I know my brackets look a flaming hot mess. I found on-line brackets for the women's tourney over at espn. I'm doing a lot better over there. Only 7 wrong after the first round:D

Whoa. I'm in Florida this week. I just checked in and saw that I am first right now. Who knew?

Go Duke.

I've been hanging with Mich. State fans recently sooo...that's about all I know of who I would like to see stay in it for a while, cause the MSU fans here are fun! But I have a random semi-educated guess Duke will beat them. Luckily tho I'll be out of town this weekend so I'll miss the drama.

A good friend of mine was tops in his pool to win a hellova lotta money until GTech lost...poor baby :(

GO UGA LADY DAWGS!

Boy, is somehody in trouble at the atlanta journal constitution website!! The headline on the front page i that former coach Hugh Durham dies...cliick on story.....he just announced his retirement!!

(Unless it is a horrible concidence!)

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2018702

Hopefully this isn't the beginning of the UConn exodus. Losing Villanueva would be a sizable loss, but if everyone else stays they'll still have a very good starting five next year. If Ed Nelson plays like he did in the tournament, he'll at least partially make up for the loss.

careful - I think state has a good chance to roll Duke out.

MSU has much better depth, and if Paul Davis can do even a semi-decent job on Sheldon Williams, then the JJ had better shoot about 9 for 12 from 3. Duke's looked tired, gotten into serious foul trouble, and hasn't been stopping ANYONE on D.

You heard it here first.

This information + a little of my own MSU research will help me sound sports smart to the MSU alumn I went out with last Fri...thanks! :cool:

is it me or does it seem like there is a lot more time between games this year? I cant remember there being close to a week between games. The way I remember it being, is half the teams played on one day, and the other half on the next, until there was only 1 team left.

Nope, it's been like this as long as I can remember. 32 and 16 games the first weekend, 8 and 4 games the second, and then 1 game on Monday night the following week. They used to have a 'consolation' game for 3rd and 4th place, but stopped playing that in 1981.

My first Final Four team got knocked out. I took a long shot with Texas Tech. Meh.

Oh guys, it's so hard doing so well with my NCAA predicitons every year. LOL.

Go Michigan State!! To those who had Duke going to the Elite 8 or farther in their brackets, sorry to burst your bracket...

Go Green!!

I really wish I had gotten a bracket in, but I didn't have the time...

I'm guessing none of us had Michigan State going to the Elite Eight.

I didn't do one here, but I did one at work and a lot of us had Michigan State going to the elite 8.

Mine is SO hosed! :( I can't believe my beloved Blue Devils went out like that :(

Now that Duke is out, I have seriously lost interest.

(goes and sits in the grumpy corner with Jill1228:mad: )

I didn't have Michigan State making it this far, but let me tell you, I LOVE anyone who beats Duke. HELL YEAH. It's a good day for the Big 10.

Had a blast at the Syracuse games last night. Villanova was ROBBED!

I don't care about my brackets anymore, because KENTUCKY IS STILL DANCING, BABY!!!!!

I do not like West Virginia one bit.

I feel ya Jill1228. I was at a bar surrounded by UNC fans who did everything to make me realize that we were losing. The worst was when someone said that Old Dominion could feel better about their loss to Michigan State! :( Just pour some salt in those wounds!

I about had a heart attack with the Illinois/Arizona game tonight :p

Hey, look who's winning? :eek:

I picked the Badgers to make it farther than my boyfriend (a Wisconsin alum) did and I am talking ALL SORTS OF SMACK right now. It's sweet. :D

Hey, look who's breathing down your neck. :D

I am stunned I have 2 of the Final Four correct.

No more teams left for me in the final four. :(

Maybe I made crappy choices because I go to a school with a crappy basketball team...yes...that must be it. It's all Quin's fault that I picked everything wrong. Oh well, he's still hot...oh darling I will always love you, coke addiction, bad hairdo's, and all.

Wow I really need to sleep now. :D

go cards!!!!!!! i about peed my pants during the wva/uofl game yesterday, but it's all good now! :D

i would love to see UcK and louisville in the final, but UcK can go out before that, too, and it'll still be good. ;)

I got 3/4 in the Final Four; UNC, Louisville, Illinois. Its nice to see the Big 10 representing with Illinois and MSU. Now, all I want is UNC to win it all. :D

STILL SO PROUD OF MY BADGERS. They played up there with Carolina the whole time, and everybody knows that UNC's the real #1 team in the nation anyway. ;) If Wisconsin can't win it all, I'll happily cheer for Carolina (since I have them winning it all in my pool).

Also happy to see that Illinois, State and Wisconsin shut up everyone who was talking about how "weak" the Big Ten is. ACC what?

[hijack] One of my co-worker's daughters just accepted a bid last month from ZTA at Michigan State! [/hijack]

Since GA Tech, Duke and KY are out, my 1st choice is UNC cause they are in the ACC. My 2nd choice is Illinois...only because they have an AGD Chapter, lol. ;) :D

[double hijack] Yay for her! The pres of my alumnae chapter is from there, great chaper! She'll be at the Final Four & championship, so jealous! She also is the one who introduced me to the male MSU alumn who is the one I hope asks me to go watch the game Sat at the regular bar they all go to for MSU sports...follow all that?? [/hijack]

Congrats to her! They are a great group of girls here (as they are everywhere else).


I would have gone to St. Louis for the weekend, but I don't have tickets. I am from there and my best friend just got a job at a hotel. Conviently the same one that's housing the final four teams. I could do my own little stalking, but I would rather be up here cheering them with a lot of State fans. Go Green!! I will be here in East Lansing cheering on the Spartans at the bar with my roommate and all of our friends. What bar are you possibly going to? It would be quite interesting to meet someone from GC who also roots for the Spartans, by choice or association...it doesn't matter!! That is if you are talking about a bar here in East Lansing.

Oh well, so I completely bombed both of my brackets this year but I don't care because neither Duke or Louisville will be national champion :D Now if Michigan State would have knocked off UNC I'd have been in heaven. I hate to say it, having seen the Syracuse games last weekend about 10-12 rows back from midcourt, I think the last team standing will be UNC.

Oh well, only 7 1/2 months or so until it's BASKETBALL SEASON once again!

If Illinois wins so do I. :D

Wow, I bomb the early part of the bracket but end up with the final two teams picked correctly.

Same Here!!

I need UNC to win though.

Me three!
I've got UNC winning though. But so does AEPhiSierra. My tie-breaker score is kind high, though. I guess I was thinking OT...

wow - i usually bomb out in these pools but if North Carolina wins I win the Greek Chat pool and my office pool. GO UNC!!!

Well, I'm done on the women's side. I picked both LSU and Stanford to play for the NC. Tenn knocked out Stanford and Mich St. Baylor knocked LSU last night:(