How's everyone's bracket doing?

[MrBug708]

I'm 12 for 12 so far. 4 more games to go. I have Dayton, Arizona, Zags, and Air Force winning

[k0ruptr]

my bracket = jose canseco

cept nevada, they are awesome

nah im doin alright in my main bracket.
11/12 missed southern illinois

[DeToxRox]

10/12. missed southern illinois and msu

[k0ruptr]

i should be 10/12 cept last minute changed my pick to maryland instead of utep, sorry jeebs

[cmp]

I'm 10/12. Missed on Michigan State and Southern Illinois.

[vtbub]

10/12= mich st n princeton

[MacroGuru]

10/12 missed So Ill and Syracuse

[Comey]

11/12. Missed Southern Illinois.

[Logan]

Poor. Very very poor.

8/12 so far.

[Ryche]

11-12, only missed Manhatten so far. Had Florida losing in the next round anyway.

[ScottVib]

10/12 had Charlotte over Texas Tech and Michigan State over Nevada

The evenings round features a bunch of games I wasn't sure of... (namely UNC-Air Force and DePaul-Dayton) so I'm not sure just how good (or poorly) I'll be looking at the end of the day.

[bigdawg2003]

9/12

Missed Texas Tech, Maryland, and Alabama. Oh well, had the others out in the 2nd round, so no major damage

[Easy Mac]

9/12 missing S. Illinois, Michigan St. and Princeton

[Easy Mac]

dola, and I won't care if UNC loses and messes up my bracket.

[DeToxRox]

Dayton, Zona, UNC, Zags for me

[Draft Dodger]

Charlotte, Florida and MSU for me so far. MSU's the only team of the 3 I had getting out of the 2nd round, so no big loss so far.

now I just need 'Bama to beat Stanford in Rnd 2 and I'll be back on track.

[Rizon]

13/16
Charlotte, Florida, S. Illinois

[Sublime]

Good Day for me!! 14/16

Florida and BYU....BYU almost pulled it out for me and damnit if Florida doesn't always choke when i pick em!

[grdawg]

15/16 on 2 brackets - sorry ass Arizona stood b/w me and perfection.

[kingnebwsu]

15/16, missed S. Illini who I had in the Sweet 16. My best day I think ever. :)

[MrBug708]

Ended up at 13/16

Dayton, Arizona, and Air Force. My South bracket is screwed up. If MSU loses, I'm done in that region.

[sterlingice]

I always have my main bracket and my fun bracket.

Basically, the concept is that the main bracket is the artistic one: the upsets picked are calculated risks, mostly early and few go too far but there has to be at least one or two unlikely seeds in the Sweet 16. You know they'll be there, so why not try to pick them. If you pick all the favorites, you deserve your place in the middle of the pack, nothing ventured and nothing gained. In a bracket like this, it's all about calculated risk. If a stronger team has a tougher road, I tend to take the slightly weaker team with the much easier road (Okie State as opposed to Pitt, for instance). This leads to less of a bracket collapse if Wisconsin or Richmond upends Pitt but if Pitt makes it to face Okie State, they have the edge because they're the better team. For this bracket, the money in the bank is to be made in the last few rounds, not picking the all out favorite because the consensus #1 rarely wins and when they go down, I'm there to pick up the bracket pieces. Any bracket that loses its number 1 is in trouble, but if I lose mine before the Final 4, I might as well pack it in. So, yeah, I'm banking on Kentucky not winning it all (tho, I do have them in my title game) and I need Stanford to go far, for instance.

Today, in my main bracket, I went 9/16 which is pretty bad but of those 7 teams I lost, I only lost 1 Sweet 16 team so as long as Saturday falls my way, I've lost very little.

Then there's the upset bracket. This is the one that if you get some of these longshots right, you just sit back and grin if something falls your way. By the end of the first weekend, it's probably in tatters. If not, it's pretty damn cool when you're the only one in your bracket group with that Charlotte-Manhattan Sweet 16 match picked correctly. This is all about looking at the weak seeds (St Joes, Vandy, Florida, etc) and just attacking their side of the bracket. You think St Joes is overseeded? Why not put your money where your mouth is, see which of Texas Tech and Charlotte matches up better and pick them to beat them. Like St Joes somewhat but think Manhattan is going to take down Florida? Why not have them in the Sweet 16 after upsetting Wake? I mean, after all, Wake's erratic and it's well within the realm of possibility.

