Str8Hoosiers

I can take this for Friday... but still need a pick for today.

35 Games and the season is over... Thanks to all for participating.... Congrats to @IUsafety for correctly predicting Wichita State's final score. CONGRATS TO THE 2018/2019 WINNER @LIHoosier, Old Fart made a run but came up 1 point short. CURRENT GAME - NIT - Wichita St. OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 LamarCheeks 118 1 LIHoosier 3245 2 Josh 107 2 Class of '66 Old Fart 3244 3 IUsafety 73 3 fwgreenway 3241 4 Class of '66 Old Fart 64 4 HoosierAloha 3229 5 HoosierAloha 63 5 rcs29 3214 6 johnsoniu 62 6 johnsoniu 3208 7 InArchWeTrust 61 7 muttcs66 3177 8 Napleshoosier 60 8 IUsafety 3138 9 MoyeNeeded 60 9 LamarCheeks 3135 10 muttcs66 60 10 Josh 3107 11 eladuke 60 11 Naturalhoosier 3059 12 LIHoosier 59 12 cappymo14 3058 13 fwgreenway 59 13 Str8Hoosiers 3050 14 Naturalhoosier 59 14 JHoosier914 3025 15 DChoosier 59 15 ThompsonHoosier 3012 16 JHoosier914 58 16 Old Friend 2956 17 cappymo14 56 17 incrediboy 2952 18 ThompsonHoosier 56 18 Napleshoosier 2924 19 Str8Hoosiers 56 19 killerbeezer 2911 20 rcs29 56 20 Count 2908 21 incrediboy 56 21 InArchWeTrust 2825 22 mamasa 55 22 thebigweave 2765 23 thebigweave 54 23 mamasa 2745 24 killerbeezer 50 24 coonhounds 2699 25 Old Friend 50 25 MoyeNeeded 2624 26 coonhounds 46 26 DChoosier 2589 27 ALASKA HOOSIER 34 27 eladuke 2445 28 Bailey7878 0 28 Bailey7878 2280 29 bigrod 0 29 The Ola Depot 2239 30 Count 0 30 ALASKA HOOSIER 2227 31 Barrell Rick 0 31 Stuhoo 2220 32 Adillac 0 32 HoosierCoop 2163 33 Whojainjawja 0 33 MemphisHoosier 2114 34 HoosierRobbie 0 34 VO5 2090 35 IU Hoosier41 0 35 mdn82 1980 36 Joe DeLow 0 36 IUfan_Charlie 1957 37 indianaranger 0 37 WayneFleekHoosier 1897 38 iuecon99 0 38 wirenuts 1868 39 yogisballin 0 39 biteoftheapple 1856 40 HoosierCoop 0 40 reconmkd 1804 41 jbell833 0 41 Red1 1663 42 RatpigHoosier 0 42 jbell833 1599 43 Hoosier987 0 43 BtownBanner6 1442 44 Stuhoo 0 44 NRT137 1432 45 The Ola Depot 0 45 IUc2016 1400 46 FraneT 0 46 yogisballin 1299 47 VO5 0 47 bigrod 1205 48 wirenuts 0 48 HoosierRobbie 1167 49 DesertHoozier 0 49 KDB 1162 50 Rico 0 50 Woodson1980 786 51 mdn82 0 51 Adillac 645 52 tortex28 0 52 Dalton26 579 53 reconmkd 0 53 Joe DeLow 529 54 IUc2016 0 54 HoosierTrav 459 55 MemphisHoosier 0 55 ellen.walden 412 56 IUfan_Charlie 0 56 indianaranger 401 57 HoosierTrav 0 57 Me So Hornsby 398 58 Chris007 0 58 jrvarner31 358 59 biteoftheapple 0 59 patrickmorriso9 357 60 WayneFleekHoosier 0 60 IU Hoosier41 312 61 Bobman1 0 61 Hutch89 293 62 Red1 0 62 RatpigHoosier 268 63 landrus13 0 63 Chris007 230 64 BtownBanner6 0 64 tortex28 228 65 Hutch89 0 65 schoosier 203 66 e_powe11 0 66 Nick_Bragg13 198 67 ellen.walden 0 67 Hoosier987 195 68 NRT137 0 68 Ajwhitis 194 69 KDB 0 69 Whojainjawja 183 70 JaybobHoosier 0 70 Rico 166 71 hper50 0 71 e_powe11 165 72 Irish YJ 0 72 Bobman1 159 73 Woodson1980 0 73 JaybobHoosier 130 74 323SGrant 0 74 hper50 127 75 schoosier 0 75 monskisprodigy 121 76 Me So Hornsby 0 76 Irish YJ 121 77 monskisprodigy 0 77 Honkyman 119 78 Honkyman 0 78 323SGrant 115 79 Dalton26 0 79 saffo937 107 80 patrickmorriso9 0 80 dyedinthewool 105 81 jrvarner31 0 81 cleeter 95 82 dyedinthewool 0 82 Cr3amnCr1mson 91 83 Nick_Bragg13 0 83 tyappleg 91 84 Cr3amnCr1mson 0 84 iuecon99 90 85 tyappleg 0 85 Hooked 82 86 Ajwhitis 0 86 IU402 70 87 Hooked 0 87 DesertHoozier 59 88 IU402 0 88 FraneT 49 89 saffo937 0 89 landrus13 37 90 cleeter 0 90 Barrell Rick 25.5

