View Full Version : OT: NCAA March Madness Tourney!?
irishdenny
03-16-2013, 06:54 PM
Lately, I barely have enough time to browse the board...
But in the past, someone would of mentioned the "NCAA Madness Tourney" by now!
Is any one else as curious as I am about having the Tournament this year?
I'd love to be in it... I just don't have the time to set it up!
mattsey9
03-16-2013, 09:06 PM
Go Hoosiers!
I hope someone will step up and create the Net 54 NCAA BB challenge.
GoldenAge50s
03-16-2013, 11:00 PM
Me too!
deadballfreaK
03-16-2013, 11:18 PM
Go Hoosiers!
As an Indiana native I will be cheering for the Hoosiers all the way.
I tried to create a Net 54 Group on ESPN and make it open to everyone here, etc. but my computer savViness (or total lack thereof) didn't allow me to figure it out. Could someone else please try???
mattsey9
03-17-2013, 07:16 PM
http://net54.mayhem.cbssports.com/e?ttag=13_cbs
Password is net54
Group name is net54 bracket 2013
Shoele$$
03-17-2013, 08:18 PM
I might be in the minority, but basketball is one sport I can do without ever seeing again. The sport as a whole does nothing for me. Can't stand it on the college level and hate it even more at the NBA level with it's wanna be thug players and culture.
GoldenAge50s
03-17-2013, 11:01 PM
Thanks Mike--I signed up to play.
GoldenAge50s
03-18-2013, 10:43 AM
I forgot who won last yr, but hoping the Chase Trophy card is still available to the winner this year?
Scott T
03-18-2013, 01:55 PM
I forgot who won last yr, but hoping the Chase Trophy card is still available to the winner this year?
It is and it is not.
As your reigning King, I plan on repeating!
jbbama
03-18-2013, 05:11 PM
In it to win it...........................")
SetBuilder
03-18-2013, 05:14 PM
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSmF7MYKxGY-KR6o0InfkQhCuqOH9WMe3jrdjkE4JlXEnztcvcyww
sycks22
03-18-2013, 07:37 PM
Jackrabbits over Wolverines.
HOF Auto Rookies
03-18-2013, 07:43 PM
I have a large pool made, I posted a new thread on it
rc4157
03-18-2013, 08:31 PM
Thanks for setting this up!
RC
http://net54.mayhem.cbssports.com/e?ttag=13_cbs
Password is net54
Group name is net54 bracket 2013
Thanks Mike. No offense to the other guy posting but $10 a bracket is ridiculous when every past year has been free.
tbob
Past two time winner of the Hal Chase card :D
HOF Auto Rookies
03-18-2013, 09:40 PM
Thanks Mike. No offense to the other guy posting but $10 a bracket is ridiculous when every past year has been free.
tbob
Past two time winner of the Hal Chase card :D
It's not so ridiculous when there may be close to $1,000 up for grabs. But it's your choice, I just simply posted another option incase members wanted to potentially do a large cash pool.
mattsey9
03-19-2013, 10:00 AM
21 runners signed up at this point.
Peter_Spaeth
03-19-2013, 11:02 AM
I might be in the minority, but basketball is one sport I can do without ever seeing again. The sport as a whole does nothing for me. Can't stand it on the college level and hate it even more at the NBA level with it's wanna be thug players and culture.
I don't hate it yet, but I agree that at both levels it is not nearly as enjoyable to watch as it used to be. A typical midseason NBA game is like watching grass grow.
Big Ben
03-20-2013, 12:16 AM
I'm in. Thanks for setting this up.
Shoele$$
03-20-2013, 12:44 AM
I don't hate it yet, but I agree that at both levels it is not nearly as enjoyable to watch as it used to be. A typical midseason NBA game is like watching grass grow.
I agree, the last time I watched basketball was during the 90's with Bird, Magic, Jordan, Hakeem O. etc. when the game IMO was different. I'm just not into the "new age" game with the attitude, culture and style of play nowadays. I just pass right over the game altogether when channel flipping, don't even watch a second of it now. For me it's Baseball, Football and Hockey....in that order ;)
Orioles1954
03-20-2013, 06:28 AM
I still find college basketball to be quite enjoyable, especially at the small conference level. The NBA is unwatchable though.
autograf
03-20-2013, 06:49 AM
As a Louisville fan, I'm enjoying it a lot....especially this year. Hoping my guys keep it going for 6 more games.....GO CARDS....
mattsey9
03-20-2013, 07:03 AM
As a Louisville fan, I'm enjoying it a lot....especially this year. Hoping my guys keep it going for 6 more games.....GO CARDS....
