March Madness & NCAA Bracket Pick 'em

BahamaBreeze · Post by **BahamaBreeze** » March 26, 2006 10:29 pm

Had to step away from the game...UGA Lady dogs are falling apart and I am scaring our little dog yelling at the TV.

'Destiny is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it's a thing to be achieved.'
William Bryan Jennings

So with this in mind, does GMU win it all?

I say LSU takes it.....

markruble · Post by **markruble** » March 26, 2006 11:04 pm

I'm officially done on the ESPN brackets. I have none of the final 4.

Who knew Duke and UConn would get eliminated? Looking at the rankings, no number 1 ranked team is still around. This year being ranked #1 was a kiss of death. My final score on ESPN is 620 points, 72.6% overall and ranked 723626. Oh well no $10,000 cash or no giant screen TV.

markruble · Post by **markruble** » March 26, 2006 11:11 pm

So with whats left who will advance? I'm making a wild guess but I like LSU and George Mason. If it comes down to these two I'll be cheering for George Mason, however I think LSU will win.

MelliJellyBean · Post by **MelliJellyBean** » March 27, 2006 6:32 am

I say UCLA will advance. It's hard to tell how GMU will match up Florida. Beating UCONN was very impressive and I guess this George Mason team is for real! Who would've guessed? I sure didn't.

tequilatom · Post by **tequilatom** » March 27, 2006 7:04 am

markruble wrote:I'm officially done on the ESPN brackets. I have none of the final 4. Who knew Duke and UConn would get eliminated? Looking at the rankings, no number 1 ranked team is still around. This year being ranked #1 was a kiss of death. My final score on ESPN is 620 points, 72.6% overall and ranked 723626. Oh well no $10,000 cash or no giant screen TV.

i heard on ESPN that 4 people picked the final 4!!!........it couldn't of been basketball fans...unless they went to the school.......but even then......i don't know a person that had George Mason!!!

BahamaBreeze · Post by **BahamaBreeze** » March 27, 2006 7:32 am

tequilatom wrote:
markruble wrote:I'm officially done on the ESPN brackets. I have none of the final 4. Who knew Duke and UConn would get eliminated? Looking at the rankings, no number 1 ranked team is still around. This year being ranked #1 was a kiss of death. My final score on ESPN is 620 points, 72.6% overall and ranked 723626. Oh well no $10,000 cash or no giant screen TV.
i heard on ESPN that 4 people picked the final 4!!!........it couldn't of been basketball fans...unless they went to the school.......but even then......i don't know a person that had George Mason!!!

On Yahoo, only 1 guy got the final 4 right but..

according to that 0.0 pecent of people pick GMU in the finals but all of the sudden there are people with them.... Cheaters. Also Florida and LSU were like .2 percent of people and now look how many have them.... This stuff is so rigged.

MelliJellyBean · Post by **MelliJellyBean** » March 27, 2006 8:06 am

BahamaBreeze wrote:
tequilatom wrote:
markruble wrote:I'm officially done on the ESPN brackets. I have none of the final 4. Who knew Duke and UConn would get eliminated? Looking at the rankings, no number 1 ranked team is still around. This year being ranked #1 was a kiss of death. My final score on ESPN is 620 points, 72.6% overall and ranked 723626. Oh well no $10,000 cash or no giant screen TV.
i heard on ESPN that 4 people picked the final 4!!!........it couldn't of been basketball fans...unless they went to the school.......but even then......i don't know a person that had George Mason!!!
On Yahoo, only 1 guy got the final 4 right but..
according to that 0.0 pecent of people pick GMU in the finals but all of the sudden there are people with them.... Cheaters. Also Florida and LSU were like .2 percent of people and now look how many have them.... This stuff is so rigged.

Ya I saw that - that one guy had picked the perfect final 4 on yahoo, but I don't see how that's possible.

I think only very optimistic GMU fans would've picked that kind of finish and even so, that's a very small school with a small fan base in basketball. I don't even think half of their students knew they had a basketball team!

BahamaBreeze · Post by **BahamaBreeze** » March 27, 2006 8:08 am

MelliJellyBean wrote:
BahamaBreeze wrote:
tequilatom wrote:
markruble wrote:I'm officially done on the ESPN brackets. I have none of the final 4. Who knew Duke and UConn would get eliminated? Looking at the rankings, no number 1 ranked team is still around. This year being ranked #1 was a kiss of death. My final score on ESPN is 620 points, 72.6% overall and ranked 723626. Oh well no $10,000 cash or no giant screen TV.
i heard on ESPN that 4 people picked the final 4!!!........it couldn't of been basketball fans...unless they went to the school.......but even then......i don't know a person that had George Mason!!!
On Yahoo, only 1 guy got the final 4 right but..
according to that 0.0 pecent of people pick GMU in the finals but all of the sudden there are people with them.... Cheaters. Also Florida and LSU were like .2 percent of people and now look how many have them.... This stuff is so rigged.
Ya I saw that - that one guy had picked the perfect final 4 on yahoo, but I don't see how that's possible.