Just to verify... pUKe is Kentucky not Duke correct? To me they both leave the same taste in my mouth afterwards. Changed? I didn't see a prior pick so I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something?

How does this work? Each week I will create Prediction League threads for the weeks game(s). It's a simple concept: Each week you start with 100 points (only if a prediction is made, otherwise 0 points for the week) +25 PTs if you guess the winner -25 PTs if you pick the loser +10 PTs if guess IU score correctly +10 PTs if guess Opponent score correct -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of IU (over/under doesn't matter) -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of opponent (over/under doesn't matter) *** Reminder if you post a prediction and want to change it, please just POST a NEW Prediction, do not edit a prior post as I may miss those edits. The person with the most points (MINUS 2 LOWEST GAMES) at the end of the season wins.

IU 72 Shockers 63 On to MSG

Got you on Gonzaga... However you can not use Houston.. You have already used them. (Sunday 3/24)

I am going to try to play it "safe" as last year we only had 1 person pick 1 game correctly in the Sweet 16... I will take #1 Virginia on Thursday 3/28 & #1 UNC on Friday 3/29

16 Survived the first weekend, 12 Eliminated.

Survive & Advance Congrats to @LIHoosier for claiming the TOP Spot on the leader Board. CURRENT GAME - NIT - Arkansas OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 LIHoosier 118 1 LIHoosier 3186 2 mamasa 116 2 fwgreenway 3182 3 cappymo14 107 3 Class of '66 Old Fart 3180 4 LamarCheeks 107 4 HoosierAloha 3166 5 ThompsonHoosier 106 5 rcs29 3158 6 johnsoniu 104 6 johnsoniu 3146 7 Class of '66 Old Fart 104 7 muttcs66 3117 8 Str8Hoosiers 103 8 IUsafety 3065 9 rcs29 103 9 LamarCheeks 3017 10 fwgreenway 102 10 cappymo14 3002 11 thebigweave 101 11 Josh 3000 12 Naturalhoosier 101 12 Naturalhoosier 3000 13 JHoosier914 101 13 Str8Hoosiers 2994 14 killerbeezer 100 14 JHoosier914 2967 15 IUsafety 99 15 ThompsonHoosier 2956 16 Napleshoosier 99 16 Count 2908 17 HoosierAloha 99 17 Old Friend 2906 18 MoyeNeeded 99 18 incrediboy 2896 19 Bailey7878 97 19 Napleshoosier 2864 20 incrediboy 97 20 killerbeezer 2861 21 muttcs66 95 21 InArchWeTrust 2764 22 Old Friend 91 22 thebigweave 2711 23 coonhounds 91 23 mamasa 2690 24 eladuke 91 24 coonhounds 2653 25 ALASKA HOOSIER 73 25 MoyeNeeded 2564 26 Josh 51 26 DChoosier 2530 27 bigrod 0 27 eladuke 2385 28 InArchWeTrust 0 28 Bailey7878 2280 29 Count 0 29 The Ola Depot 2239 30 Barrell Rick 0 30 Stuhoo 2220 31 Adillac 0 31 ALASKA HOOSIER 2193 32 DChoosier 0 32 HoosierCoop 2163 33 Whojainjawja 0 33 MemphisHoosier 2114 34 HoosierRobbie 0 34 VO5 2090 35 IU Hoosier41 0 35 mdn82 1980 36 Joe DeLow 0 36 IUfan_Charlie 1957 37 indianaranger 0 37 WayneFleekHoosier 1897 38 iuecon99 0 38 wirenuts 1868 39 yogisballin 0 39 biteoftheapple 1856 40 HoosierCoop 0 40 reconmkd 1804 41 jbell833 0 41 Red1 1663 42 RatpigHoosier 0 42 jbell833 1599 43 Hoosier987 0 43 BtownBanner6 1442 44 Stuhoo 0 44 NRT137 1432 45 The Ola Depot 0 45 IUc2016 1400 46 FraneT 0 46 