# The SDMB "My NCAA Bracket's Already Shot to Hell" Club **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 18, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168 "2005-03-18T18:13:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tsarina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/21 "2005-03-19T15:10:12Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > If it makes you feel any better, I have GW in the Elite Eight… Bwa ha ha! You doofus. 😛 I’m doing OK myself; I filled out two brackets and on one I’m 26/32 and on the other I’m 23/32. I take heart in the fact that no one on earth (or more importantly, no one I work with) picked Bucknell or UW-Milwaukee. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/22 "2005-03-19T19:29:18Z")
**GO CATS!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/23 "2005-03-19T19:56:56Z")
Well, that’s one final four team done for me. Which means for me to win my money pool, I need Duke to win tourney. I hate Bobby Knight. And the Zags horrible FT shooting as well. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/24 "2005-03-20T00:26:53Z")
I think the Selection Committee could have done a better job of seeding by drawing names randomly out of a hat. This is the most upside-down tourney I’ve ever seen. The fact that only one region held seeding while the other three featured upsets of the 3, 4, 5 and 6 seeds makes me wonder if this is the first sign of parity in DI or if the Selection Committee assigned seeds based on reputation rather than performance. ---
**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/25 "2005-03-20T02:55:06Z")
I’m an Illinois alumni! Go Illini! Hurrah! I haven’t been so happy about college basketball in ages. My team is kicking everyone’s ass. Yeah, I know, Indian mascot and all. It’s reprehensible. But at least we’re kicking YOUR butt. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/26 "2005-03-20T03:44:50Z")
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. My brackets took a hard hit in the 32. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/27 "2005-03-20T04:13:25Z")
BC and WF were both up 11 - 0 early in their games today, and both ended up losing to very low seeds. I want my two dollars back. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/28 "2005-03-20T05:04:44Z")
Ditto. Exactly my thoughts. I haven’t seen the scores of any other games today besides Utah beating OK (which was also a wrong pick for me) and now I’m horrified to look. Tourney gods, why do you hate me so? ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/29 "2005-03-20T05:17:50Z")
As bad as the day began for me, I still end it in first in the SDMB pool. This isn’t a sprint. I keep forgetting that sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/30 "2005-03-20T05:27:18Z")
Fresh from Worcester I come, still clad in orange. A part of me feels good for Brennan and VT. A part of me knows that that was a magical (though poorly officiated) game that I will never see the like of for some time. And a part of me can still feel the vibrations of an entire stadium chanting “U-V-M!” But a larger part of me clutches a broken bracket and broken dreams and wishes to rattle off a stream of cusses that would boot this thread straight to the Pit. You syrup suckers had better beat MSU or else I’ll really get pissed. Good game. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/31 "2005-03-20T05:35:58Z")
Let’s see…I had Wake Forest taking out Gonzaga in the Sweet 16, then getting past Washington to the Final Four. I also had Oklahoma in the Final Four. In fact, five of the teams I have in the Sweet 16–Gonzaga, Wake, UAB, Alabama, and Oklahoma–are already on the bus home, and they’ve only played half the games so far. That sound you hear is me taking it straight up the ass. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/32 "2005-03-20T06:44:43Z")
> [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](#): > > I’m an Illinois alumni! That’s alumnus, assuming you are A) male and B) not multiple male individuals:) And for the record, I have Illinois running the table and beating Duke, 83-77. I also have nine of my sweet 16, six of my elite eight, three of my final four and both potential champions still alive. As long as low seeds don’t get all uppity for the rest of the tournament, I should be okay. Bucknell, I’m looking at you. Vermont, I have you losing to Duke. Don’t disappoint me. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/33 "2005-03-20T06:57:29Z")
As a somewhat gloating update I am still in the top 1% on ESPN and I have lost two of my final sixteen. Go Vermont, I have you winning tomorrow. Kansas I am deeply dissapointed in you. Rock shock Jayhawk indeed. Give me an Arizona win and I should at least make the leaderboard. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/34 "2005-03-20T11:38:56Z")
scoot on over. I’m good as dead now. Freakin’ Wake Forest! Why do I put my faith in them every year! Never again!! Go UWMilwaukee! ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/35 "2005-03-20T15:36:45Z")
The horror! The horror! I don’t even want to discuss the carnage that is my bracket. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/36 "2005-03-20T23:12:53Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > **GO CATS!!!** Uh… Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/37 "2005-03-20T23:27:13Z")
My Final Four–Illinois, Wake Forest, Connecticut, Oklahoma. As Meat Loaf didn’t quite say, one out of four ain’t bad. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/38 "2005-03-20T23:27:58Z")
Just got home from Worcester… as amazing as Friday was, damn, did today suck. The Hodge shot to win was an amazing play, but why did it have to be against UConn ☹ In person, the advantage in athleticism that MSU had over Vermont was far too apparent. Sorrentine made some crazy shots but with Coppenrath looking half dead (He couldn’t have finished better than five for 20 or 25?, and he looked exhausted the whole game), UVM just didn’t it in them. Kind of sad too, as MSU wasn’t really THAT dominating even though they were so much faster. I am pretty much out in my SDMB bracket… lost 3 of my final four and both of my last two. My money bracket, I’m still alive in, but only barely - go Arizona, oddly enough. -K. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/39 "2005-03-21T00:32:43Z")
So who else had NC State beating UConn? The Albuquerque portion of my bracket is completely busted (it looks like The Land of Faded Ink), but I still have six of eight Elite teams and three of four Final teams, including both championship game potentials. I went from 26th percentile to 52nd percentile and could still finish with 1240 points. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168/40 "2005-03-21T14:39:50Z")
WVU and NC State - may you burn in NCAA hell next year for your sins of this past weekend. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-my-ncaa-brackets-already-shot-to-hell-club/295168.md?page=3)