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10-6 (assuming Georgetown doesn't collapse, if they do lol 9-7)
Lost 3 Sweet 16 Teams (Baylor, SF Austin, Iowa State)
Lost 1 Elite 8 Team (Iowa State)
on day 1
feels so bad
Could have been worse though, NC State basically saved me from single digit wins somehow. I pretty much wrote that off when I saw LSU up double digits then saw they cut it to like 7 or something and watched to the end of that.
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Didn't lose any Sweet 16 teams at least. Lost Buffalo, St. John's, Davidson, and Providence.
Also denied having a perfect region by Providence/Dayton (and also Baylor from yesterday) while Duke's region is a comedy where I only got Duke, Gonzaga, and Georgetown.
argh
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...except originally i had NC State > Villanova but backed off because i was worried about NC State/LSU. so i compromised and took NC State > LSU and Villanova > NC State.
why
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Lost my first Final Four team with Virginia.
that whole region is still a comedy for me.
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I'm less enthusiastic this year because Kentucky is so much better than everyone else, so they're probably going to win, and there's no clear alternative. The final game is worth enough points to basically auto-win any pool, so if you're competing with all the Kentucky people, your pool is going to be decided by whatever random garbage happens in the second and/or third rounds (even if Kentucky loses at some point), and if you don't choose Kentucky, who are you picking? Arizona/Wisconsin? Duke?
Duke?
Anyway, my bracket sucked. My final four is
Iowa State
Virginia
Kentucky
Future Alma Mater Arizona,
which is great because I got blown out within hours of the tournament's start and MSU managed to make Virginia's day two years in a row just to make sure I was dead. (Villanova also lost, so my Elite 8 Virginia/Villanova matchup didn't work out too well.)
TEAMS I STILL HAVE:
Kentucky
West Virginia
Notre Dame
Oklahoma
Louisville
Duke
Gonzaga
Wisconsin
Arizona
9/16 is slightly better than .500, so I'll take it!
Aside from the total screwjob that was the Dayton/BSU play-in game that I'm marginally very upset about, I'm also displeased that Utah is still alive. Utah is lame. However, I was rooting for Duke to obliterate SDSU (mission accomplished) and I don't think I can stomach rooting for them to win anything else, so...
Go Utes! Basket those balls! Woooo!
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Liberal Arts Major
Kentucky
Wisconsin
Duke
Virginia
which is almost as boring as possible
Teams I still have:
Kentucky
Notre Dame
Wichita State
Wisconsin
UNC
Arizona
Oklahoma
Duke
Gonzaga
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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- Villanova over Louisville
- Virginia over Oklahoma
- Georgetown over Duke
- Iowa State over Gonzaga
That makes me 3/8 for the Elite 8. On the bright side, if Arizona somehow beats Wisconsin and Kentucky's bus driver correctly locates the site of their Elite 8 game, I'll have half the Final Four, and that's what really matters, right?
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
I went 5-3, and I went into the round losing those 3 automatically, so really having 5/8 of the Elite Eight is as good as I could have hoped for.
If Kentucky, Wisconsin, and Duke all win all of a sudden I have 3/4 Final Four and it's basically like I had a good bracket all along! >_>
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...I think I would be. >_>
and i have 3/4 final four right.
albeit the 1 seeds soooo... >_>
I have Kentucky > Duke for the finals so we'll see how that goes I guess. (Depending on how far you take it, Villanova would have been the "chalk" pick for the finals over Duke being the #2 overall 1 seed, so if Duke wins I'm almost sure my bracket would turn out better, but...)
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Chalk was the way to go this year (although Duke > Villanova seems like the right pick, since Duke is in a better conference and has better players and all that), and I picked Kentucky because of that, but you can gain a significant advantage in most pools by picking against the trend for the Final Four, so that's why my bracket is currently in flames. That, and UAB being a bunch of jerks.
Also, if I'm going to be going to Arizona, I'm contractually obligated to put them in the Final Four every year, right?
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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My first instinct was to take Wisconsin > Kentucky but I thought it was just wishful thinking (which got me in some trouble in the bracket last year) so I backed down on it so that I could have a win-win where either my bracket succeeded or what I wanted to see happened and keep myself from having a chance at being totally burned on both.
Should have stuck with it.
Oh well.
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu