cambridgeho Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Are we doing the brackets this year? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombo Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Yep ... give me a few minutes and I'll get it up! Zombo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombo Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 OK, the league is up, come one, come all! https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1/group/128509/invitation?key=1199a450530ad581&soc_trk=lnk NCAA TOURN BASKETBALL 2007 DakotaPhx 2008 EERSandBROWNS 2009 T. Couch 2010 Beanpot 2013 Greg 2014 MLD Woody 2015 Jeff (F Tucky) 2016 Beanpot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browns149 Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 I'm in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cambridgeho Posted March 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Awesome thanks man. I'm in as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tour2ma Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 In... but missed having to use Z's super-secret password... Naples, FL... happiest city in the USA two years running. Edit: ... and in record time, < 10 minutes, my Tourrific bracket is complete. I estimate I watched a grand total of maybe 15 minutes of college hoops this year, so I was unencumbered by information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombo Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Naples, FL... happiest city in the USA two years running. Getting happier by the minute. People who hate florida never spent any time in Naples. Zombo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tour2ma Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Getting happier by the minute. People who hate florida never spent any time in Naples. Soooooo..... if they hate Florida, they really hate Naples? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Getting happier by the minute. People who hate florida never spent any time in Naples. Zombo It IS the one place in FLA that we want to go sometime. But it is on my wife's list...so not sure when we get there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombo Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Soooooo..... if they hate Florida, they really hate Naples? Hopefully if they hate Florida they never make it to Naples. We're full. (Unless you want to buy a house from me, then by all means ...) Zombo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tour2ma Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 lol... I'll go this far.... if I ever did buy a house in Naples... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjp28 Posted March 14, 2017 Report Share Posted March 14, 2017 Getting happier by the minute. People who hate florida never spent any time in Naples. Zombo Sanibel is nice to visit but Naples/Marco Island is where it's nice to stay. And I'm in brackets here baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted March 14, 2017 Report Share Posted March 14, 2017 Sanibel is nice to visit but Naples/Marco Island is where it's nice to stay. And I'm in brackets here baby. The timeshare I own in Las Vegas is at the Polo Towers....so someday I may trade my Polo for Marco. I look forward to my time in the pool there and to play the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark O Posted March 14, 2017 Report Share Posted March 14, 2017 I'm in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumby73 Posted March 15, 2017 Report Share Posted March 15, 2017 I'm in would you like the confidence pick bracket? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjp28 Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 I'm in 15 players in so far in The BROWNS BOARD Tournament with the deadline before game 1 Thursday March 16, 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tour2ma Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 I don't get these "First Four" play-in games for anything, but a 16th seed. Having two teams play for an 11 doesn't seem right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 I don't get these "First Four" play-in games for anything, but a 16th seed. Having two teams play for an 11 doesn't seem right. Actually...it makes great sense. You have 4 "Play-in" games involving 8 teams. The committee actually designates 6 "16 seeds". These are Automatic Qualifiers from the smaller conferences. The lowest 4 of those 6 play off to see which two move on to play the #1 seeds. Then....after all the Automatic Qualifiers are designated, you know that the Committee then selects like 36 "At Large teams", teams that have not won their conference tourneys. So then what they do is they take the "Last Four in" of these teams and they have them play off. They are really the last teams picked to play in the tourney....and they have no real cause to complain because they are just lucky to have been selected to participate. Ergo, these 4 "play in" as well. Usually they end up with like an 11 seed. So...to me, it does seem right that the last 4 team selected have to undergo a bit more of a challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tour2ma Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 If the objective is to end up with the best 64 in the country, having two 11's play for the