NCAA Tournament 2013

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Who should and will make it in?

My predictions:
IN:  St. Mary's, Middle Tennessee, La Salle, Boise State, Ole Miss
OUT: Southern Miss, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, Virginia, UMass, Alabama

It's complete BS that a team like Southern Miss with an RPI of 32 will get left out, but all signs point to them being left out.

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Who should and will make it in?

My predictions:
IN:  St. Mary's, Middle Tennessee, La Salle, Boise State, Ole Miss
OUT: Southern Miss, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, Virginia, UMass, Alabama

It's complete BS that a team like Southern Miss with an RPI of 32 will get left out, but all signs point to them being left out.

Got it right, but it's still BS.

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I'll start an ESPN tournament pool if yall want to have one.

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I created a group on ESPN.com called "Atlas Forum"

All you have to do to find it is search for Atlas Forum and it will come up.  The password is Atlas.

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so you want to sledgehammer ten conferences?

No.  If a SWAC or whatever team was one of the 64 best, it can play.

On a semi-related note, COME ON SOUTHERN!  PLEASE PULL THIS OUT!

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Harvard taking up the #14 making-a-run mantle from Davidson earlier in the day.  up four at half despite being -4 in turnover differential

I've got UNM as a Sweet 16 team knocking off Arizona in the 3rd round and losing to Ohio State in the Sweet 16.  I've only lost one Sweet 16 team today, but I don't want to make it two.  Let's pick it up, Lobos!!!

this is why I always have had an aversion to getting heavily involved in the bracket thing, it leads to a perversion of the experience, where perceived and selfish self-interest trumps justice and Beauty.  case-in-point: at a high school party in '06 everyone was actively rooting for tourney favorite #1 Connecticut as upstart #16 Albany took a 50-38 lead early in the second half.

What's wrong with rooting for favorites instead of underdogs?  Unless I actively dislike the team, I'd rather see the teams who are actually good play in the later rounds.

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Dammit Wisconsin.  Why?!

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Harvard taking up the #14 making-a-run mantle from Davidson earlier in the day.  up four at half despite being -4 in turnover differential

I've got UNM as a Sweet 16 team knocking off Arizona in the 3rd round and losing to Ohio State in the Sweet 16.  I've only lost one Sweet 16 team today, but I don't want to make it two.  Let's pick it up, Lobos!!!

this is why I always have had an aversion to getting heavily involved in the bracket thing, it leads to a perversion of the experience, where perceived and selfish self-interest trumps justice and Beauty.  case-in-point: at a high school party in '06 everyone was actively rooting for tourney favorite #1 Connecticut as upstart #16 Albany took a 50-38 lead early in the second half.

What's wrong with rooting for favorites instead of underdogs?  Unless I actively dislike the team, I'd rather see the teams who are actually good play in the later rounds.

this is fascism.

It makes me sad when a great team like Missouri last year has one bad game and their whole season goes down in flames, while a bad team like Norfolk State lives to fight another day.

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16-1 games are always such a tease...

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Philly pride! Congrats, LaSalle!

Yes, I appreciate La Salle a lot right now.  Now Ole Miss fans can go back to not caring about basketball for another decade or so.  It was getting really weird down here...