# 2023 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Pool
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090
**Category:** The Game Room
**Tags:** basketball-nba
**Created:** [March 13, 2023, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090 "2023-03-13T02:57:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2023, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/1 "2023-03-13T02:57:01Z")
Time once again for the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament pool. Enter your brackets at [ESPN.com](http://ESPN.com) or download the tournament app.
> **[NCAA Tournament Bracket Challenge 2023 | ESPN](https://fantasy.espn.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2023/en/)**
>
> ESPN's Tournament Challenge is back for the 2023 NCAA College Basketball Tournament! Fill out your bracket and compete against friends, ESPN personalities and celebrities.
As always, our group name is **SDMB Bracketeers** and the password is **cecil123**. Limit of 3 brackets per player.
I suppose this can also be a general tournament discussion thread, although it’s fine with me if someone wants to start a separate thread for that.
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2023, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/2 "2023-03-13T05:31:21Z")
Cool. Thanks, @Shoeless. I’ve entered.
It’s fun to see my UCSB Gauchos (Santa Barbara) in it, but I don’t think they’re going to go very far.
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### Author:  [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2023, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/3 "2023-03-14T13:09:52Z")
I’ll fill out my bracket tonight or tomorrow. I’ve been pretty busy, so I don’t think I’ll have time to perform a dice simulation of the tournament like I did the last couple years. The dice never seemed to be very accurate anyway.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2023, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/4 "2023-03-14T13:37:33Z")
I notice there is a Grand Canyon University playing Gonzaga in the first round. I assume that’s the same GCU I see TV ads for all the time? I had no idea they were a real school (much less had a basketball team) I thought they were just one of those online diploma mills.
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### Author:  [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/5 "2023-03-14T18:08:29Z")
I assume they are the same. Don’t most “online diploma mills” have at least some form of physical presence? My office literally shares a wall with what used to be a University of Phoenix “campus” location (and no, it’s not one of those places consisting solely of post office boxes that they call “suites”).
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### Author:  [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2023, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/6 "2023-03-15T02:20:25Z")
GCU is, in fact, the only for-profit school to participate in Division I athletics.
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### Author:  [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/7 "2023-03-15T12:09:33Z")
Joined. I think I want to add one more bracket before everything gets started.
Thanks @Shoeless!
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### Author:  [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/8 "2023-03-15T12:13:32Z")
My only prediction is that, as usual, anything can and probably will happen!
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2023, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/9 "2023-03-15T13:44:19Z")
Lots of upsets! Just not the ones I picked.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2023, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/10 "2023-03-16T13:08:47Z")
Last call! Tournament starts for reals today, so get your brackets in while there’s still time.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/11 "2023-03-16T18:54:54Z")
Not in the SDMB pool, but I suspect Furman just ruined a lot of people’s brackets.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/12 "2023-03-16T19:12:54Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> Not in the SDMB pool, but I suspect Furman just ruined a lot of people’s brackets
As Kramer famously said five minutes into _The Contest_, “Well, I’m out!”
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/13 "2023-03-16T20:56:58Z")
That Furman finish — wow!
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/14 "2023-03-16T21:47:16Z")
Yeah, i thought it was in the bag for Virginia, but that sloppy pass… 😑
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2023, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/15 "2023-03-17T02:49:44Z")
The poor kid. And he’s a good player too. And he had an open teammate in the backcourt about 25 feet away, too.
This will haunt him for some time.
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2023, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/16 "2023-03-17T02:50:28Z")
Oh and I watched the Princeton upset too. That was fun.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/17 "2023-03-17T15:42:19Z")
So who’s the most likely upset winner today, VCU over St. Mary’s, Pitt over ISU or Providence over Kentucky?
Or all three?
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### Author:  [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/18 "2023-03-17T16:07:19Z")
Why oh why do I keep picking Arizona to go deep?! 🥺
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### Author:  [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2023, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/19 "2023-03-17T18:40:37Z")
How about Kent State over Indiana?
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2023, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament-pool/981090/20 "2023-03-18T23:52:23Z")
And Kansas goes down… 🤬
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