As an Indiana alum, I'm sure you're as thrilled as I am about last night's Robert Morris/Kentucky NIT final :D
slidekellyslide
03-20-2013, 09:26 AM
As a Nebraska fan I hardly know what a basketball looks like.
GoldenAge50s
03-21-2013, 09:05 AM
Hope everybody that wanted to play got in. I couldn't access the site for the last 1/2 hour--- last minute overload I would guess!
BengoughingForAwhile
03-21-2013, 09:21 AM
GO ILLINI! WE can beat anyone in this tournament but we could also lose to anyone. We've proven that this year!
sycks22
03-21-2013, 09:48 AM
GO ILLINI! WE can beat anyone in this tournament but we could also lose to anyone. We've proven that this year!
Same with my Gophs
mattsey9
03-21-2013, 10:21 AM
And we're off!
34 Entrants in total. I hope you all finish tied for second!
aabram23
03-21-2013, 03:37 PM
Way to go Shockers!!! Although its sad to see a once baseball powerhouse turn into a basketball school.
GoldenAge50s
03-21-2013, 07:21 PM
When I go to the website & try to look at my bracket sheet, it's blank (like it was never filled out) but on the composite my totals show along w/ everyone else.
How/what do I do to see my bracket sheet so I can see what games I missed on?
When Arkansas and Kentucky were powerhouses the SEC was a great league. Lately Arkansas has been mediocre at best and Kentucky losing to Robert Morris in the 1st round of the NIT shows how this once great conference has fallen. Even new addition Missouri is getting wrecked by Colorado State. Other than Florida the SEC was putrid this year. Thank God for football, baseball and track. (NCAA champs Alabama, South Carolina, Arkansas).
How many people had Harvard? WOW!
AMBST95
03-22-2013, 05:29 AM
How many people had Harvard? WOW!
Not many. Talk about a bracket breaker. I know the analysts were high on them. Goes to show anything can happen. All it takes is some hot 3pt shooting and you can hang with and beat anybody!
mattsey9
03-22-2013, 09:55 AM
Not many. Talk about a bracket breaker. I know the analysts were high on them. Goes to show anything can happen. All it takes is some hot 3pt shooting and you can hang with and beat anybody!
Steve Alford had the good sense to sign his 10-year extension before the game. Love him for 1987, but he's laid some eggs in big games as a coach.
GoldenAge50s
03-22-2013, 05:50 PM
The WEST brackets are killin' me!:(
Jlighter
03-22-2013, 06:05 PM
The WEST brackets are killin' me!:(
It's killin' everyone. So far I only have two correct picks out of the region.
barrysloate
03-22-2013, 07:17 PM
I bet nobody picked Florida Gulf Coast!
Jlighter
03-22-2013, 07:29 PM
I bet nobody picked Florida Gulf Coast!
Georgetown was highly overrated. I didn't have them losing to Gulf Coast, but I did have them losing in the Sweet 16.
HercDriver
03-22-2013, 07:58 PM
The Illini put up a victory, despite getting only three buckets in the 2nd half...ILL! INI!
Take Care,
Geno
batsballsbases
03-22-2013, 08:21 PM
Well with my oldest son in Duke Medical School I have to say Duke all the way!;) Thats him (he goes to most of the games) claping his hands just above the ball!! Gotta love it! And coach K!!!
Speaking of Gulf Coast Florida University, perhaps you noticed the coach's wife in the stands and thought she looked familiar. Here she is on the cover of Maxim magazine in 2003. (Isn't the internet amazing :) )
deadballfreaK
03-23-2013, 02:36 AM
After their win today he'll get a million dollar raise and be able to dump her for a younger model.
jbbama
03-24-2013, 08:53 AM
Rank and Champion pick
1
ryan christoff
Indiana (134)
2
James Walker
Indiana (139)
3
bama jb
Louisville (149)
3
John Effenheim
Louisville (142)
5
Bill Stone
Louisville (124)
5
Richard Bono
Indiana (130)
7
Daniel Bretta
Louisville (157)
7
Richard Cline
Miami (Fla.) (163)
9
Adam Bell
Louisville (135)
9
Jan Jenkins
Ohio St. (143)
9
Mike Brockman
Louisville (149)
9
Peter Sycks
Louisville
ElCabron
03-24-2013, 10:09 AM
I'll enjoy the top spot for the next few minutes. I should fall to the middle of the pack by the end of the day due to some truly goofy picks in today's games. Unless they're genius picks! What's the number in parentheses next to the championship pick?