I think only very optimistic GMU fans would've picked that kind of finish and even so, that's a very small school with a small fan base in basketball. I don't even think half of their students knew they had a basketball team!

There are a lot of people saying people have "hacked" in these brackets and are changing them. Why didn't they change mine?

And even if you picked GMU, you would pick tow SEC teams and UCLA?
Something isn't right...

tequilatom · Post by **tequilatom** » March 27, 2006 8:19 am

MelliJellyBean · Post by **MelliJellyBean** » March 27, 2006 8:37 am

BahamaBreeze wrote:
MelliJellyBean wrote:
BahamaBreeze wrote:
tequilatom wrote:
markruble wrote:I'm officially done on the ESPN brackets. I have none of the final 4. Who knew Duke and UConn would get eliminated? Looking at the rankings, no number 1 ranked team is still around. This year being ranked #1 was a kiss of death. My final score on ESPN is 620 points, 72.6% overall and ranked 723626. Oh well no $10,000 cash or no giant screen TV.
i heard on ESPN that 4 people picked the final 4!!!........it couldn't of been basketball fans...unless they went to the school.......but even then......i don't know a person that had George Mason!!!
On Yahoo, only 1 guy got the final 4 right but..
according to that 0.0 pecent of people pick GMU in the finals but all of the sudden there are people with them.... Cheaters. Also Florida and LSU were like .2 percent of people and now look how many have them.... This stuff is so rigged.
Ya I saw that - that one guy had picked the perfect final 4 on yahoo, but I don't see how that's possible.

I think only very optimistic GMU fans would've picked that kind of finish and even so, that's a very small school with a small fan base in basketball. I don't even think half of their students knew they had a basketball team!
There are a lot of people saying people have "hacked" in these brackets and are changing them. Why didn't they change mine?

And even if you picked GMU, you would pick tow SEC teams and UCLA?
Something isn't right...

Ya I agree..I mean I had Florida and UCLA in my one bracket...but I still had UCONN and Duke...

BahamaBreeze · Post by **BahamaBreeze** » March 27, 2006 8:42 am

tequilatom wrote:

Hey Tom, you can buy a shirt today and have it by Saturday...

http://cgi.ebay.com/George-Mason-Univer ... otohosting

parrot1 · Post by **parrot1** » March 27, 2006 9:16 am

Looks like Left Field will win the pool....

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » March 27, 2006 9:17 am

UCLA is my only Final Four team still standing and I had them losing to Duke. I'll go with Florida now, the coach is from Long Island.

jonesbeach10 · Post by **jonesbeach10** » March 27, 2006 10:19 pm

I'm going to go with LSU and Florida in the final. I think LSU's big men will overpower UCLA's guards and I think Florida's big men will finally match up to George Masons. I like Florida over LSU in the final, and I'm rooting for them because Coach Billy Donovan is from the Island, as was pointed out.

markruble · Post by **markruble** » March 28, 2006 12:18 am

I just checked the leaderboard on ESPN. Two guys have the final 4 correct. Both guys say the final game will be between UCLA and Florida with both agreeing that Florida will win it all.

Nobody has all brackets correct. This would surprise me if anyone did.

Tequila Revenge · Post by **Tequila Revenge** » March 28, 2006 1:09 am

As much as I'd like to see GMU win, just to make the experts look like asses, I really would love to UCLA win, have the Wizard walk onto the court, and watch the team give Coach Wooden the trophy. DAMN, get a little emotional just thinking about it.

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » March 28, 2006 9:38 am

Tequila Revenge wrote:As much as I'd like to see GMU win, just to make the experts look like asses, I really would love to UCLA win, have the Wizard walk onto the court, and watch the team give Coach Wooden the trophy. DAMN, get a little emotional just thinking about it.

I'd rather see LSU take it all. Or George Mason. Just one of those feel-good stories

Tequila Revenge · Post by **Tequila Revenge** » March 28, 2006 11:30 am

RinglingRingling wrote:
Tequila Revenge wrote:As much as I'd like to see GMU win, just to make the experts look like asses, I really would love to UCLA win, have the Wizard walk onto the court, and watch the team give Coach Wooden the trophy. DAMN, get a little emotional just thinking about it.
I'd rather see LSU take it all. Or George Mason. Just one of those feel-good stories

LSU winning would be a bigger "feel good" than watching UCLA honor a man pushing 100, an icon in basketball and life?

iuparrothead · Post by **iuparrothead** » March 28, 2006 2:04 pm

Kelvin Sampson leaving OU to coach Indiana.

... so says ESPN.com

iuparrothead · Post by **iuparrothead** » March 28, 2006 2:07 pm

And MSNBC...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12052201/