad the crash will be tomorrow*
*tells self to ignore anticipated crash*

16-0
16-0
16-0

[Qball]

Well, I lost 4 games, but none of the teams I lost I had going to the second round anyway.

[Agamemnon]

I still don't understand anything thats going on here.

[mith]

That's ok, Aga, I don't either, it seems.

(The NCAA is the national collegate atheletic association; this is the championship among (bigger) college basketball teams. There's also the NIT, which is basically the best teams that didn't make it to the NCAA tourney. Picking winners is a big deal or something because there's always a lot of upsets, and there's so many teams. Plus the games are fun to watch. )

[Agamemnon]

Thanks for that mith.

~still scratches head~

[mith]

Bah, stupid Maryland. I thought pete was ruined there for a minute.

[Eykir]

Two words: Poor Gonzaga

Damn, I was pulling for them, on the edge of my seat the entire two overtimes and last 5 minutes of regulation. I think their downfall was the poor shots on that last overtime possession. You only needed a 2, why go for a 3 =(

[mith]

I thought that last shot was going to go in for sure. Everyone was exhausted though, at the end of that. What a game.

[dethwing]

Well, there goes my final winner.

[casinopete]

muaha