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BouncyBall 2013/2014

Re: BouncyBall 2013/2014

I tried to not look at the seed or descriptions because it gave it away too much, so I just focused on ratings. Ended with UF, MSU, Creighton and Wichita with MSU over Wichita. Somehow had Mercer going S16 and St. Joe going E8, but the final four results might be the one I do in my actual bracket.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
I tried to not look at the seed or descriptions because it gave it away too much, so I just focused on ratings. Ended with UF, MSU, Creighton and Wichita with MSU over Wichita. Somehow had Mercer going S16 and St. Joe going E8, but the final four results might be the one I do in my actual bracket.
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In the first bracket I did today, I had UF, MSU, Creighton, and Louisville. MSU over Louisville for the title.
 
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MavHockey14 said:
It's a pretty awesome tool. You'll be surprised with who you get to the Final Four.
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well, I got Louisville vs Florida in the Final, which wasn't much of a surprise (I was leaning toward picking them anyway); but they beat Virginia and Arizona, respectively, which did surprise me.

A few of the picks were tossups that could have gone either way. Depends on what you emphasize, I guess.

I may enter these results in my office pool. I usually enter two, one from the head and one from the heart.
 
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More advice from the WSJ on how to win your office pool:


here is a guide to help each type of fan make winning predictions.

Novice: Pick the favorites...the last 10 seasons, the average number of double-digit seeds beating favorites was six per tournament. Meanwhile, a bracket with favorites winning every game last year would have placed in the 91st percentile of entries to ESPN's contest, a company spokeswoman said.

[If you are going to make your picks based on mascots,] According to a Wall Street Journal audit last year of the animal kingdom, bears have the best NCAA tournament winning percentage of animal mascots, followed by cats, dogs and birds. Horses pull up the rear. That is good news for Baylor—not so much for Western Michigan.

Intermediate: Bet on the best player.

Double down on upsets. The secret to selecting underdogs to the Sweet 16: Make sure you scout their round-of-32 opponents, too.

Say you like 12th-seeded Harvard to upset Cincinnati in its opener. Do you really think the Crimson outsmart Michigan State in its next game? Try a No. 12 seed like North Dakota State instead. If the Bison get past Oklahoma, they would get the winner of San Diego State-New Mexico State.

Advanced: beware the slowpokes....The five slowest teams in last year's tournament were all higher seeds in their round-of-64 games, yet they all lost.

Don't ignore defense. No national champion in at least the last decade has cut down the nets in April with a deficient defense masked by an outrageous offense.
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Looks like Minnesota is going to beat High Point (woo! big achievement! :rolleyes: ) in the NIT. On to the winner of Saint Mary's (Gaels)/Utah.
 
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On a random tangent, can we pass some sort of law that stops people from referring to the play-in round as round 1, round 1 as round 2, etc.?
 
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French Rage said:
On a random tangent, can we pass some sort of law that stops people from referring to the play-in round as round 1, round 1 as round 2, etc.?
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The people are using the NCAA's own terminology. You want it fixed, ***** to the NCAA.
 
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unofan said:
The people are using the NCAA's own terminology. You want it fixed, ***** to the NCAA.
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The NCAA won't do anything about that until there's at least 96 teams in the tourney. Then, it just won't have to worry about people bellyaching about what round it is.
 
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Great story in SI.com today about how # 16 Princeton nearly beat # 1 Georgetown in 1989. Princeton was down 50-49 with 7 seconds left and a player had an "open" jumper which Mourning blocked from pretty far away to save the game.



PS A little trivia: when is the only time a # 16 seed beat a # 1 seed in the NCAA Division I basketball tournament?


Hint: the answer is NOT "never." But there is a "trick question" element ....;)
 
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FreshFish said:
Great story in SI.com today about how # 16 Princeton nearly beat # 1 Georgetown in 1989. Princeton was down 50-49 with 7 seconds left and a player had an "open" jumper which Mourning blocked from pretty far away to save the game.



PS A little trivia: when is the only time a # 16 seed beat a # 1 seed in the NCAA Division I basketball tournament?


Hint: the answer is NOT "never." But there is a "trick question" element ....;)
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Harvard over Stanford in Women's Bouncyball...
 
Re: BouncyBall 2013/2014

MavHockey14 said:
In the first bracket I did today, I had UF, MSU, Creighton, and Louisville. MSU over Louisville for the title.
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Louisville must look really good on paper, as I had them winning the whole thing when I did it. However, as a Marquette fan, I cannot use those as my actual picks. :)

I went with Villanova because no one else did (even though they're playing my alma mater in the first round). MSU and Florida appear to be the popular picks in the pool this year.

One guy got Arizona in the randoms. I got GW winning with a Final Four of GW, SDSU, SFA, and ASU. Sooooo I'm pretty much screwed there.
 
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Tough game for Iowa last night. What a weird season; last night's game was a carbon copy of it in a nutshell. It'll be interesting to see the team come together next year. They lose Marble, who was the leading scorer, but I think they can be even better next year. Should be fun to see.

Here's to cheering on my bracket now and enjoying some upsets!
 
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