CUF March Madness Bracket Challenge 2011

[Flystripper]

I think you guys need to pick more upsets...definitely not enough.

[Green Monstah]

Pot Size (based on # of paids): $550

Sweet. This is a much larger pot than I expected.

[beefytee]

My upsets:

Clemson over wv
Marq over Xavier
Penn st over temple
Florida st over Texas am
Odu over butler
Utah st over k st.
Zags over johnnies
Michigan st over ucla

[Color Me Badd Fan]

I'm surprised about y'all picking Market over the inventor of the Cabbage Patch Doll. I'm not going to provide my reasoning, it's just more points for me in my bracket.

I'm not picking a ton of upsets. I have Richmond over Vandy and Belmont over Wisconsin and Missouri over Cincy. I'm getting extremely tempted to pick the Zags over St. Johns. Spokane is a relative hop, skip and a jump to Denver and Spokane's elevation is around 2000 feet. I think they'll fare better in Denver than a team from NYC. But St. Johns has beaten so many good teams, I'm divided.

BYU's region is wacky --

Pitt historically is not a good tourney team.
Florida is ridiculously overseeded
BYU is depleted w/out Davies
Wisconsin, they're from the Big 10 and they don't play well away from home
St. Johns is depleted like BYU
Michigan State was a bubble team this year
Don't believe in the Zags this year

Which leaves me with K-State and UCLA in the elite 8. I picked K-State because of its elite wins, but I can just as well see UCLA. Both are well coached teams that play great defense, but I'm going with K-State because of Pullen.

...but Jacob Pullen is sick and they're playing a very good Utah State team. Yikes, time to hedge and go with UCLA (which is going up against the best coach in college basketball in the first round). I can't make heads or tails out of this region.

[Flystripper]

I'm surprised about y'all picking Market over the inventor of the Cabbage Patch Doll. I'm not going to provide my reasoning, it's just more points for me in my bracket.

I'm not picking a ton of upsets. I have Richmond over Vandy and Belmont over Wisconsin and Missouri over Cincy. I'm getting extremely tempted to pick the Zags over St. Johns. Spokane is a relative hop, skip and a jump to Denver and Spokane's elevation is around 2000 feet. I think they'll fare better in Denver than a team from NYC. But St. Johns has beaten so many good teams, I'm divided.

BYU's region is wacky --

Pitt historically is not a good tourney team.
Florida is ridiculously overseeded
BYU is depleted w/out Davies
Wisconsin, they're from the Big 10 and they don't play well away from home
St. Johns is depleted like BYU
Michigan State was a bubble team this year
Don't believe in the Zags this year

Which leaves me with K-State and UCLA in the elite 8. I picked K-State because of its elite wins, but I can just as well see UCLA. Both are well coached teams that play great defense, but I'm going with K-State because of Pullen.

...but Jacob Pullen is sick and they're playing a very good Utah State team. Yikes, time to hedge and go with UCLA (which is going up against the best coach in college basketball in the first round). I can't make heads or tails out of this region.

The Southeast Region is wide open. Nothing short of a 14-16 seed advancing would surprise me.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Too late to help my bracket but some numbers I heard on the eliptical this morning listening to Bilas and co. Since 1979 the tourney averages 8.3 wins by lower seeds.

I don't think I picked enough upsets.

[scottie]

Does anyone here know TheBYUGuy outside of CUF, like on Facebook or otherwise? His last CUF login was on 1/19, and I think he only signed up because Yahoo sent out an email invite to everyone who was in the money bracket last year and he was one of those. I just doubt that he knows it's $10, but I'd like to hear from him before I delete his bracket from our group.

Also, it appears that the jackpot is going to be $640 ($650 if TheBYUGuy comes through); wow. I think in 2009 when Lebowski won it was about $80, and last year for DrumNFeather it was about $150 I think.

[I.J. Reilly]

Also, it appears that the jackpot is going to be $640 ($650 if TheBYUGuy comes through); wow. I think in 2009 when Lebowski won it was about $80, and last year for DrumNFeather it was about $150 I think.

Better economic times.

[DrumNFeather]

Better economic times.

I guess I picked the wrong year to be right.

[scottie]

Props to CJF and DU Ute for picking Morehead St.

[Coach McGuirk]

Nice start to this thing. And the iPad app is streaming flawlessly!

[DrumNFeather]

Welcome to the win column, DNF.

[I.J. Reilly]

I am enjoying my 0-3 0-4 record so far. I wouldn't mind losing every game as long as BYU wins. Should they lose tonight, my excitement for the tourney will probably cool. As is, in an hour I'm outta here and headed home. Nothing more to be accomplished today.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Also, it appears that the jackpot is going to be $640 ($650 if TheBYUGuy comes through); wow. I think in 2009 when Lebowski won it was about $80, and last year for DrumNFeather it was about $150 I think.

Yeah. What the hell?

[pellegrino]

Yeah. What the hell?

see, the economy is picking up!