This bracket has issues today as Charlotte was an E8 team (yes, I had that aforementioned Charlotte-Manhattan S16 game). Overall, I went 9 for 16, like my main bracket. I did lose another S16 team as I had the somewhat improbable (but possible) Arizona over Duke. I still think Illinois has a good shot to knock off Duke, so I'm not hurting too much there. Then again, if they go out and lay an egg tomorrow, I might as well toss my bracket out the window.

SI

[Poli]

12 of 16. Missed Arizona, Michigan State, SIU, and Dayton.

[TargetPractice6]

12/16
Mich St, Arizona, Charlotte, Dayton

[Marmel]

My official bracket? 13/16, missing Mich State, Charlotte and DePaul.

On my other bracket? 14/16, I picked DePaul.

[SackAttack]

Nevada screwed me in the St. Louis regional, where I'm 1/2 (thank God for Gonzaga).

fortunately, I only had Mich St. winning one game anyway, so unless Gonzaga gets stunned, that's the extent of my damage in that bracket (so far).

I went 3/4 in East Rutherford, with Florida being my mis-step. That one hurts, because I had Florida going to the Sweet Sixteen.

Sentimentally, I'm bummed that Air Force lost, but I had picked North Carolina to beat 'em, so I'm 4-4 in Atlanta so far.

I misfired on Southern Illinois, UTEP, and Dayton in Phoenix, but again, I only had their opponents winning the one game anyway, so as long as Stanford, UConn, and Syracuse take care of business, the damage is minimized.

All in all, I'm 11/16 but, again, all five of the teams I picked to win who lost I had bowing out in the next round anyway, so I still have a shot at being 58/63 when the dust clears, if the rest of my picks work out. :D

[AgustusM]

Im not doing very well at 10-6, and to make it worse my wife is 16-0!!! Only good part is the winning pot is over a grand. If she wins it could help pay for our vacation, but then again I would have to listen to her brag.

[HeavyReign]

I missed on Florida, BYU, Arizona, S Illinois, and UTEP. Florida and BYU are big losses as I had them in the sweet 16.

[Suicane75]

I just checked ESPN and on 1 of my brackets i'm 16-16, not a bad start.

[SackAttack]

I missed on Florida, BYU, Arizona, S Illinois, and UTEP. Florida and BYU are big losses as I had them in the sweet 16.

You'd think the developer of FBCB would be able to do better than that. :D

[ice4277]

My 'main' bracket (money bracket) has me at 13-3. I missed out on Michigan State, Southern Illinois, and Arizona. However, I had all those teams going out in the second round, so it really doesn't matter. They way I look at it is, how many Elite Eight teams do you keep in the competition? My goal after the first weekend is to have seven left. You are in pretty good shape if you can get that.

[SirFozzie]

My two brackets are 11/16 and 12/16.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I was 9/10 if we don't have to look at Phoenix (although I had Florida going E8)
I'm 12/16 if we have to include that region (missed SIU, UTEP, Dayton although I had none of them going any further).

I've got WMU, South Carolina, and UAB for upsets today, otherwise I need the seedings to hold to get my bracket back on track.

[Ksyrup]

I think I've got everyone beat - 10/16!

Although in fairness (to me!), I took a grand total of 3 minutes to fill out the brackets, and I know next to nothing about 85% of college basketball teams, anyway. I got sucked into the office pool at the last minute. I'll probably get beat by the secretary who was making picks based on word association (stuff like, "Oh, I used to live on Richmond Street!").

[Easy Mac]

My main bracket died last night... I'm 11/16. In all but 1 game that I've missed I picked the lower seed.

[ice4277]

My main bracket died last night... I'm 11/16. In all but 1 game that I've missed I picked the lower seed.
I have been burned by lower seeds too many times in the past to pick them very often on my main bracket. This year, Manhattan and Western Michigan were the two lowest seeds I picked. Usually I pick about twice that number, but I am glad I didn't this time around. As an aside, I did pick Air Force in the FOFC ESPN bracket, but changed to UNC at the last minute in my 'money' bracket.

