March Madness?

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

    Is it me or is Michigan way too strong to be a No.7 seed? I know they started off the season poorly, but I see them punching well above their weight class.

It probably won't matter for long, as they're going up against Louisville in the Round of 32.

This is one of the most popular second round upsets however, since Louisville is not particularly deserving of a 2 seed. Of course, they are in the weakest region, so who knows how far they can go. Certainly better than Michigan but by how much?

My apologies lol.

lol, bout dang time something I said had a little bit of merit. Ain't no one was gonna trust a thing I say anymore after the first three days.

[Illiniwek]

Yeeeeee I love the Michigan upset. Good things are happening. I just wish St. Marys had pulled it off last night.

[LLR]

Both of my riskiest round of 32 picks - Xavier and Michigan winning - have worked so far. Too bad Villanova lost.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

So, this may just be selective memory, but does it always seem as if the SEC is rather terrible for most of the season (decent Big 12 challenge this year but didn't get respect for it) and truly deserving of few teams and with low seeds outside of Kentucky, but then shows up for the tournament? Good for them even if I don't often cheer for them, but I recall a few years back when UT, UK, and UF all went to the Final 8.

Arkansas playing this close with UNC, top two teams in the Final 16 already in quite strong fashion, SC with a great first win and has Duke in their own state tonight...maybe just a coincidence.

Oh, I guess Vandy lost but still. Gave the game away.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

The NCAA has a complete embarrassment on their hands at this point. Yet another game changing blown call, this one on video review.

[OSR stands with Israel]

I was close to having both my national championship game picks lose this round

[heatcharger]

The atmosphere of this South Carolina-Duke game in Greenville, SC is pretty insane. Duke can thank their former governor for this game not being in Greensboro, NC.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I LOVE YOU GOVERNOR PAT MCCRORY MORE THAN ANYONE IN 21ST CENTURY POLITICS

[100% pro-life no matter what]

The atmosphere of this South Carolina-Duke game in Greenville, SC is pretty insane. Duke can thank their former governor for this game not being in Greensboro, NC.

I still support Pat McCrory even though he killed my bracket!

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

My cheering guide the rest of the way:

Dream Status - 1. Wisconsin
Great! - 2. Xavier (Would be #1 but do not want them to usurp our lowest seed to win title )
Still Happy Results - 3. Arizona; 4. UNC; 5. Michigan; 6. Oregon; 7. Purdue;
Ugh, fine - 8. UCLA (ugh, Ball family pains...); 9. Kansas (Love KU, but too many behavior issues to cheer for); 10. South Carolina; 11. West Virginia
Would ruin Year - 12. Baylor; 13. Gonzaga; 14. Kentucky; 15. Florida; 16. Butler

But with Duke out, we have been saved from the worst case scenario of a comeback tale

[Pessimistic Antineutrino]

First time filling out a March Madness bracket (too bad I didn't see the Atlas pool tho). Doing pretty good so far, Duke just needs to not f it up.

Welp

[100% pro-life no matter what]

The good thing is that most people had Duke going into the Sweet 16, so that doesn't knock anyone out of contention.

Unless you picked them to win it all.  Maybe unless we get a true "out of left field champion".  My bracket went from being in great shape to pretty much dead over that second half!

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Assuming UCLA beats Cincinnati, here is my preference order:

1. Florida (I want to say that we beat the champs three times)
2. South Carolina (beating them once is OK, plus S-E-C...S-E-C)
3. Baylor (Scott Drew is Bryce Drew's brother)
4. Purdue (a solid program)
5. West Virginia (my joke "GOP Wins" bracket would actually win)
6. Michigan (nice story after the plane crash)
7. Butler (after seeing them come so close in 2010 and 2011)
8. Gonzaga (I would be more invested in them if they hadn't lost to BYU)
9. Xavier (a 11 seed winning it all would be something)
10. Arizona
11. Wisconsin
12. Oregon
13. Kansas
14. North Carolina
15. UCLA
16. Kentucky (#NeverKentucky)

[Pessimistic Antineutrino]

The good thing is that most people had Duke going into the Sweet 16, so that doesn't knock anyone out of contention.

Unless you picked them to win it all.  Maybe unless we get a true "out of left field champion".  My bracket went from being in great shape to pretty much dead over that second half!

Hello

[OSR stands with Israel]

Assuming UCLA beats Cincinnati, here is my preference order:

1. Florida (I want to say that we beat the champs three times)
2. South Carolina (beating them once is OK, plus S-E-C...S-E-C)
3. Baylor (Scott Drew is Bryce Drew's brother)
4. Purdue (a solid program)
5. West Virginia (my joke "GOP Wins" bracket would actually win)
6. Michigan (nice story after the plane crash)
7. Butler (after seeing them come so close in 2010 and 2011)
8. Gonzaga (I would be more invested in them if they hadn't lost to BYU)
9. Xavier (a 11 seed winning it all would be something)
10. Arizona
11. Wisconsin
12. Oregon
13. Kansas
14. North Carolina
15. UCLA
16. Kentucky (#NeverKentucky)

Here's my top 3 and bottom 3

1. Oregon
2. Xavier
3. Perdue


Bottom 3

1. Baylor
2. Kentucky
3 . Kansas

[Illiniwek]

I'll borrow this rating system:

Dream Status - 1. Michigan
Great! - 2. Gonzaga
Still Happy Results -  3. Xavier 4. Butler 5. Florida 6. UCLA 7. Oregon 8. Kansas (Just barely tho)
Ugh, fine - 9. South Carolina 10. West Virginia 11. Purdue 12. Kentucky
Would ruin Year - 13. Arizona 14. UNC 15. Baylor 16. Wisconsin

[LLR]

Now that UC's out, I'm cool with Kentucky, Butler or Xavier

[Donerail]

1. UNC (mom's school)
2. Purdue (dad's school)
3. USC (beat dook, should be karmically rewarded)
4. WVU (lot of family ties)
5. Wisconsin (Nigel Hayes is one of the best activists in college sports)
6. Michigan (nice post-crash story)
7. Arizona
8. Oregon
9. Gonzaga
10. Butler
11. Xavier
12. Kansas
13. UF
14. UCLA
15. Baylor
16. #NeverKentucky

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Oh, and the GREATEST CONFERENCE of all-time barely got one team in the Sweet 16 on a blown call?

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

rip georgetown so sad, worst catholic school. many tears

[OSR stands with Israel]

Come on Oregon

[Illiniwek]

Time for an update, with some shifting around:

Dream Status - none
Great! - 1a. Gonzaga 1b. Xavier
Still Happy Results -  3. Florida  4. Kansas 5. South Carolina
Ugh, fine - 6. Oregon 
Would ruin Year - 7. Kentucky 8. UNC

[Donerail]

Dream status: UNC
Great: USC
Still happy: Oregon, Xavier, Gonzaga
Ugh, fine: Florida
Would ruin year: Kansas, Kentucky

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Since I am in the Pacific, I have to go with the Zags since Bruins and Wildcats are out. But, Kentucky would be my third choice.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Oregon Wins !!!!!!