# SDMB Basketball Tournament Pool **URL:** \ **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:** 2
**Author:** ![Jules\_Andre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jules_andre/32/9334_2.png) [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/21 "2011-03-17T20:02:43Z")
Well at least I had Morehead St… ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/22 "2011-03-17T20:03:06Z")
Excellent no call. I didn’t enter with y’all cause I didn’t see it in time. But I’m 3 for 3 right now. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/23 "2011-03-18T00:45:48Z")
Afternoon session is over. divemaster is leading with 7 correct picks 7 people are tied with me in 2nd place with 6 correct picks Someone is pulling up the rear (I think a **Maize** and \*\* Blue\*\* fan) ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/24 "2011-03-18T00:51:57Z")
Ooops, just looked at the expanded standings, there are 18 players in the pool. There are a lot players tied for last. ---
**Author:** ![Jules\_Andre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jules_andre/32/9334_2.png) [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/25 "2011-03-18T08:42:05Z")
Utah St. has burned me three years in a row. You’d think I’d learn. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/26 "2011-03-18T08:52:22Z")
Doing well so far, but one of my last minute switches was to have Michigan State go to the Sweet 16 instead of only winning one game. Gah. Should have stuck with Florida. (Unless they lose to UCLA, in which case I’d be in the same position) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/27 "2011-03-18T12:18:36Z")
I must have screwed something up. Somehow I ended up joining the group, but the bracket I created ended up under ‘Unassigned brackets’. Is there a way for me to move the unassigned bracket over to the SDMB group? I was 14/16 yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/28 "2011-03-18T12:19:08Z")
Y’know, I was going to go with tradition and pick Missouri to lose right off the bat, but I figured they were good enough this year to win at least one. Guess not. Here’s hoping day 2 goes a little better for me than day 1. Says the guy holding down the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/29 "2011-03-18T14:17:07Z")
I have never, not ever, since first filling in a bracket 20 years ago, had a worse first day. 10/16 picks, lost a final four and an elite 8 team. Ugh. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/30 "2011-03-18T18:19:24Z")
Hey, _I’m_ the guy holding down the bottom!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/31 "2011-03-18T22:45:34Z")
> [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > Hey, _I’m_ the guy holding down the bottom!🙂 Heh. I keep forgetting to click on the “View Complete Standings” link. Oh well, close enough to the bottom anyway. Usually I get 15 of 16 or all 16 on the first day, then about half on the second day, and it’s all downhill from there. Looks like I just started going downhill a little earlier this year. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/32 "2011-03-19T05:16:30Z")
Woo! First page! Heh. Well, I’ve only lost one Sweet 16 team, so I’m poised to either rocket up the standings or fall to the bottom real quick… I’m an ugly 3,465,776th place on [ESPN.com](http://ESPN.com). Also, no perfect brackets at either Yahoo or ESPN. That’s pretty unusual for ESPN at least. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/33 "2011-03-19T06:43:31Z")
Obama hit 29 games. He is 492 on the ESPN standings. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/34 "2011-03-19T06:47:42Z")
I am being hosed. It says I did not pick the national winning team. I gave the score of the game, Ohio State over Kansas. How is that not picking the winning team? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/35 "2011-03-19T07:37:55Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > I am being hosed. It says I did not pick the national winning team. I gave the score of the game, Ohio State over Kansas. How is that not picking the winning team? [Ask this guy.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13583160&postcount=14) ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/36 "2011-03-19T17:13:09Z")
I did not put it in the box. I gave the damn score. That is picking Ohio State. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/37 "2011-03-19T17:17:56Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > I did not put it in the box. I gave the damn score. That is picking Ohio State. Maybe in your Tourney Pick’em it is. Apparently not in theirs. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/38 "2011-03-20T01:27:31Z")
Well, I made it three whole days into the thing before I fell over dead this year :smack: ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/39 "2011-03-20T02:06:10Z")
The Butler did it. Knocked off number 1 Pitt. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974/40 "2011-03-20T04:14:36Z")
Good luck to the rest of you. Butler slayed my bracket. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-basketball-tournament-pool/574974.md?page=3)