March Madness and bracket pool

[Treeshepherd]

If the past is any indication, I will fail in this attempt to organize a USMB sports pool. I'll never quit trying, though. Details in post #2.

Regardless, Selection Sunday is the 15th, the Ides of March. Talk about it...

Who to root for? Stanford could punch a ticket by beating WU and Utah this week. Other than that, I don't see any NorCal representatives. I'll have to root for Oregon and adopt a Cinderella team. Do you have a dog in the fight, or a Cat (Villanova, Arizona)?

Can anybody beat Kentucky? Wisconsin is playing well. Virginia is huge. Duke is Duke.

 

[Treeshepherd]

USMB Bracket Pool

simple; wait for Selection Sunday. Look at the bracket. 2015 NCAA Division I Men s Basketball Tournament Bracket - March Madness Bracket NCAA.com
Pick one team from each seed. Obviously, that's 16 teams that you would pick. Post them in this thread.

[For example, for your #7 seed you might have a choice between San Diego State, Witchita State, St. Johns and
Michigan State.]

You get a point for every victory. Easy.

 

[mdk]

I am down. What is one more bracket considering I usually do 3 or 4 anyways. Last year I was in Vegas during March Madness, it was glorious.

 

[Sonny Clark]

If the past is any indication, I will fail in this attempt to organize a USMB sports pool. I'll never quit trying, though. Details in post #2.

Regardless, Selection Sunday is the 15th, the Ides of March. Talk about it...

Who to root for? Stanford could punch a ticket by beating WU and Utah this week. Other than that, I don't see any NorCal representatives. I'll have to root for Oregon and adopt a Cinderella team. Do you have a dog in the fight, or a Cat (Villanova, Arizona)?

Can anybody beat Kentucky? Wisconsin is playing well. Virginia is huge. Duke is Duke.

Count me in.

 

[Papageorgio]

Sounds like some fun.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

If the past is any indication, I will fail in this attempt to organize a USMB sports pool. I'll never quit trying, though. Details in post #2.

Regardless, Selection Sunday is the 15th, the Ides of March. Talk about it...

Who to root for? Stanford could punch a ticket by beating WU and Utah this week. Other than that, I don't see any NorCal representatives. I'll have to root for Oregon and adopt a Cinderella team. Do you have a dog in the fight, or a Cat (Villanova, Arizona)?

Can anybody beat Kentucky? Wisconsin is playing well. Virginia is huge. Duke is Duke.

Count me in.

Alabama fan eh? May be the only damn thing you win in March


WOO PIG SOOEIIII

 

[Nutz]

.Count me in.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

Dot Com how about you little buddy you gonna get in on this?

 

[Sonny Clark]

If the past is any indication, I will fail in this attempt to organize a USMB sports pool. I'll never quit trying, though. Details in post #2.

Regardless, Selection Sunday is the 15th, the Ides of March. Talk about it...

Who to root for? Stanford could punch a ticket by beating WU and Utah this week. Other than that, I don't see any NorCal representatives. I'll have to root for Oregon and adopt a Cinderella team. Do you have a dog in the fight, or a Cat (Villanova, Arizona)?

Can anybody beat Kentucky? Wisconsin is playing well. Virginia is huge. Duke is Duke.

Count me in.

Alabama fan eh? May be the only damn thing you win in March


WOO PIG SOOEIIII

Alabama will probably go to the NIT, not the big dance. They play Florida at 1:00 today.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

If the past is any indication, I will fail in this attempt to organize a USMB sports pool. I'll never quit trying, though. Details in post #2.

Regardless, Selection Sunday is the 15th, the Ides of March. Talk about it...

Who to root for? Stanford could punch a ticket by beating WU and Utah this week. Other than that, I don't see any NorCal representatives. I'll have to root for Oregon and adopt a Cinderella team. Do you have a dog in the fight, or a Cat (Villanova, Arizona)?

Can anybody beat Kentucky? Wisconsin is playing well. Virginia is huge. Duke is Duke.

Count me in.

Alabama fan eh? May be the only damn thing you win in March


WOO PIG SOOEIIII

Alabama will probably go to the NIT, not the big dance. They play Florida at 1:00 today.

Been a minute since I could brag about Razorback basketball. I don't know that we're a contender this year, but we could put a hurt on someone who is.

 

[Sonny Clark]

If the past is any indication, I will fail in this attempt to organize a USMB sports pool. I'll never quit trying, though. Details in post #2.

Regardless, Selection Sunday is the 15th, the Ides of March. Talk about it...