-Ryan
GoldenAge50s
03-24-2013, 11:39 AM
I just read this:
Fact of the Day (don't quote me)
The odds of picking a perfect bracket randomly are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 1, or more than nine quintillion to one. (So ... you're saying I have a chance ... ):)
aabram23
03-24-2013, 11:45 AM
How about them shockers!!! When I played baseball there the basketball team was so bad you could practically sit on the bench with the team during the games.
mattsey9
03-24-2013, 02:42 PM
Go Hoosiers!
I'm feeling sick right now...
jbbama
03-24-2013, 06:14 PM
I'll enjoy the top spot for the next few minutes. I should fall to the middle of the pack by the end of the day due to some truly goofy picks in today's games. Unless they're genius picks! What's the number in parentheses next to the championship pick?
-Ryan
I think that is the max possible points that person can accumulate.
GoldenAge50s
03-24-2013, 07:23 PM
If there is a more FUN team in America to watch play basketball than FGCU I haven't seen them yet! Another amazing 2nd half display to anniliate SDSU.
No matter who your team is you gotta' love these guys.
AMBST95
03-24-2013, 07:53 PM
As a Pitt alum, I was pretty ticked Thursday night and didn't watch many games after 4, but then on Friday I got to see LaSalle and FGCU win, which kind of brought me back in to the tourney. Saturday night's Butler/Marquette game was amazing and tonight has been fun watching FGCU play their "playground style" of game. I'm just happy that I still have my Final 4 in play.
If there is a more FUN team in America to watch play basketball than FGCU I haven't seen them yet! Another amazing 2nd half display to anniliate SDSU.
No matter who your team is you gotta' love these guys.
batsballsbases
03-24-2013, 10:02 PM
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Duke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't know why but this is by FAR the least interest showed in the NCAA tourney brackets on Net 54 and I have been here since the first contest.
I think the fact IrishDenny and his predecesors didn't have the usual contest set up on ESPN (thanks for doing this in the past) and it was switched to CBS.com and the group was splintered in to other tourney bracket contests probably played a part. I miss the good old days (the last 10 years) of all the bb talk :(
Jlighter
03-29-2013, 10:55 PM
And with the Florida win my Bracket moves into the top 800,000.:eek:
Scott T
03-30-2013, 10:10 AM
As your reigning King, may I assume I will be sending the "trophy" card to the winner of the CBS bracket?
cmoore330
03-30-2013, 08:09 PM
The Shockers are in the final four! Couldn't be more proud of my second alma mater!
irishdenny
03-30-2013, 10:00 PM
Don't know why but this is by FAR the least interest showed in the NCAA tourney brackets on Net 54 and I have been here since the first contest.
I think the fact IrishDenny and his predecesors didn't have the usual contest set up on ESPN (thanks for doing this in the past) and it was switched to CBS.com and the group was splintered in to other tourney bracket contests probably played a part. I miss the good old days (the last 10 years) of all the bb talk :(
Nope... I used ESPN last year, Wish I had the time to even play this year!
Ps If I misUnderstood you tbob!?, My Apologies...
AMBST95
04-01-2013, 12:26 PM
It looks like I'm falling just short. 2nd place is the first loser!
Nope... I used ESPN last year, Wish I had the time to even play this year!
Ps If I misUnderstood you tbob!?, My Apologies...
AMBST95
04-08-2013, 01:02 PM
The championship game is tonight. I would think Louisville should be able to take it.
slidekellyslide
04-08-2013, 01:18 PM
Nobody picked Michigan so it looks like I'm the winner of the Net54 tourney. :)
I think Michigan is a bigger underdog than +3.5, but I still have to say...
GO BLUE!!!
Scott T
04-09-2013, 02:03 PM
Nobody picked Michigan so it looks like I'm the winner of the Net54 tourney. :)
As Champion Emeritus, please send me your details and I will (reluctantly) send you my trophy card to babysit for a year.
I shall return.
Scott
Nope... I used ESPN last year, Wish I had the time to even play this year!
Ps If I misUnderstood you tbob!?, My Apologies...
I probably mistyped, what I meant was the fact that you and the predecessors setting up the contest on ESPN made it more accessible and fun than this year's contest on CBS.