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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 5:07 am    Post subject: 2017 NCAA Tournament - LG Bracket

I have not seen a bracket challenge set up for LG, so I created one on ESPN.

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Get in on the excitement of this year's NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Invite friends and family to join your group, fill out up to 25 brackets, and earn bragging rights by winning it all! Compete for a chance to win the grand prize package worth $19,950!

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 7:53 am    Post subject:

I'll play. This is good because I always pick UCLA even when there's no shot. It won't be a horrible pick this year.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 8:17 am    Post subject:

Vishnu wrote:
I'll play. This is good because I always pick UCLA even when there's no shot. It won't be a horrible pick this year.


yeah, if there is no money involved, and my team even has a moderate chance.....I will ride them all the way through the bracket....most fun way to do it in my opinion.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 11:43 am    Post subject:

I don't have an ESPN account nor do I want one. So I'll go with this:

Villanova, Wisconsin, Virginia, Florida, SMU, Baylor, South Carolina, Duke

Gonzaga, Northwestern, Notre Dame, WVU, Xavier, FSU, VCU, Arizona

Kansas, MSU, ISU, Purdue, Creighton, Oregon, Michigan, Louisville

North Carolina, Seton Hall, Minnesota, Butler, Cincy, UCLA, Wichita State, Kentucky

Villanova, Florida, Baylor, Duke
Gonzaga, WVU, FSU, Arizona
Kansas, Purdue, Creighton, Louisville
North Carolina, Butler, UCLA, Kentucky

Villanova, Baylor
Gonzaga, Arizona
Kansas, Louisville
North Carolina, UCLA

Baylor, Arizona
Kansas, UCLA

Arizona, UCLA

UCLA
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 11:50 am    Post subject:

I'll get it done this evening!
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 1:52 pm    Post subject:

11 People signed up so far. Hopefully we get a few more before it starts.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 3:57 pm    Post subject:

I have UCLA vs Duke in the final... What are UCLA's chances of actually winning? Prefer to cheer for them but my instinct tells me Duke would be more likely to pull it off.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 4:13 pm    Post subject:

I signed up. I might have a west coast bias.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 7:01 pm    Post subject:

CandyCanes wrote:
I have UCLA vs Duke in the final... What are UCLA's chances of actually winning? Prefer to cheer for them but my instinct tells me Duke would be more likely to pull it off.


last time I looked at the Vegas lines...Duke had the best odds (5/1), and UCLA was in the top 10 (12/1). UCLA probably would have a little better odds, but they got handed a tough bracket.....have to go through Carolina and Kentucky!

Here was recent Westgate odds....

http://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/march-madness-2017-title-odds-kentucky-duke-north-carolina-championship-favorites-by-vegas/
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 10:26 pm    Post subject:

Lots of "experts" picked Duke to win it all....I don't even think they will make the Elite 8 and will get upset.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 1:56 am    Post subject:

Had my annual NCAA pool draft last night with my buddies. We've been doing this since the 7th grade back in 1989, so...yeah, a long time. There are 8 of us and we each draft 8 teams, and do a drawing for draft position in each odd-numbered round, and then go with the reverse in the following even-numbered round. You get a point each time one of your teams gets a win. I got the #5 overall pick and took Kansas, and then got Oregon with pick #12. I was shocked that Duke lasted until the #8 pick; the guy at 8/9 got Duke and Kentucky. (UCLA went 4th.) My 8 teams ended up as...

Kansas
Oregon
Middle Tennessee St.
Wisconsin
Kansas St.
Oklahoma St.
Kent St.
North Dakota

May the basketball gods be with them! Oh, and for the record, as a Bruin alum, I will NOT be rooting for Kent St. in the first round, even though I have them.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 6:06 am    Post subject:

ChickenStu wrote:
Had my annual NCAA pool draft last night with my buddies. We've been doing this since the 7th grade back in 1989, so...yeah, a long time. There are 8 of us and we each draft 8 teams, and do a drawing for draft position in each odd-numbered round, and then go with the reverse in the following even-numbered round. You get a point each time one of your teams gets a win. I got the #5 overall pick and took Kansas, and then got Oregon with pick #12. I was shocked that Duke lasted until the #8 pick; the guy at 8/9 got Duke and Kentucky. (UCLA went 4th.) My 8 teams ended up as...

Kansas
Oregon
Middle Tennessee St.
Wisconsin
Kansas St.
Oklahoma St.
Kent St.
North Dakota

May the basketball gods be with them! Oh, and for the record, as a Bruin alum, I will NOT be rooting for Kent St. in the first round, even though I have them.



I am in!!!

Also a UCLA alum, but this is business, cannot let my heart get in the way of "Victory" ( yup sure, victory )....Well I was co-champ of the NBA playoff pool last season (such a showoff )....

I have the Bruins all the way to the round of "8". But getting beat by the eventual champ Tarheels of North Carolina, real, real tough to do, but this is a man's game.

Good luck to you all....going to be fun, even when I watch my choices crash and burn on buzzer beaters...
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 4:38 pm    Post subject:

thanks for setting this up! I'm in
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 7:17 pm    Post subject:

I finished mine yesterday. Thanks for putting this together!
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 7:31 pm    Post subject:

Trojans come back again....and advance.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 11:06 pm    Post subject:

I wonder if USC coming back and winning has already messed up a bunch of brackets.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 12:04 am    Post subject:

thank you for allowing me to join in.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:29 am    Post subject:

30 minutes.....and then “It’s on like Donkey Kong
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:33 am    Post subject:

You are all going down!

J/k my bracket will be busted by noon Saturday. For those who created more than one bracket, shame on you
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:50 am    Post subject:

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You are all going down!

J/k my bracket will be busted by noon Saturday. For those who created more than one bracket, shame on you


I project everyones bracket will be in shambles by this weekend. If you can get your Final 4 teams to the second week/Sweet 16, I would consider that a success.

Everyone picked Jacksonville St. to go to the Elite 8, right?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:58 am    Post subject:

I don't watch College basketball and all my knowledge comes from following the draft thread here, so I had my dog make the picks for me.

My Final Four projection was: Gonzaga vs Duke / Purdue vs UCLA. UCLA beats Duke.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 8:01 am    Post subject:

I think there is going to be an upset out of the gate with one of the first three games...

Princeton / Notre Dame
UNCW / Virginia
Winthrop / Butler

looking like Virginia is volunteering to be that team


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 8:02 am    Post subject:

Eindhoven wrote:
I don't watch College basketball and all my knowledge comes from following the draft thread here, so I had my dog make the picks for me.

My Final Four projection was: Gonzaga vs Duke / Purdue vs UCLA. UCLA beats Duke.


I have lost to people that picked based on mascots....favorite colors...which school they would choose to go to......so there will be no shame in adding a dog to the list.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 8:11 am    Post subject:

adkindo wrote:
Eindhoven wrote:
I don't watch College basketball and all my knowledge comes from following the draft thread here, so I had my dog make the picks for me.

My Final Four projection was: Gonzaga vs Duke / Purdue vs UCLA. UCLA beats Duke.


I have lost to people that picked based on mascots....favorite colors...which school they would choose to go to......so there will be no shame in adding a dog to the list.


in best of 1 tournaments, randomness often wins the day. though if you go chalk over several years you'll have more consistent results. it's like a person playing all random will maybe get the champion right in a crazy year but get the entire final four wrong 9 times out of 10, but the person playing chalk will get 3/4 of the final four right 8 times out of 10.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:22 am    Post subject:

Notre Dame escapes the big upset...

Notre Dame - 60
Princeton - 58
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