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The afternoon’s basketball was pretty wow. I think there are a lot of Points Already Lost around here. A lot. This year, unlike in previous (boring) years, if you picked straight chalk (which I think means picking the higher seeded team always), you would be doing horribly!
Standings:
mim: 35
SpeK, Yut, POTUS: 33
CT, Pol: [...]
I. Cannot. Believe. This. My goodness, when Georgetown lost, I thought that was bracket-busting craziness. But today, well! First Villanova fell, then Kansas fell — Kansas, the overall number one ranked team in the country. Sheesh.
I think that the first round of March Madness is some of the best basketball every year. Ok I admit I know nothing about basketball — hence this pool, so the bar is not high, but WHATEVS!
Check out the scores — I’ve added the President into our pool, by request, alas not by Obama:
Rankings:
mim, [...]
Okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but I love how many upsets there were. Sixteen games were played, five double digit ranked teams are still left. (Complete non sequitur but that doesn’t sound right… double digitally ranked teams? Or switch it all around and just say five teams ranked in the double digits [...]
Here they are, the brackets:
Firstly, mine:
Maryland all the way! I didn’t pick ‘em in 2002 and I regretted it! Not this time!
CT: Kentucky — she didn’t discuss her strategy with me again this year, but she did specify that she’s going to win and she wants earrings.
Lew: also Kentucky! And he also [...]
Thanks to the six of you who already submitted brackets. The rest of you, get moving!
And in case you need some help:
How cute is that?!
If this has clarified your thinking, you can submit (and I suppose resubmit) your bracket until 9:15am PST or 12:15 noon EST when the first game starts. I kept [...]
So the Know-Nothing No Downside Not-Too-Much Upside March Madness Thingie is BACK, starting as of yesterday. In fact, it’s the Fifth Anniversary! Hopefully, you’ve all received your blank brackets, but if you haven’t, it’s cos I am disorganized, not cos I don’t want you to play! So mail me (mim at this [...]
DOOOOOOD, it was Selection Sunday. As in the day that the tournament teams are picked! So you know what that means — it’s time to randomly pick winners, lots and lots of winners! Enough winners to beat the defending champion, YB!
So yeah, I’m sending out the brackets to everyone who has ever [...]
So you know how I like to complain about rain and bad weather? And wet pants and wet socks and wet shoes and etcetcetc? So I bought myself a pair of clompy clown-shoe wellies and solved that. Except today I didn’t check the weather report — it was cloudy-ish but not cold [...]
I don’t even remember what we were talking about, but I said something or other, and Yut called me a big nerd! To which I replied that I was not! (It was a v. mature conversation between two adults, I assure you.)
But he insisted that I was, anyone would agree! And I [...]
