*** 2014 NCAA Tournament Thread

[dbk]

Dakota!!!

 

[KLin]

TJ Warren.. beastly fail

missing that last FT

 

[KeithTalent]

Sucks, two of my upsets gave their games away late and went to OT. Crappy.

KT

 

[release213]

After North Dakota State beating Oklahoma as well as other upsets today, is there anyone in the world still with an unbusted bracket? I highly doubt it

 

[raasco]

Looks like I'll be pulling up the rear in both cbs and yahoo.

 

[lupi]

For some reason my at group bracket is blank while my national one has all my picks. Haven't figure out yet how to import the national one into the private group.

 

[ultimatebob]

Man... I know that I should have picked North Dakota State as an upset. The rest of my bracket looks pretty solid so far, though.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

After North Dakota State beating Oklahoma as well as other upsets today, is there anyone in the world still with an unbusted bracket? I highly doubt it

Plenty. 12 over 5 games are trendy picks, almost everyone picks a couple of them. ALL these people are perfect through day 1

http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2014/en/leaderboard

 

[cronos]

I only missed two picks on the first day (probably the best first day ever for me as far as I can recall). Picked the correct 5-12 upsets. The two that I missed was because I went crazy and picked a 2-15 upset (Milwaukee-Villanova) which of course was way off, and the other one was Ohio State. Damn you Buckeyes!

 

[NoTine42]

I barely payed attention to College BBall this year.

Wichita State = #1 seed?

Can someone please explain this wizardry to me? Some sort of Calipari-esque shenanigans?

I'm sure its like any other FF team.
Last year was more obvious for the Shockers with Oregon transfer Armstead that "paid his own way" for his prior sit out year. And they landed the #1 juco in the nation, Early.

This year is a continuation that also shows some crazy luck. Bruce Weber didn't bother recruiting the best point guard in Illinois to UIUC, VanVleet, and no one bothered recruiting a high school quarterback, Baker, to play basketball.

 

[KeithTalent]

Let's go Mercer!

KT

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Let's go Mercer!

KT

Now that would bust about 98% of the remaining perfect brackets.

 

[zinfamous]

UConn game and this St Louis game.. oh my goodness!

that was an NC State game! +

 

[KeithTalent]

Now that would bust about 98% of the remaining perfect brackets.

No kidding. Up by 4 with just over a minute left!

KT

Edit: by 5 with one minute left!

 

[Imported]

Picked Duke, but go Mercer! Hate Duke. lol

 

[release213]

Go Mercer! I hate Duke too

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Let's go ucla!

 

[lupi]

Just checked scoreboard for the first time, only a couple seconds left and duke losing..wow.

This and yesterday should about wrap up the billion challenge..

 

[release213]

Billion dollar challenge busted in the first 2 days!

Just kidding. I think there are still a number of people who had Mercer winning

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Billion dollar challenge busted in the first 2 days!
Is there anyone who would have a perfect bracket after this?

Yep. This will have reduced it by a shitload, but there will still be a lot of perfect brackets. So many are filled out than on pure numbers alone many people will go 32-for-32 over the first two days. Let a billion retarded monkeys flip coins for every game and some will be perfect this far.

Still more than 100 perfect on ESPN alone.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Mercer with the bracket buster.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Whelp...

Back in November I placed a $100 bet with a coworker that Kansas would not make it to the final four. Combine that with the 20 dollar pool at work where I had Duke in the final, yeah this is going to be a stellar year.

 

[Imported]

Yep. This will have reduced it by a shitload, but there will still be a lot of perfect brackets. So many are filled out than on pure numbers alone many people will go 32-for-32 over the first two days. Let a billion retarded monkeys flip coins for every game and some will be perfect this far.

Still more than 100 perfect on ESPN alone.

I think I read somewhere that there's only been one perfect bracket after the first round in the past 7 years.

 

[Imported]

Whelp...

Back in November I placed a $100 bet with a coworker that Kansas would not make it to the final four. Combine that with the 20 dollar pool at work where I had Duke in the final, yeah this is going to be a stellar year.

I put $100 down on Wisconsin to win it all last time I was in Vegas. Odds were 25/1.

 

[KeithTalent]

After #Mercer won, there are 2185 perfect brackets remaining on ESPN. Com out of 11 million.

Not bad.

KT