Thursday's NCAA Tournament Thread

Here's today's schedule of games:

1:40 PM(13) Morehead State vs. (4) Louisville*TBS
2:10 PM(10) Penn State vs. (7) Temple*TNT
3:05 PM(13) Princeton vs. (4) Kentucky*CBS
3:10 PM(16) North Carolina-Asheville vs. (1) Pittsburgh*truTV
4:10 PM(12) Richmond vs. (5) Vanderbilt*TBS
4:40 PM(15) Northern Colorado vs. (2) San Diego State*TNT
6:50 PM(15) UC Santa Barbara vs. (2) Florida*TBS
7:15 PM(14) Wofford vs. (3) Brigham Young*CBS
7:20 PM(14) Bucknell vs. (3) Connecticut*TNT
7:27 PM(13) Belmont vs. (4) Wisconsin*truTV
9:20 PM(10) Michigan State vs. (7) UCLA*TBS
9:45 PM(11) Gonzaga vs. (6) St. John's*CBS
9:50 PM(11) Missouri vs. (6) Cincinnati*TNT
9:57 PM(12) Utah State vs. (5) Kansas State*truTV

Three games are already finished: West Virginia beat Clemson, Butler beat Old Dominion, and Morehead State just finished an upset of Louisville.

I've missed most of the early games, but got home for the last few minutes of Morehead State's win--the first big upset of the day.

Anybody else watching? Who're you cheering for?

I know very unlikely but I was hoping for a perfect one. I had Louisville winning in all 5 of mine. :(

:(

Horrible ending to an overachieving season.


*sigh*

Yeah, that hurts--and no perfect bracket--but as long as you didn't have them playing Penn State (who just lost to Temple) in the final game, you can still do pretty well overall :)

I got Louisville losing to Kansas in the third round in every single bracket. I guess Vanderbilt's football success had something to do with my picks.

I thought that you'd meant you had Louisville winning it all :blush:

Losing a Sweet 16 team won't hurt you too bad, though :)

because they just almost killed one of my brackets. :(

dg

Kansas will probably be waiting for them in the 3rd round :)

and correctly predicted the Temple win over Penn. Oh, & the coins also picked Morehead State. :eyes: If Morehead goes & upends Kansas, I'm screwed.

dg

http://www.mercurynews.com/college-sports/ci_17629515

Who makes the Final Four?

Faraudo: No. 1 seeds Ohio State, Duke and Pitt, and Rick Pitino's overachieving Louisville team.

:rofl:

Whoops.

That's the tournament for ya, though--four hours old and already people are tearing up their brackets. That happened to me last year :rofl:

:D

half an hour before tip-off :)

Princeton actually had a five point lead, but Kentucky is now up by a point with about 9:30 left in the second half ...

Kentucky basketball ...

Come on Vandy, save my brackets. :bounce:

When are the second chance brackets? :)

:wow:

;)

:P

I'd forgotten that it had happened a few times in a row before last year, though.

regardless of whether or not its happened before.

I got Richmond on one bracket, but missed Morehead State completely. Fortunately, I don't have any of the losers going too far (Louisville to the sweet 16, but that's all).

I remember on year I picked 15 of the sweet 16, then came Neutron Thursday, in which my teams were demolished but the bracket remained standing. I lost something like 7 out of 8, salvaged a couple on the other side, but wound up with only three of the final eight teams, and only one projected to the final four. Let's go, uh, anybody! Nooo, not you.

I'm 3/8 so far. And my pick for Wofford to score an upset is looking grimmer by the second.

there are at least 50 with a perfect bracket so far but I'm looking at this one person's bracket. He/she didn't pick winners for the final 4. Meaning he/she didn't pick the teams for the final. It would be interesting if he/she got a perfect bracket all the way to final 4 but missed out on that million because he/she didn't pick teams for the title game.

I've got a soft spot for Utah State because they're coached by Stew Morrill, who used to coach at Colorado State (where I saw my first college basketball game).