yogisballin 1299 47 VO5 0 47 bigrod 1205 48 wirenuts 0 48 HoosierRobbie 1167 49 DesertHoozier 0 49 KDB 1162 50 Rico 0 50 Woodson1980 786 51 mdn82 0 51 Adillac 645 52 tortex28 0 52 Dalton26 579 53 reconmkd 0 53 Joe DeLow 529 54 IUc2016 0 54 HoosierTrav 459 55 MemphisHoosier 0 55 ellen.walden 412 56 IUfan_Charlie 0 56 indianaranger 401 57 HoosierTrav 0 57 Me So Hornsby 398 58 Chris007 0 58 jrvarner31 358 59 biteoftheapple 0 59 patrickmorriso9 357 60 WayneFleekHoosier 0 60 IU Hoosier41 312 61 Bobman1 0 61 Hutch89 293 62 Red1 0 62 RatpigHoosier 268 63 landrus13 0 63 Chris007 230 64 BtownBanner6 0 64 tortex28 228 65 Hutch89 0 65 schoosier 203 66 e_powe11 0 66 Nick_Bragg13 198 67 ellen.walden 0 67 Hoosier987 195 68 NRT137 0 68 Ajwhitis 194 69 KDB 0 69 Whojainjawja 183 70 JaybobHoosier 0 70 Rico 166 71 hper50 0 71 e_powe11 165 72 Irish YJ 0 72 Bobman1 159 73 Woodson1980 0 73 JaybobHoosier 130 74 323SGrant 0 74 hper50 127 75 schoosier 0 75 monskisprodigy 121 76 Me So Hornsby 0 76 Irish YJ 121 77 monskisprodigy 0 77 Honkyman 119 78 Honkyman 0 78 323SGrant 115 79 Dalton26 0 79 saffo937 107 80 patrickmorriso9 0 80 dyedinthewool 105 81 jrvarner31 0 81 cleeter 95 82 dyedinthewool 0 82 Cr3amnCr1mson 91 83 Nick_Bragg13 0 83 tyappleg 91 84 Cr3amnCr1mson 0 84 iuecon99 90 85 tyappleg 0 85 Hooked 82 86 Ajwhitis 0 86 IU402 70 87 Hooked 0 87 DesertHoozier 59 88 IU402 0 88 FraneT 49 89 saffo937 0 89 landrus13 37 90 cleeter 0 90 Barrell Rick 25.5

How does this work? Each week I will create Prediction League threads for the weeks game(s). It's a simple concept: Each week you start with 100 points (only if a prediction is made, otherwise 0 points for the week) +25 PTs if you guess the winner -25 PTs if you pick the loser +10 PTs if guess IU score correctly +10 PTs if guess Opponent score correct -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of IU (over/under doesn't matter) -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of opponent (over/under doesn't matter) *** Reminder if you post a prediction and want to change it, please just POST a NEW Prediction, do not edit a prior post as I may miss those edits. The person with the most points (MINUS 2 LOWEST GAMES) at the end of the season wins.

I don't usually get on as much on the weekends so I am going to risk Jinxing myself and go ahead and submit picks just in case I don't get on to update them.... Saturday 3/23 = #1 Gonzaga Sunday 3/24 = #3 Texas Tech

Here are the Picks for Today.... so you know who to Root Against LOL crazywillie #6 Iowa State LamarCheeks #4 Virginia Tech Drew L #7 Cincinnati HoosierFan1994 #6 Buffalo jbell833 #4 Virginia Tech johnsoniu #7 Cincinnati kbhoosiers #7 Cincinnati Class of '66 Old Fart #3 Texas Tech LIHoosier #4 Virginia Tech Rico #3 Texas Tech brumdog45 #3 Texas Tech BtownBanner6 #3 Houston CrossboneIU22 #3 Texas Tech HoosierAloha #4 Virginia Tech A.j. Nigh #6 Buffalo Josh #6 Buffalo Str8Hoosiers #3 Houston cleeter #3 Texas Tech Crimson and Cream #4 Virginia Tech JD22 #5 Mississippi State Naturalhoosier #3 Texas Tech Stuhoo #4 Virginia Tech Uspshoosier #4 Virginia Tech

My pick for today is #3 Houston.

