Bracketology and Team Resumes

[Ryno6284]

1 hour ago, Uspshoosier said:

If they play on Tuesday I won’t be there.  Mrs usps work decided to throw in a mandatory work thing where no one can put in leave for those days so we are missing Tuesday.   Now if they play Wednesday I will definitely be hate watching 

You can hate watch at home on the "main" TV!

[Ryno6284]

1 hour ago, LIHoosier said:

It would have been fun though to watch IU beat NC State and see USPS get arrested for a one-man court storm.

 

1 hour ago, LIHoosier said:

It would have been fun though to watch IU beat NC State and see USPS get arrested for a one-man court storm.

Hell yeah!  Tom Crean style!  I would've posted bail for the mailman!

[LIHoosier]

5 hours ago, LIHoosier said:

With Penn winning and unless Dayton pulls off a comeback, here's my first foray into bracketeering. My goal is to do better than Bowl Cut and going by recent years in the Bracket Matrix, that should be an easy task. If Wichita beats S Florida, they go in that 12 spot since they're not changing it that late.

First try I got 67 right (I had Oklahoma instead of Mizzou), 37 exact and 24 within a seed for 336 pts. Not as good as the experts I trust but probably better than Bowl Cut which is my only goal for my debut.

[Ryno6284]

58 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Yea but they had unfair advantages 

They do...they aren't at IU!!!!!

[Ryno6284]

9 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

You can hate watch at home on the "main" TV!

At least no IU at Dayton this year to screw up the experience!

[Uspshoosier]

3 minutes ago, LIHoosier said:

First try I got 67 right (I had Oklahoma instead of Mizzou), 37 exact and 24 within a seed for 336 pts. Not as good as the experts I trust but probably better than Bowl Cut which is my only goal for my debut.

Awesome job.   @RaceToTheTopusually lets me know how mine did against the experts 

[Uspshoosier]

Just now, Ryno6284 said:

At least no IU at Dayton this year to screw up the experience!

I would have sucked it up so we could have watched IU in the tourney.   

[Uspshoosier]

 

[RaceToTheTop]

7 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Awesome job.   @RaceToTheTopusually lets me know how mine did against the experts 

Will do after the BracketMatrix posts the results of other brackets.

[Crimson and Cream]

16 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

 

Hell yeah!  Tom Crean style!  I would've posted bail for the mailman!

No need, that's what the union is for ;)

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

FWIW

[Golfman25]

1 hour ago, LIHoosier said:

Illinois, you didn't get away from Fran haha

Say what you will about The Franimal, but he's in the tournament.  :)  

[RaceToTheTop]

37 minutes ago, LIHoosier said:

First try I got 67 right (I had Oklahoma instead of Mizzou), 37 exact and 24 within a seed for 336 pts. Not as good as the experts I trust but probably better than Bowl Cut which is my only goal for my debut.

I didn't do one this year, but the first year I did it I had a score of 318....too much of me putting teams's where I thought they belonged and not enough of trying to imagine what the committee was going to view as valuable.

[RaceToTheTop]

31 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

 

I didn't do a bracket, but I would have had Oklahoma in and SMU out.  I also would have had Oklahoma in before Texas.

[LIHoosier]

7 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

I didn't do one this year, but the first year I did it I had a score of 318....too much of me putting teams's where I thought they belonged and not enough of trying to imagine what the committee was going to view as valuable.

I largely used my own ranking system I've been trying out and a few teams either way were quite a bit off. I also fudged up too many auto bids by a seed; missing what for the seasoned vets are gimme exacts.

[IU Prof]

So if IU was 4th out, what do you think it would have taken in hindsight to get in? Beat NW x2?

[Uspshoosier]

1 minute ago, IU Prof said:

So if IU was 4th out, what do you think it would have taken in hindsight to get in? Beat NW x2?

Beat NW once and they are probably in 

[RaceToTheTop]

1 minute ago, Uspshoosier said:

Beat NW once and they are probably in 

The one that gets to me is the 16 point second half lead that IU blew to Nebrasks.  That's a Q1 win we left out to dry.

[Uspshoosier]

3 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

The one that gets to me is the 16 point second half lead that IU blew to Nebrasks.  That's a Q1 win we left out to dry.

Win that one and they definitely are in with another top of the bracket win 

[IUHoosier5]

4 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

The one that gets to me is the 16 point second half lead that IU blew to Nebrasks.  That's a Q1 win we left out to dry.

Or the 12-point blown lead to Kentucky. There were way too many blown double-digit leads this year…