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100% pro-life no matter what
ExtremeRepublican
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« on: March 17, 2017, 12:07:56 AM »

heatcharger is now the only one left with a perfect bracket so far (thanks to a dumb foul from Vanderbilt).

I had a 14/16 day that would have been 15/16 if my team didn't lose in the absolute most heart-wrenching way possible.  I almost wish we had never made our comeback, because then I could accept that we weren't the better team.  As it is, I feel like we were the better team and lost because of a brain fart.  MFD brought us back from our 15 point deficit, though, so it's hard to be too upset with him.  It was a good season, but it ended about as terribly as a season can.
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100% pro-life no matter what
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E: 7.35, S: 5.57


« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2017, 11:18:19 PM »

My bracket is doing so well, except for my champion being gone.  I could still win it, but we would have to get someone winning it all that no one picked (I'm for Florida anyway at this point, so maybe them).
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100% pro-life no matter what
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E: 7.35, S: 5.57


« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2017, 02:05:01 PM »

Going into the final four there have been 14 upset seed wins out of 60 games or 23.3%. That's very close to my expectation of 22% and within the normal range of 19-25%. If you picked the higher seed to win every game so far you would have 820 points and be sitting in third place in Atlas pool.

Picking by seeds would leave 4 number 1 seeds in the Final Four. If you picked the last three games based on the postseason rank in the AP poll (1-Villanova, 2-Gonzaga, 3-Kansas, 6-North Carolina) then you'd have Villanova over Kansas in the final and finish with those same 820 points.

You would have probably used the committee's ordering of the 1's- Villanova, Kansas, UNC, Gonzaga.
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100% pro-life no matter what
ExtremeRepublican
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E: 7.35, S: 5.57


« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2017, 10:00:29 PM »
« Edited: March 31, 2017, 11:59:55 PM by ExtremeRepublican »

Do we have a women's bracket pool too?

Spoiler alert: UConn wins.

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

It is worth noting (as I found out when they were in the CWS finals a couple years ago) that Mississippi St. has never won a national championship in any sport, as I'm sure Damar knows all too well.  Now, I'm a Vandy fan, and we only have 3 (2007 women's bowling, 2014 baseball, 2015 women's tennis), so I shouldn't really be talking!
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