[Samdari]

Started 9/12 but got 3 of the last 4 (damn Dayton). I missed most of my picks out west, picking SIU (who I had over Stanford - go Bama!) the aforementioned Dayton, and UTEP.

Tough night session, huh MrBug. You angered the bracket gods by publicly announcing that you were perfect.

[cmp]

12/16. Michigan St., Dayton, So. Illinois, and Arizona

[k0ruptr]

perfect today so far. so in my main bracket that makes me 21/24? im getting lucky tho it seems .

my fun bracket got screwed, well one of many fun brackets. 16/24 lol and lost 2 sweet 16s

[Kodos]

20-4, with MSU as my only loser who I picked to win in the second round.

MSU, Florida, Dayton, and Southern Illinois were my losses.

[Suicane75]

22-2 but im kind of screwed cause i had Northern Iowa going to the sweet 16.

[Wolfpack]

20-4 in my best bracket. My FOFC ESPN bracket (the one I consider my "official" one) is 17-7. Best I can say is that the majority of my brackets still have at least 14 of 16 surviving Sweet 16 picks and all Elite 8s. One bracket is going down in flames, though, at 15-9 and has lost 5 Sweet 16 and one Elite 8 (Mich. State).

Not doing too badly. This weekend should provide a shakeup, though, especially if high seeds start to fall.

[corbes]

I'm 19-5, but lost Charlotte in the Sweet 16 and Arizona in the Elite 8. Other three losses were Arizona, UTEP (that was for you, Jeeber), and Dayton. Started the tourney 0-3, have gone 19-2 since then.

[RPI-Fan]

Wow, I'm 19-5 in my Yahoo bracket, with 1 Elite Eight team gone (UF), but nobody else missing from the S16.

However, a few minutes ago, I checked the bracket I did for a contest with people from Atlanta, and wouldn't you know I'm 22-2! Only Florida was going to the S16, and no farther. I have all the favorites picked tonight, but some rather large upsets in the next round. Bracket could run out to a huge, huge lead after the weekend, or fall behind with no hope of climbing back up.

[nol]

17-7 with all Sweet 16 teams intact.

[mtaystl03]

Yesterday I was 14-16, missing on Arizona and Dayton.

Today so far I am only missing on ETSU.

[korme]

21/24.

UTEP, Charlotte, and Arizona steered me wrong.

[VPI97]

19-5, but I had none of my misses moving past round 2....I feel good about it so far.

[Easy Mac]

my bracket has turn into a low budget scat film.

[Noop]

what is scat?

[korme]

you don't want to know noop..

[Easy Mac]

search in google.

[Noop]

Easy Mac I am forever scarred by what I have seen...people actually do this?

[Easy Mac]

I have no idea.... but you can see for you saw what the net has to offer.

[JonInMiddleGA]

18-6, but I've lost an Elite 8 already.
(And if Kentucky doesn't figure out what "defense" is at some point, my bracket will be FUBAR)

[ice4277]

I am doing pretty good, still have not lost a Sweet 16 team; however, if Wisconsin and Providence go down, ouch.

[sterlingice]

*yawn* This is just a really boring bracket year. The higher seeds bracket has only missed 3 seeds so far. :p

SI

[Ksyrup]

I'm in last place...but I did pick Pacific!

[JeeberD]

22-6 so far and only one Sweet Sixteen team out (I'll give you one guess who that team was). But unless Chi-Ill picks it up I'm going to have two out here...

[MrBug708]

Jeeb, it's very bad karma to pick your team to do better then they should do....

[sterlingice]

Jeeb, it's very bad karma to pick your team to do better then they should do....
That's to be saved for your wacky upset bracket.

SI

[Easy Mac]

In 1 bracket, I missed 11 games and 4 of my sweet 16 teams are gone (though no elite 8). In the other bracket, I missed 9 games and 1 of my sweet 16 teams are gone (none of my elite 8).

Yet somehow, I have the exact same score in the ESPN game... go figure.

[sterlingice]

I'm 15-11 in the first round on my main bracket, but I've only lost 1 Sweet 16 team and nothing further. This weekend will be a biggie. I think it's time for some big bracket-crushing upsets!