5 People eliminated on Day 1 coonhounds #14 Old Dominion biteoftheapple #8 Syracuse Hoosiers High Life #11 Belmont mamasa #8 Syracuse Sam_Boger #8 Syracuse 23 Survived... (most have already made a pick for Day 2 but if you haven't please do so before noon) crazywillie #9 Baylor LamarCheeks #7 Wofford Drew L #6 Villanova HoosierFan1994 #6 Villanova jbell833 #6 Villanova johnsoniu #6 Villanova kbhoosiers #6 Villanova Class of '66 Old Fart #5 Auburn LIHoosier #5 Auburn Rico #5 Auburn brumdog45 #4 Florida State BtownBanner6 #4 Kansas CrossboneIU22 #4 Kansas HoosierAloha #4 Kansas A.j. Nigh #4 Kansas Josh #4 Kansas Str8Hoosiers #4 Kansas cleeter #3 Purdue Crimson and Cream #3 Purdue JD22 #3 Purdue Naturalhoosier #3 LSU Stuhoo #2 Kentucky Uspshoosier #2 Michigan

Sorry you didn't make a pick for 3/21.

2 Guards? Romeo, Al, Damezi, Rob... that is 4... and if Green wasn't here maybe we replace him with another... The narrative that he is ALL bad all the time is incorrect... the narrative that he has so many wasted possessions and more turnovers than the stat sheets say is incorrect. Yes I have watched him play every game for the past 3 seasons and yet I still get pumped when he is in the game and doing his thing (sometimes I get mad at a play etc). Lots of plays/passes are high risk, but every pass he makes you believe he should just do a simple bounce pass... every shot for a 40% shooter is not a bad shot or a wasted possession. I agree that there is a reason that he lost the job to Phinisee however I don't think it is the reason you think it is. I believe there were some very bad things going on behind the scenes and that is what made him lose minutes or the starting job, not his overall play. Nobody said you are wrong for your opinion on his style of play.. we can all agree we can all have our own opinions on that.

You have mentioned the 2 alley-oop passes multiple times... EVERY single pass by every player in a game would be a turnover if their teammate doesn't catch them "Clean them Up".... both were very catch-able passes and both had the opportunity to finish, they didn't but they still caught the pass... those are not turnovers no matter how detrimental that is to your narrative. We get it... you don't care for him or at least his style of play... It is ok for others (myself included) to have a different opinion on him... I truly believe we would have been a MUCH worse team without him all season long.

Posted in the Romeo thread... but applicable here as well... Post-Game presser Archie said Romeo probably wouldn't play this game either, but he kept alluding to it being a quick turnaround with a game on Thursday. Appears the game isn't until Saturday now... hopefully that gives the back time to feel better and this is truly an injury situation and nothing nefarious.

We turn the tables on them... IU 73 Hogs 72

Post-Game presser Archie said Romeo probably wouldn't play next game either, but he kept alluding to it being a quick turnaround with a game on Thursday. Appears the next game isn't until Saturday now... hopefully that gives the back time to feel better and this is truly an injury situation and nothing nefarious.

