# SDMB Basketball Tournament Pool
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [March 16, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974 "2011-03-16T22:59:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/1 "2011-03-16T22:59:34Z")
It doesn’t look like anyone else has started a basketball tournament pool yet, so here we go.
I’ve created a group in the Yahoo! Tourney Pick’em. _You will need a Yahoo ID in order to participate._
Link: [Yahoo Fantasy Men's Tourney Pick'em](http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1)
Click the “Join A Group” button. Enter group ID 188520, password is cecil123.
Brackets must be entered by Thursday!
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### Author:  [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/2 "2011-03-16T23:51:10Z")
I’m in! C’mon people, we need some more folks! There’s a coffee mug at stake here!
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### Author:  [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/3 "2011-03-17T00:20:54Z")
Yeah!
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/4 "2011-03-17T02:10:41Z")
Been wondering when this would show up.
But let me warn you all – I’m not making my bracket this year. Instead, I used Excel and [random.org](http://random.org) to create a perfectly weighted, randomized bracket. There is simply no way it can fail.
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/5 "2011-03-17T02:26:37Z")
I’m in
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/6 "2011-03-17T08:05:40Z")
I’m in. Same bracket name as my name here.
Joe
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### Author:  [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/7 "2011-03-17T09:29:45Z")
Just joined. Uh, not expecting much, let’s just put it that way.
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### Author:  [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/8 "2011-03-17T11:51:11Z")
I joined as well. I haven’t followed any college basketball this year, so I’m going off past reputation and rankings.
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### Author:  [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/9 "2011-03-17T13:26:40Z")
I’m in!
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/10 "2011-03-17T13:33:11Z")
There’s still time to enter a bracket - or make last minute changes if you’re having second thoughts about any of your picks. Brackets are locked in at 11:15 CDT today.
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### Author:  [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/11 "2011-03-17T14:41:05Z")
I’m in. Go Spiders!
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/12 "2011-03-17T14:45:13Z")
I’s be in but I really don’t want to create a yahoo account.
Historically, my picks have been spectacular in their badness, so maybe it’s just as well.
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### Author:  [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/13 "2011-03-17T14:57:51Z")
I’m in. NFM Dope Bracket
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### Author:  [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/14 "2011-03-17T18:09:15Z")
I forgot to put OSU in as national champ. Crap.
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### Author:  [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/15 "2011-03-17T18:38:14Z")
> [@gonzomax](#):
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> I forgot to put OSU in as national champ. Crap.
Doesn’t matter. The Nat’l Champion will be determine in the semifinal. Duke/UNC. Most likely Duke.
[soapbox]
IIRC, many here at the SDMB (and elsewhere) was dissing the ACC last year at this time. All the ACC ever seems to do is win the NCAA Championship more often than any other conference
[/soapbox]
😃
DUKE!
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### Author:  [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/16 "2011-03-17T18:51:58Z")
Butler beat Old Domino.
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### Author:  [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/17 "2011-03-17T19:39:13Z")
> [@gonzomax](#):
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> Butler beat Old Domino.
There goes my bracket, right into the crapper right off the bat!
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/18 "2011-03-17T19:53:28Z")
Awww yeah…got Butler, got Vest Virginia – two for two, outta the gate. Told ya – The Excel Bracket is _unstoppable_!
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/19 "2011-03-17T20:00:01Z")
…stupid Louisville.
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### Author:  [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/20 "2011-03-17T20:01:38Z")
Sucks for my bracket, but good no call.
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