Who to root for? Stanford could punch a ticket by beating WU and Utah this week. Other than that, I don't see any NorCal representatives. I'll have to root for Oregon and adopt a Cinderella team. Do you have a dog in the fight, or a Cat (Villanova, Arizona)?

Can anybody beat Kentucky? Wisconsin is playing well. Virginia is huge. Duke is Duke.

Count me in.

Alabama fan eh? May be the only damn thing you win in March


WOO PIG SOOEIIII

Alabama will probably go to the NIT, not the big dance. They play Florida at 1:00 today.

Been a minute since I could brag about Razorback basketball. I don't know that we're a contender this year, but we could put a hurt on someone who is.

They have a damn good team this year. I wish them luck. I'll be rooting for them in the big dance. I'm for any SEC team that makes it.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

If the past is any indication, I will fail in this attempt to organize a USMB sports pool. I'll never quit trying, though. Details in post #2.

Regardless, Selection Sunday is the 15th, the Ides of March. Talk about it...

Who to root for? Stanford could punch a ticket by beating WU and Utah this week. Other than that, I don't see any NorCal representatives. I'll have to root for Oregon and adopt a Cinderella team. Do you have a dog in the fight, or a Cat (Villanova, Arizona)?

Can anybody beat Kentucky? Wisconsin is playing well. Virginia is huge. Duke is Duke.

Count me in.

Alabama fan eh? May be the only damn thing you win in March


WOO PIG SOOEIIII

Alabama will probably go to the NIT, not the big dance. They play Florida at 1:00 today.

Been a minute since I could brag about Razorback basketball. I don't know that we're a contender this year, but we could put a hurt on someone who is.

They have a damn good team this year. I wish them luck. I'll be rooting for them in the big dance. I'm for any SEC team that makes it.

I am to. The further the SEC goes, the better we look

 

[Treeshepherd]

The tournament field is set.
NCAA Brackets 2015 - CBSSports.com

Let the USMB March Madness Pool begin. Details are in post #2 of this thread.
Deadline for entry is game-time Thursday morning. However, if you want a chance to earn a point or two in the play-in games, you've got to select those teams before they play on Tuesday and Wednesday.

 

[Treeshepherd]

Here are my teams. I reserve the right to edit this list before game time.

1. Wisconsin
2. Gonzaga
3. Notre Dame
4. Maryland
5. Utah
6. Providence
7. Wichita State
8. Oregon
9. St. John's
10. Davidson
11. BYU
12. Buffalo
13. UC Irvine
14. Georgia State
15. Texas Southern
16. North Florida

 

[Sonny Clark]

Here are my 16 teams as of now.

(1) Purdue
(2) West Virginia
(3) Butler
(4) Indiana
(5) Wisconsin
(6) UNC
(7) Xavier
(8) Arizona
(9) Villanova
(10) Louisville
(11) Providence
(12) Michigan
(13) Duke
(14) Georgetown
(15) UCLA
(16) Iowa

 

[Treeshepherd]

1) Purdue
(2) West Virginia
(3) Butler
(4) Indiana
(5) Wisconsin
(6) UNC
(7) Xavier
(8) Arizona
(9) Villanova
(10) Louisville
(11) Providence
(12) Michigan
(13) Duke
(14) Georgetown
(15) UCLA
(16) Iowa

You have to pick one team from each seed. So, you'll choose a single #1 seed between Duke, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Villanova. Then you choose one of the #2 seeds (Arizona, Kansas, Gonzaga and Virginia. And so on.

 

[Nutz]

Why don't we just do a bracket?

 

[Treeshepherd]

Why don't we just do a bracket?

I would have liked to do a whole bracket.

But, I have very little confidence in the willingness of USMBs sports fans to do anything organized, especially something that a relative newbie initiated. I made the pool as simple as possible, without having to use an outside website.

Any thoughts on the tournament? Can anyone beat Kentucky?

 

[Papageorgio]

Why don't we just do a bracket?

I would have liked to do a whole bracket.

But, I have very little confidence in the willingness of USMBs sports fans to do anything organized, especially something that a relative newbie initiated. I made the pool as simple as possible, without having to use an outside website.

Any thoughts on the tournament? Can anyone beat Kentucky?

You didn't pick them

 

[Treeshepherd]

You didn't pick them

No, I'm wishfully thinking that Notre Dame is going to beat Kentucky.

Anyway, if we did a whole bracket someone who hasn't watched a game all year might come along and just pick the favorites in every game and probably win. With this scheme you have to make tough choices.