My wacky bracket is also 15-11 (not the same 15/11, mind you). It's lost a pair of S16 teams and an E8 team.

SI

[mtaystl03]

I was 26 of 32 in the first round games. I have two sweet 16 teams out in Providence and Western Michigan. My final four is Kentucky, Wake Forest, UNC and Stanford.

I have Kentucky winning it all over Stanford. The only other real suprise I have is Wisconsin playing Wake in the Elite 8.

I could see Texas Tech beating St. Joe's today which would be nice. Then again, I could see Manhattan beating Wake as well. Should be fun!

[hoopsguy]

I ended up playing straight seeds to the Elite 8, with the one exception being Wake Forest who I have losing in the title game to Stanford. So it was a very good first round for me, but means so very little in terms of winning a pool. I'm usually the guy who sneers at the guy in first at this point, pointing out that he may be 28-4 but has lost a Final Four team. So it is a little weird to be on the other end of the spectrum.

[JeeberD]

Jeeb, it's very bad karma to pick your team to do better then they should do....

Ehh, well, I really felt like the Miners had the talent and heart to compete with and beat both Maryland and Syracuse. It's not like I would have predicted them doing that if they were a #15 seed or anything...

[cthomer5000]

I was 26-6 on my first round picks. 5 of the 6 I was wrong on were as minor as possible (I had those 5 all losing in the next round anyway). Michigan State however, hurts. I had them facing Kentucky in the quarterfinals.

for anyone who cares, teams i incorrectly picked:

Michigan State
Providence
Princeton
Arizona
Lousiville
Dayton

[Sun Tzu]

The left one use to always hang lower than the right one, but since about 2 year ago they've been equal.

[korme]

27 of 32. Damn you Xavier!!

[k0ruptr]

28/32

[Suicane75]

30-32 on the fofc yahoo thingy, but lost 2 games today already, oofah.

[gstelmack]

Alabama beat Stanford? There goes my national champion. Anyone else completely screwed by this one game?

[sterlingice]

Alabama beat Stanford? There goes my national champion. Anyone else completely screwed by this one game?
My bracket is officially FUBAR. Now it's time to cheer for as many upsets as possible and KU to win it all (not that I wasn't going to do that anyways).

SI

[hoopsguy]

Yep, my bracket is toast. Knew being the leader after round 1 was bad mojo. Time to just enjoy the tournament for what it is rather than hoping to make any $$$ of it.

[k0ruptr]

WOW my main bracket at home here, I had alabama beating stanford. I just took the lead :)

I did lose zaga tho.

[Draft Dodger]

now I just need 'Bama to beat Stanford in Rnd 2 and I'll be back on track.

*cough* *cough*
too bad the rest of my picks weren't this good...

[Rizon]

Alabama beat Stanford? There goes my national champion. Anyone else completely screwed by this one game?

Grr .... I should have known better to pick a team from the Choke Area.

[cthomer5000]

I lost a final four team (Maryland) yesterday, which really hurts.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I'm already down
2 Sweet 16's (Gonzaga, Texas Tech)
1 Elite 8 (Florida)
1 Final Four (Stanford)

Had Xavier, so at least I'm good there.

[Peregrine]

Stanford and Gonzaga lost? Must be East Coast bias!

[JonInMiddleGA]

Stanford and Gonzaga lost? Must be East Coast bias!
LMAO http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/%7Efof/forums/images/smilies/cool.gif

[JonInMiddleGA]

Meanwhile, Georgia Tech appears determined to repeat their performance from Friday, i.e. Start Fast and then vanish.

[Hobbes-]

I picked Xavier over Miss State WOOT!

[sterlingice]

Stanford and Gonzaga lost? Must be East Coast bias!
I would say the Zags got the short end of the stick from the officiating side, which isn't common for a much higher seed.

SI

[TargetPractice6]

They may not have gotten the calls but they were still beat by a lot. The game wasn't on here so I dont know, but do you think fairer officiating would have closed the defecit for Gonzaga?

