March Madness (Page 4)

I wonder if he is a big Duke supporter?!?!

OK, maybe not, but this was a wacky seeding year by the committee. I said it earlier and I'll say it again, Wichita State had an impossible path to get to the end. All of the schools mentioned above were not where they should have been. But this year was a crapshoot to begin with, so there was no way the committee was going to get it "right". Besides, where is the fun in that?

I hope you're right......but all season I've waited for the team with 5 McDonald All-Americans to get on track, and they may be there.  You just never know with a young team.   I would say nobody is too excited to play KU right now.

It's pretty cool.....but is there ANYONE in the world who had UConn and Kentucky?  Wow!!

I don't know.....KU hasn't been steamrolling anyone.  If you can't make it from the bracket you're in then you're not good enough to go, right?  I think there are easily 10 teams that WSU would have had trouble with.

11 million + brackets done on ESPN and out of that less then 1800 had this matchup. Statistically, not a popular selection!

That's waaaay more than I would have thought.  Who the hell picks an 8 v. 7 for the final?

Someone with bigger stones than I, that's for sure!  We didn't bother watching the last couple of games, and when I saw who was left, I actually turned to my wife and said "No one has that matchup, no way, no how."  Talk about keeping Buffet's money safe 

Yeah, I'm OK with that......otherwise the winner of the next 3 NCAA tournaments would be locked up. 

This guy did.  And then forgot to pick a winner and lost out on the $100,000 consolation prize.  

poor guy

True...I would have expected less than 100.  But when you consider that UConn and Kentucky are not your typical 7 and 8 seed, have huge fan bases, and have won national championships recently...maybe it makes more sense.  There are more UConn and Kentucky homers out there than most other schools.

I would bet that there was less than 1800 people who picked say VCU and St. Louis in the finals despite them being a 5 and 4 seed respectively.

The tournament is always good, but I have to say, this year?  Not going down in the memory banks as one of the better ones.  I don't know.  Just felt a little bored throughout.

I know people SAY they like a good underdog story.  Yeah, maybe for one game.  But honestly?  We like to see the big dogs fight it out in the final four.  An underdog is cool for the moment, like a Mercer over Duke, but the game after that?  Usually a snooze-fest.  Tenn over Mercer by 20.  Upsets are novel, but I would rather see the big boys play.

I don't even get how a 7 vs 8 is the finals.  Poor seeding, IMO.  The shockers got screwed (and so would any #1 if Kentucky us supposed to be an 8).

I think KU, or any team starting 5 Freshman McDonald All-Americans is a wild card.  That team was ranked 1 or 2 preseason and then lost 8 games....which typically gets you and 8 or 9 seed.  They started playing as a team and not 5 wild horses by the time the SEC tourney came around, but the seedings are pretty set by then.  If anything, Louisville as a 4 seed was ridiculous, and screwed the whole region, and WSU got it the worst.

UConn was another team that finally put it together.......hell, they lost to Louisville by 33 earlier in the season.  Go figure.

So now U Conn doubled up after the women gave ND a beat down. Pretty cool feat when you think about it. I thought ND would put up a better game. Pretty much buttons up Geno as one of the all time greatest coaches, although I think he should be more recognized as one of the all time greatest recruiters. His teams have steamrolled in the past, but they are clearly head and shoulders above others from a talent perspective.

Nice.

Did you enter the billion dollar challenge?  Just wondering where you placed even though you didn't have the overall winner.  I'm sure there were thousands of UCONN homers that picked them to win the whole thing, but not many with 3 out of the final 4.