right to be one of those 64 guarantees that you will fail to meet your objective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 If the objective is to end up with the best 64 in the country, having two 11's play for the right to be one of those 64 guarantees that you will fail to meet your objective. That is NOT the objective. The objective is to have 36 leagues with their automatic qualifiers participate where then that is whittled down to 34 with two of them eliminated in the "First Four" round; then to select the next 32 best at large teams and to eliminate 2 of them in that First round. Thus...the objective is to have 34 AQ's plus 30 at large teams make up the Round of 64. If they wanted the best 64...then about 15-20 leagues would have no participants in the tourney. And that is not what they want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 Princeton gave Notre Dame all it can handle. Lost by only 60-58. UNC Wilmington giving Virginia all it can handle. Only a 3 pt. game with about 5 minutes left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjp28 Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 I don't get these "First Four" play-in games for anything, but a 16th seed. Having two teams play for an 11 doesn't seem right.I agree it's like adding extra wild card games, 64 should be enough. (and there's always the NIT) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tour2ma Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 I agree it's like adding extra wild card games, 64 should be enough. (and there's always the NIT) lol... Is the NIT still a thing? Sigh... I can remember when it was a big thing. As for the NCAA... all about the $$$. First it was one, play-in game... now four... and there was talk of more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjp28 Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 lol... Is the NIT still a thing? Sigh... I can remember when it was a big thing. As for the NCAA... all about the $$$. First it was one, play-in game... now four... and there was talk of more. Some people must want to kill this now NCAA "cash cow" I've heard talk of up to 128 teams....that should eliminate a lot of casual fans and pick 'ems. Oh yeah the NIT used to be the big tournament at one time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjp28 Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 Check out some of these NIT names: FIRST ROUND DATE TIME (ET) TV MATCHUP March 14 7 p.m. ESPN No. 2 Illinois 82, No. 7 Valparaiso 57 March 14 7:15 p.m. ESPN2 No. 5 Mississippi 91, No. 4 Monmouth 83 March 14 8 p.m. ESPNU No. 7 Oakland 74, No. 2 Clemson 69 March 14 9 p.m. ESPN3 No. 4 Colorado State 81, No. 5 Charleston 74 March 14 9 p.m. ESPN No. 6 Georgia Tech 75, No. 3 Indiana 63 March 14 9:15 p.m. ESPN2 No. 6 Richmond 71, No. 3 Alabama 64 March 14 10 p.m. ESPNU No. 6 Boise State 73, No. 3 Utah 68 March 14 11:15 p.m. ESPN2 No. 8 CSU Bakersfield 73, No. 1 California 66 March 15 7 p.m. ESPN2 No. 1 Syracuse 90, No. 8 UNCG 77 March 15 7 p.m. ESPN3 No. 7 Belmont 78, No. 2 Georgia 69 March 15 7 p.m. ESPN3 No. 4 UCF 79, No. 5 Colorado 74 March 15 7:30 p.m. ESPNU No. 7 Akron 78, No. 2 Houston 75 March 15 8 p.m. ESPN3 No. 4 TCU 66, No. 5 Fresno State 59 March 15 9 p.m. ESPN2 No. 1 Iowa 87, No. 8 South Dakota 75 March 15 9:30 p.m. ESPNU No. 1 Illinois State 85, No. 8 UC Irvine 71 March 15 11 p.m. ESPN2 No. 6 UT Arlington 105, No. 3 BYU 85 SECOND ROUND DATE TIME (ET) TV MATCHUP March 18 11 a.m. ESPN No. 1 Syracuse vs. No. 5 Mississippi March 19 Noon ESPN No. 6 Georgia Tech vs. No. 7 Belmont March 19 5 p.m. ESPN2 No. 1 Iowa vs. No. 4 TCU March 19 7:30 p.m. ESPNU No. 6 Richmond vs. No. 7 Oakland March 20 7 p.m. ESPN No. 1 Illinois State vs. No. 4 UCF March 20 8 p.m. ESPNU No. 6 UT Arlington vs. No. 7 Akron March 20 9 p.m. ESPN No. 2 Illinois vs. No. 6 Boise State March 20 11 p.m. ESPN2 No. 4 Colorado State vs. No. 8 CSU Bakersfield FINAL (AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN) DATE TIME (ET) TV MATCHUP March 30 TBA TBA TBA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 lol... Is the NIT still a thing? Sigh... I can remember when it was a big thing. As for the NCAA... all about the $$$. First it was one, play-in game... now four... and there was talk of more. Akron U beat Houston in the NIT last night....in Texas. Now they have to stay in Texas to play UT-Arlington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 Butler beats Winthrop Gonzaga beats South Dakota St. Both games won handily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjp28 Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 Akron U beat Houston in the NIT last night....in Texas. Now they have to stay in Texas to play UT-Arlington. Good for them, check out some of the former NCAA perenienal teams in the NIT this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 West by God Virginia beats Bucknell. No upsets thus far. Though Minnesota is behind Middle Tenn St. at halftime. Minn. is a 5 seed, MTSU a 12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjp28 Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 Woo-hoo the first 8 very early games: 1 mjp #1 baby 8 192 1 Zombomania 8 192 1 Greg 916 8 192 ....but the big points are later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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