NCAA Tournament Challenge

by **Indy** on Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:41 am

I got Uconn, Gonzaga, Texas and Villanova in the final four.

Texas Longhorns are taking it all this year in a 86-84 win over Uconn in the final game.

by **cklitsie** on Fri Mar 17, 2006 2:28 am

Indy wrote:I got Uconn, Gonzaga, Texas and Villanova in the final four.

I have UConn, Texas, Villanova and Memphis ( :cool:

).

by **The X** on Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:39 am

damn, 100% so far, BC & Tennessee held on for me....Wichita State was an easy pick over Seton Hall, & UW-Milwaukee was a good shot for upset....

100% at the moment but Montana & Alabama are going to change that for me as Nevada & Marquette are going down

as for Final Four, I have UConn, Duke, UCLA & Boston College....so mostly favourites this year....

great start to tournament....wanted Winthrop (they have a Tall Blacks' player as one of their stars) to win but their shot failed them....great game, so was BC-Pacific one....

EDIT: Montana beat Nevada

then again, I was never 100% on Nevada winning that game, I didn't really see them as a 5 seed....as for Marquette, they made a great comeback to just fall short against Alabama

that was another game that was essentially the toss of a coin as they were both pretty close....Marquette just gave Bama too much of a start

by **J@3** on Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:04 am

I'm 4-3 so far :cry:

Thankfully though, the 3 bad picks didn't go beyond the 2nd round. I had Oklahoma over Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Nevada over Montana and Marquette over Alabama... but all of them were losing in the 2nd round, so that's ok.

by **J@3** on Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:11 am

Indy wrote:I got Uconn, Gonzaga, Texas and Villanova in the final four. .

same

by **The X** on Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:02 pm

Gonzaga could be knocked out by Xavier....I was so tempted to take that result but I didn't....Xavier is always a problem for high seeds in NCAA Tourney....they play tough....I have Zags getting knocked out at Sweet 16, they rely too much on Morrison & Batista, & don't have very good guards....

my 2 losses (same as Jae's with exception of Sooners) are alright as I didn't have Nevada or Marquette going past 2nd Round....

UCLA won which is good....UNC-Wilmington is winning slightly over GW which is great....that's Goldsberry white guy is an awesome PG....he's clutch....hopefully they can hold off the Colonials, move on & give me another W

I'm now 5-2 (with the UCLA win)....

by **J@3** on Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:09 pm

Great comeback from George Washington. They were down and out coming out of the 2nd half, I've got them over NCW. Also have Iona over LSU but that doesn't seem to be happening, no matter they were getting knocked out in the 2nd round also.

Other picks for today:

Gonzaga over Xavier
Indiana over San Diego St.
Duke over Southern
Syracuse over Texas A&M
Illinois over Air Force
Washington over Utah St

by **The X** on Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:14 pm

I got UNC-W over GW, they're up 1 now....

I also have:
LSU over Iona
Zags over Xavier (Morrison is leading fightback)
Indiana over SD State (although I was going to go the other way)
Duke over Southern
Texas A&M over Syracuse
Illinois over Air Force
Utah State over Washington

by **J@3** on Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:37 pm

GW gets through (Y)

Gonzaga up by 3 with about 30 seconds left, here's hoping.

by **The X** on Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:42 pm

yep, Adam Morrison proved again why he is great (Y)

as for GW winning, it's bitter sweet....I like GW & Pops, but I really thought UNC-W would get up....they led by 3 with under 2 to go, but GW scored last 6pts....very disappointing....those 8 vs 9 games are always 50-50....

with that loss & the Zags victory, along with LSU victory, I'm 7-3, which is solid but that UNC-W loss really hurt....Goldsberry let me down :cry:

by **Yessie** on Fri Mar 17, 2006 2:05 pm

i missed 4 games already
had marquetter over alabama
Oklahoma over Wisc. milwaukee
nevada over montana
seton hall over wichita st. (N)

by **J@3** on Fri Mar 17, 2006 4:47 pm

I'm 11-5 after day one, Syracuse was my worst pick :cry:

I had them going past the 2nd round. Along with Nevada.

by **cklitsie** on Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:03 pm

Jae and X, I'm tied with you guys! Not sure if the standings are right though, cwebbiverson has 3 wrong (still good) and he gets 98.0% score.

I was wrong with: UNC-W, Syracuse, Marquette, Seton Hall and Nevada.

by **ixcuincle** on Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:13 pm

Apparently discovered this thread late

http://tidalwaveclan.com/zargotelc/bracket.html

UNC-W / GW was questionably the best game last night as GW came back from an 18 point deficit with a 19-0 run. I have got to rewatch that game on MMOD.

I had a sense Syracuse would lose becase A&M was a great team that beat Texas a few weeks back. When I reviewed the 5-12 matchups , Texas A&M was the 12 seed most likely to beat the 5 seed.

I had Seton Hall beating "unknown" Wichita State but the mid-major advanced. Damn it!

And I got Nevada wrong too. I didn't think they would lose to Montana.

(N)

by **Bang** on Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:00 pm

Funny how in all my other brackets I had 130 points (and all with different losses and such) and the one chose for this group I had 120. Hmm...Oh well..Who knows.

by **The X** on Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:44 am

all the losses I had don't really effect my bracket as I had all of my wrong results getting bounced in 2nd Round anyways 8-)

cwebbiverson might be 1st at the moment, but he lost Seton Hall & Syracuse....he had both teams going to the Sweet 16....guess for some reason he liked the overrated teams from Jersey

at the moment I would consider myself & keepinitgangsta in the lead due to the PPR....our losses didn't hurt & the BC & UT wins were much more important for us than the losses (Y)

although tomorrow is a new day & brackets can be busted over night, so I wish everyone good luck & hope Cinderella does not strike again as my Cinderella's are more or less played out, came out with the Texas A&M & the UW-Milwaukee but missed out on the UNC-Wilmington & Utah State....ahh well, 50-50 is alright....

by **Buckley** on Sat Mar 18, 2006 3:19 am

wow 13-3, but as x pointed out......2 of those 3 i have in sweet 16....

in one of my other brackets.......i got 14 of 16 only missing nevada and marquette

by **Mazzocchi** on Sat Mar 18, 2006 6:05 pm

well as of this afternoon, I was wining my school pool with 14-2 and now my record is 25-7

which is pretty darn good.

by **Kriegz** on Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:16 am

I had Winthrop! That really hurt. Bragging rights all down the drain. I only got 22 right first round but only had 2 of them going past round 2, Michigan St. and Winthrop who are both in the same section so I should be in decent shape for the long term.

by **Yessie** on Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:38 am

the best brackets on espn only have 1 missed game so far. guess nobody has a perfect bracket this yr. 8-)

by **Mazzocchi** on Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:24 am

pretty much my whole Washington bracket is fucked, and my Minn. bracket is perfect (amazingly)

this is how it looks now

by **Riot** on Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:52 am

My final four is: Duke, UCLA, Uconn and BC. With Uconn beating UCLA 74-67. Let's hope for the best.

by **Yessie** on Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:59 am

Illinios goes down by 3 coudlnt handle them Huskies. Uw in the sweet 16. (Y)

by **Buckley** on Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:49 am

first post updated. has all contestants (currently in order) and their brackets

by **The X** on Sun Mar 19, 2006 2:47 pm

Riot wrote:My final four is: Duke, UCLA, Uconn and BC. With Uconn beating UCLA 74-67. Let's hope for the best.

I have the exact same Final Four, except with UConn beating Duke 72-65

looks like I'm 2nd equal after today's games....

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