Post here when Carolina loses to Radford because Ty Lawson is out and fucks up your final four

3/19/2009 8:30:05 AM

i've never had dook or unc in my final four...and never will

3/19/2009 8:32:06 AM

so you have never won your office pool?

k

3/19/2009 8:33:31 AM

haha, nope

3/19/2009 8:39:26 AM

Quote :

"so you have never won your office pool? k"

They have "only" been to the final four 3 times in the last 10 years. I used quotations because that is certainly an impressive resume on its own, but in response to your statement: you can certainly win an office pool without putting UNC in your final four every year...

That being said, I dont have them in mine this year. Will they probably get there? yes.

3/19/2009 8:53:21 AM

This can also be a "post your final four thread" until everything gets started

i got louisville, unc, memphis, duke --im an ACC homer and i think this might be the year that duke manages NOT to choke

3/19/2009 9:50:20 AM

im putting a lot of faith in syracuse to come out of the south

Seeing as Syracuse is the main team left I am rooting for and I never root for UNC I had to put a little faith in the orangemen to pull a big win out for me.

[Edited on March 19, 2009 at 10:01 AM. Reason : ]

3/19/2009 9:57:44 AM

My Final Four is:

Louisville
Missouri
Pittsburgh
Syracuse

watch Mizzu and Cuse lose the first weekend

3/19/2009 10:04:28 AM

Louisville
Memphis
Pitt
Carolina.

Ty Lawson better fucking get healthy.

3/19/2009 10:13:16 AM

Quote :

"i think this might be the year that duke manages NOT to choke"

They have relatively low expectations for a Duke team in this tourney... not many picked them to the Final 4 at all.

Frankly, I think Texas might beat them in the 2nd round. I just don't like that matchup and the tourney is all about matchups...

3/19/2009 10:48:00 AM

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"My Final Four is: Louisville Missouri Pittsburgh Syracuse watch Mizzu and Cuse lose the first weekend"

that was my final four until i swapped uconn with mizzu at the last second before submitting. and yea syracuse has a track record of choking in this thing so we'll see. But I am hoping for a good performance from the orange this year.

3/19/2009 11:17:26 AM

Louisville, Uconn, NOVA, Oklahoma

In my mind, Uconn could very easily be Missouri, though. That was a tough bracket for me.

3/19/2009 11:17:45 AM

lots of people in my pool had Memphis making the Final Four and some making the final game, so I figured I might as well go against the grain

3/19/2009 11:20:14 AM

Louisville, Memphis, Pitt, Oklahoma
...
Memphis, Pitt
...
Memphis

3/19/2009 11:22:34 AM

Louisville Memphis Pitt Oklahoma

Bold teams in the final game; Louisville wins the title 71-68

3/19/2009 11:25:17 AM

Ever year I play with certain rules on my bracket.
1.) Never pick Duke past Sweet 16.
2.) Never pick UConn to make a run.
3.) Never pick Louisville to make a run.
4.) Avoid hype of upsets before the tourney.

So, this year my rules are hurt because both UCon and Louisville are #1 seeds, haha. So I think everyone should be ready for UConn to mess up brackets, probably gonna lose in the 2nd round.

3/19/2009 11:51:21 AM

Quote :

"1.) Never pick Duke past Sweet 16. 2.) Never pick UConn to make a run. 3.) Never pick Louisville to make a run."

I gotta be honest, those are terrible rules

3/19/2009 11:58:18 AM

i see something like this happening. like 3 players from uconn fouling out or some shit like that

3/19/2009 11:58:45 AM

I have Memphis, Louisville, UNC, Duke.

Memphis beating UNC.. but that would be a hell of a final four matchup if Duke and UNC played.

edit: and I fully expect my bracket to be nuked

[Edited on March 19, 2009 at 12:01 PM. Reason : []

3/19/2009 12:00:20 PM

Memphis has only beat 1 out of the 3 decent teams they played this year. Just sayin. 2 if you count Tennessee.

[Edited on March 19, 2009 at 12:05 PM. Reason : f]

3/19/2009 12:03:25 PM

My rules compared to the last 4 years:

2008:
Duke - 2nd round
UConn - 1st round
Louisville - Elite 8

2007:
Duke - 1st round
UConn - didn't make tourney
Louisville - 2nd round

2006:
Duke - Sweet 16
UConn - Elite 8
Louisville - didn't make the tournament

2005:
Duke - Sweeet 16
UConn - 2nd round
Louisville - Final 4

My rule would have hurt me 3 times out of 10, and Duke is pretty consistent overall. So that's 30% of the time my rule fails, or 70% of the time its right. Of course if you go back to 2004 it changes things, but I didn't establish that rule until a year or 2 ago after constantly vesting too much faith in those 3 teams.