[sterlingice]

They may not have gotten the calls but they were still beat by a lot. The game wasn't on here so I dont know, but do you think fairer officiating would have closed the defecit for Gonzaga?
Are you getting the Okie State or seen any of it? Today, everything they do is called "hustle" and all those lovely announcer synonyms. Yesterday, everytime Gonzaga tried to do something like that, it was a foul so they could never try to aggressively go after it on defense.

Refs have so much of an influence that people just don't want to acknowledge. You call a game tight, it favors one team, you call a game loose, it's going to favor another. And when you take a team out of their game, that's when teams can never come back.

I'm not saying Blake Stepp being colder than Vladivostok in January wasn't a big factor, but it wouldn't have been nearly that big of a deal and they wouldn't have had to keep feeding him if Turiaf had more than 10 minutes in the game. He got called for ticky tack fouls, had to sit out most of the game and still got double digits in points because nothing Nevada could do could stop him. Yet, because he wasn't in there, Gonzaga had to completely change their game.

SI

[k0ruptr]

WOOHOO LETS GO UAB

[JeeberD]

Well, with Kentucky's loss I'm officially done. I had them winning it all...

[cthomer5000]

I'm down 2 final 4 teams, but i still have my championship matchup particpants....

not looking good.

[k0ruptr]

in all my brackets i still have my final fours. just luck i think, but i was never high on kentucky.

[sterlingice]

Woohoo! Goodbye shredded brackets! If Illinois can beat Duke and Vandy beats UConn, we can officially enter bracket hell where people who had something like an Oklahoma St-Texas matchup win it all.

SI

[JonInMiddleGA]

Well, with Kentucky's loss I'm officially done. I had them winning it all...
I was curious, so I checked ... and sure enough, the "scenario generator" can be run on anyone's picks, not just on your own picks.

And from what I could figure out, if all of your other still-possible predictions held true, there's still one way you could win the FOFC group ... if UAB wins the national championship.

I'm even more screwed (with both Kentucky & Stanford gone) ... the only scenario I could find that gives me a group win is for
a) Alabama or Vandy to reach the Final Four
AND
b) Georgia Tech to win the championship

[k0ruptr]

this on the espn one?

[JonInMiddleGA]

this on the espn one?
Oops, my bad ... that's on the Yahoo one
(I should said which )

[k0ruptr]

oh ok lol, holy crap i just looked at my espn bracket and im horrible in that one jeez

[Easy Mac]

My bracket is only good for giving me paper cuts.

[INDalltheway]

Woohoo! Goodbye shredded brackets! If Illinois can beat Duke and Vandy beats UConn, we can officially enter bracket hell where people who had something like an Oklahoma St-Texas matchup win it all.

SI
In my bracket I have Illionois winning it all... If it happens I will win because no one else has picked them.

[Marmel]

My wife is beating all of us in the ESPN bracket group I set up. :(

How embarrassing.

[k0ruptr]

lmao

[duckman]

Alabama beat Stanford? There goes my national champion. Anyone else completely screwed by this one game?


Yep, that totally destroyed my bracket. :(

[Kodos]

Let's see.

Stanford picked to go to final? Check.

Kentucky picked to go to final? Check.

Bracked hopelessly f***ed? Check. :(

The NFL offseason just got even less interesting...

[antbacker]

Three of my Final Four still alive (GT, Duke, Ok St), with Duke vs Ok St in the championship. C'mon Dukies! :p

[Wolfpack]

Well, I have one bracket that's imploded like the Vet (24-24, yikes). My "official" ESPN bracket sits at 30-18 along with one other bracket. My best bracket sits at 35-13, but will be hurt bad this coming round as it only has two Elite 8s left and only one of the final two left, though the champ is still up. My homer bracket (where I picked State to win) is actually doing well (34-14), but obviously the incredible disappearing lead trick against Vanderbilt will see to its eventual demise. Right now, I have a few brackets that could do well because they still have at least 4 or 5 elite 8s and 3 or 4 of the Final Four still in it. Everything else is pretty much burnt to the ground now.

[sterlingice]

Let's see.

Stanford picked to go to final? Check.

Kentucky picked to go to final? Check.

Bracked hopelessly f***ed? Check. :(

The NFL offseason just got even less interesting...
Oh, c'mon. You can't tell me that winning your pool is the only reason you watch the tourney.

SI