My Dogs Pick an NCAA Bracket

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Tilly and Toby, the wondermutts, have decided they wanted to join in on the March Madness fun. So I decided to set up a bracket for them. With little else but a bracket and a bucket of treats, I’ve slowly been filling out a bracket with them.

Not wanting to make things absolutely impossible, I gave them the single handicap of giving the #1 seeds a first round automatic win - everything else is up to them to decide. So far, we’re through 3 of the 4 regions, which I’ll break down.

EAST
Round of 64
1/16: Ohio St. (automatic)
8/9: George Mason over Villanova
5/12: UAB/Clemson over West Virginia
4/13: Kentucky over Princeton
6/11: Xavier over Marquette
3/14: Indiana State over Syracuse
7/10: Washington over Georgia (they were unhappy about picking the Bulldogs to lose, but were relieved to hear that they picked the Huskies to win)
2/15: Long Island over North Carolina

Round of 32
1/8: Ohio St. over George Mason
4/12: Kentucky over UAB/Clemson
6/14: Xavier over Indiana State
7/15: Long Island over Washington

Sweet Sixteen
1/4: Ohio St. over Kentucky
6/15: Long Island over Xavier

Elite Eight
1/15: Ohio St. over Long Island

WEST
Round of 64
1/16: Duke over Hampton (automatic win)
8/9: Michigan over Tennessee
5/12: Arizona over Memphis
4/13: Oakland over Texas
6/11: Cincinnati over Missouri
3/14: Bucknell over UConn
7/10: Temple over Penn State
2/15: SDSU over Northern Colorado

Round of 32
1/8: Duke over Michigan
5/13: Oakland over Arizona
6/14: Bucknell over Cincinnati
2/7: Temple over SDSU

Sweet Sixteen
1/13: Oakland over Duke
7/14: Bucknell over Temple

Elite Eight
13/14: Bucknell over Oakland!

SOUTHWEST
Round of 64
1/16: KU over Boston U.
8/9: UNLV over Illinois
5/12: Richmond over Vanderbilt
4/13: Louisville over Morehead St.
6/11: USC/VCU over Georgetown
3/14: Purdue over St. Peter’s
7/10: Florida St. over Texas A&M
2/15: Akron over Notre Dame (Toby just about got disowned on that one)

Round of 32
1/8: UNLV over KU
4/12: Richmond over Louisville
3/11: Purdue over USC/VCU
10/15: Akron over Florida St.

Sweet Sixteen
8/12: UNLV over Richmond
3/15: Akron over Purdue

Elite Eight
8/15: Akron over UNLV

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The Southeast will have to wait until tomorrow - I don’t want to load them up too much on treats. (Last night’s gas was pretty potent.)

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Eh, I’ve made worse-looking brackets. WTG Tilly and Toby!

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Hopefully we’ll see you on Letterman with your amazingly famous dogs!

:smiley:

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So how do they make their choices? and what happens if Tilly and Toby disagree? Alpha-dog has 51% of the vote?

edit: Toby looks like he might be a good handicappers if you were racing beetles!

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Your Toby reminds me of my Rusty: http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp360/sgenetti77/Rusty005.jpg
who sometimes winks: http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp360/sgenetti77/Rusty008.jpg but never picks basketball brackets!

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What have they got against cats? As a Villanova alum, I must protest this one.

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I alternate between dogs, giving one of them the option of two treats. Left hand is Team A, right hand is Team B. I of course tell them which specific team they’re picking though.

There were a few instances where Tilly felt extremely strongly about a pick Toby was supposed to make, and made the decision for him.

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So Tilly is Alpha Dog?

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If you want to enter Tilly and Toby in the Yahoo $1M perfect pick prize, I can give you a league number and password…

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Oh yeah. Toby has probably 15 lbs on her, but he’s a big softy who doesn’t know how to wrestle. He leads with his butt. Tilly’s a friggin’ tactical jetfighter fueled by tiger blood.

Already there. I started up a bracket tourney with my friends, and put that in there to shame them.

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Tilly and Toby need to get the last bracket in soonest… Hopefully, Munch can find some low-gas treats for them. :smiley:

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SOUTHWEST
Round of 64
1/16: Pitt over UNCA
8/9: Butler over Old Dominion (go Bulldogs!)
5/12: K-State over Utah St.
4/13: Bellmont over Wisconsin (Toby really tends to vote for chalk, but this one gave him some serious paws…)
6/11: St. John’s over Gonzaga
3/14: BYU over Wofford (two anti-canine picks in a row…)
7/10: Michigan St. over UCLA
2/15: UCSB over Florida (go Gauchos!)

Round of 32
1/8: Butler over Pitt
5/13: K-State over Bellmont
3/6: BYU over St. John’s
10/15: Michigan St. over UCSB

Sweet Sixteen
5/8: K-State over Butler
3/10: BYU over Michigan St.

Elite Eight
8/15: BYU over K-State

FINAL FOUR
Bucknell over Ohio St.
BYU over Akron

2011 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
BYU over Bucknell

I guess they were more focused on the horn-dog aspect of BYU than the Cougar mascot…

Any ideas on how to come up with a tiebreaker score? Or can I safely assume I’m the only one with a final four of Bucknell, Ohio St. BYU and Akron?

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… er… :o

No, you can probably safely assume that. :wink:

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Man, I was really hoping they would choose the Buckeyes. I like the Buckeyes. FWIW, I picked The Richmond Spiders to go to the Sweet 16 as well in one of my brackets (Hometown favorites), so we could be laughing (and barking) over some tasty buckeyes.

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ooops wrong thread. nevermind

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How did the first round treat the wondermutts?

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Well, BYU and Ohio State are still alive - so that’s good. Of the Sweet 16, they have 6 of them. Not great. In my pool, they’re 2nd to last in points. But in potential points, there are 15 teams below them (out of 34) - there’s a bunch of Notre Dame and Purdue fans in the group.

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They did a great job in the Southeast region. Go Butler!

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Unfortunately, so did a bunch of other people in my pool. Living in Indy doesn’t make a Butler pick very sexy…