This year I have put more faith in UConn and Louisville than I'd like to, but I never put Duke past the Sweet 16.

With that in mind, if Louisville makes it past the Sweet 16 this year, I'll probably remove that rule from the list. But the Duke rule is set in stone, haha.

[Edited on March 19, 2009 at 1:35 PM. Reason : .]

3/19/2009 1:32:54 PM

Memphis is about to nuke my bracket in only the third game of the tourney. That'll be a personal record.

3/19/2009 2:11:07 PM

WTF fuck, butler.

3/19/2009 2:29:59 PM

did you really think memphis would lose

3/19/2009 2:30:46 PM

Butler, go fuck yourselves

3/19/2009 2:31:42 PM

Ha, I'm 3 for 3.

3/19/2009 2:34:45 PM

yea srsly^

3/19/2009 2:35:08 PM

2 for 3.

butler

oh well i still think it was a good pick. they could have won. oh well. go radford? that will definitely fuck my bracket haha. luckily i don't have unc in the final four, though.

3/19/2009 2:37:03 PM

LSU was the smart pick.

They were badly underseeded.

I have them beating UNC....took a huge risk but if Lawson is out, they can do it.

3/19/2009 2:39:00 PM

i don't think lsu was vastly underseeded. but whatevs. hope you're right and they beat unc. i dunno, though. def a better chance than butler.

3/19/2009 2:44:40 PM

2/3 here

picked LSU, but also picked BYU

3/19/2009 2:48:29 PM

i picked BYU, oh wellz.

3/19/2009 3:29:47 PM

1/3

hopefully northern iowa can come back and maryland holds on

3/19/2009 3:32:36 PM

^why one earth would you pick Northern Iowa??

Maryland could be my undoing, but Cal is starting to play well and Vasquez is in early foul trouble...Randle is playing lights out

[Edited on March 19, 2009 at 3:37 PM. Reason : .]

3/19/2009 3:36:47 PM

because a 12 beats a 5 almost every year and i think the big ten is absolute garbage this year

3/19/2009 3:37:53 PM

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"because a 12 beats a 5 almost every year and i think the big ten is absolute garbage this year"

you picked the wrong 12 over a 5, Arizona is going to beat Utah...mark it down. I agree the Big Ten sucks, but Purdue has played pretty well, especially of late with Hummel being healthy.

3/19/2009 3:39:35 PM

I have two brackets:

Louisville
Pittsburgh
Memphis
UNC

Louisville
Villanova
Syracuse
Purdue


AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

3/19/2009 3:39:45 PM

Wisconsin over FSU is my 12/5 upset pick. I figured that game was a toss up and bought in to the 12 seed upset logic.

3/19/2009 3:59:36 PM

3 different people, 3 different 12\5 upsets

3/19/2009 4:06:26 PM

Why not pick N. Iowa? They're not the better team, but they were terrific in their conference

3/19/2009 4:07:29 PM

^^^ i picked wisconsin over FSU, too

[Edited on March 19, 2009 at 4:08 PM. Reason : .]

3/19/2009 4:07:37 PM

hahah i got all the 5s advancing I"M A REBEL

[Edited on March 19, 2009 at 4:09 PM. Reason : jk i got arizona over utah but i'm still a REBEL]

3/19/2009 4:08:15 PM

Quote :

"Why not pick N. Iowa? They're not the better team"

Welp

3/19/2009 4:09:12 PM

So you're going to pick the better team each time? Good luck with that.

I like to pick out the upsets that happen every year, the ones where the worse team wins.

[Edited on March 19, 2009 at 4:11 PM. Reason : not that I'm great at it]

3/19/2009 4:10:18 PM

BUTLER

3/19/2009 4:16:36 PM

Butler losing shouldn't NUKE anyone's bracket. It might dent it, but if you had them winning 2 games, you're a fucking moron.

3/19/2009 4:18:36 PM

no way in hell wisconsin beats fsu or arizona beats utah, utah has some huge mormons

3/19/2009 4:21:50 PM

^I agree with the first part of your statement, but you have no idea what you're talking about with Arizona, they have the only other player in the country to average a double double (Jordan Hill) besides Blake Griffin. Utah's frontcourt will be outmatched.

[Edited on March 19, 2009 at 4:25 PM. Reason : .]

3/19/2009 4:24:30 PM

he's so good he led his team to squeaking in the tournament on the strength of their last 23 years?

3/19/2009 4:26:15 PM

all i know is that arizona has lost every single game that i've watched them play and i plan on watching them play utah tomorrow

3/19/2009 4:26:54 PM