Everyone correctly predicted an IU Victory in this one... Congrats to @ALASKA HOOSIER for correctly predicting St Francis' Final Score Congrats to @fwgreenway for taking over the TOP Spot on the Leaderboard. CURRENT GAME - NIT - St Francis OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 ALASKA HOOSIER 121 1 fwgreenway 3080 2 Old Friend 119 2 Class of '66 Old Fart 3076 3 coonhounds 118 3 LIHoosier 3068 4 IUsafety 114 4 HoosierAloha 3067 5 muttcs66 113 5 rcs29 3055 6 cappymo14 113 6 johnsoniu 3042 7 Str8Hoosiers 112 7 muttcs66 3022 8 Bailey7878 112 8 IUsafety 2966 9 Napleshoosier 111 9 Josh 2949 10 incrediboy 111 10 LamarCheeks 2910 11 HoosierAloha 110 11 Naturalhoosier 2899 12 fwgreenway 108 12 cappymo14 2895 13 mamasa 108 13 Str8Hoosiers 2891 14 bigrod 107 14 Count 2873 15 thebigweave 106 15 JHoosier914 2866 16 johnsoniu 104 16 ThompsonHoosier 2850 17 Class of '66 Old Fart 103 17 Old Friend 2815 18 rcs29 103 18 incrediboy 2799 19 Naturalhoosier 101 19 Napleshoosier 2765 20 ThompsonHoosier 98 20 InArchWeTrust 2764 21 MoyeNeeded 98 21 killerbeezer 2761 22 LIHoosier 97 22 thebigweave 2610 23 JHoosier914 97 23 mamasa 2574 24 LamarCheeks 96 24 coonhounds 2562 25 Josh 94 25 DChoosier 2530 26 InArchWeTrust 94 26 MoyeNeeded 2465 27 Count 0 27 eladuke 2294 28 eladuke 0 28 The Ola Depot 2239 29 killerbeezer 0 29 Stuhoo 2220 30 Barrell Rick 0 30 Bailey7878 2183 31 Adillac 0 31 HoosierCoop 2163 32 DChoosier 0 32 ALASKA HOOSIER 2120 33 Whojainjawja 0 33 MemphisHoosier 2114 34 HoosierRobbie 0 34 VO5 2090 35 IU Hoosier41 0 35 mdn82 1980 36 Joe DeLow 0 36 IUfan_Charlie 1957 37 indianaranger 0 37 WayneFleekHoosier 1897 38 iuecon99 0 38 wirenuts 1868 39 yogisballin 0 39 biteoftheapple 1856 40 HoosierCoop 0 40 reconmkd 1804 41 jbell833 0 41 Red1 1663 42 RatpigHoosier 0 42 jbell833 1599 43 Hoosier987 0 43 BtownBanner6 1442 44 Stuhoo 0 44 NRT137 1432 45 The Ola Depot 0 45 IUc2016 1400 46 FraneT 0 46 yogisballin 1299 47 VO5 0 47 bigrod 1205 48 wirenuts 0 48 HoosierRobbie 1167 49 DesertHoozier 0 49 KDB 1162 50 Rico 0 50 Woodson1980 786 51 mdn82 0 51 Adillac 645 52 tortex28 0 52 Dalton26 579 53 reconmkd 0 53 Joe DeLow 529 54 IUc2016 0 54 HoosierTrav 459 55 MemphisHoosier 0 55 ellen.walden 412 56 IUfan_Charlie 0 56 indianaranger 401 57 HoosierTrav 0 57 Me So Hornsby 398 58 Chris007 0 58 jrvarner31 358 59 biteoftheapple 0 59 patrickmorriso9 357 60 WayneFleekHoosier 0 60 IU Hoosier41 312 61 Bobman1 0 61 Hutch89 293 62 Red1 0 62 RatpigHoosier 268 63 landrus13 0 63 Chris007 230 64 BtownBanner6 0 64 tortex28 228 65 Hutch89 0 65 schoosier 203 66 e_powe11 0 66 Nick_Bragg13 198 67 ellen.walden 0 67 Hoosier987 195 68 NRT137 0 68 Ajwhitis 194 69 KDB 0 69 Whojainjawja 183 70 JaybobHoosier 0 70 Rico 166 71 hper50 0 71 e_powe11 165 72 Irish YJ 0 72 Bobman1 159 73 Woodson1980 0 73 JaybobHoosier 130 74 323SGrant 0 74 hper50 127 75 schoosier 0 75 monskisprodigy 121 76 Me So Hornsby 0 76 Irish YJ 121 77 monskisprodigy 0 77 Honkyman 119 78 Honkyman 0 78 323SGrant 115 79 Dalton26 0 79 saffo937 107 80 patrickmorriso9 0 80 dyedinthewool 105 81 jrvarner31 0 81 cleeter 95 82 dyedinthewool 0 82 Cr3amnCr1mson 91 83 Nick_Bragg13 0 83 tyappleg 91 84 Cr3amnCr1mson 0 84 iuecon99 90 85 tyappleg 0 85 Hooked 82 86 Ajwhitis 0 86 IU402 70 87 Hooked 0 87 DesertHoozier 59 88 IU402 0 88 FraneT 49 89 saffo937 0 89 landrus13 37 90 cleeter 0 90 Barrell Rick 25.5

Bold Strategy Cotton! I like it.

How does this work? Each week I will create Prediction League threads for the weeks game(s). It's a simple concept: Each week you start with 100 points (only if a prediction is made, otherwise 0 points for the week) +25 PTs if you guess the winner -25 PTs if you pick the loser +10 PTs if guess IU score correctly +10 PTs if guess Opponent score correct -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of IU (over/under doesn't matter) -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of opponent (over/under doesn't matter) *** Reminder if you post a prediction and want to change it, please just POST a NEW Prediction, do not edit a prior post as I may miss those edits. The person with the most points (MINUS 2 LOWEST GAMES) at the end of the season wins.

Yes you can go ahead and submit both Thursday & Friday Picks. Not by Round... it is by DAY.... So to make it out of the first weekend for example you will have 4 correct picks (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, & Sunday)

This was a VERY tempting 1 for me.