# Tourney Bracket Challenge
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [March 14, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460 "2009-03-14T23:18:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/1 "2009-03-14T23:18:18Z")
I didn’t see one yet so…
I have started a NCAA tournament bracket challenge on Yahoo.
Group ID #74798
Password: UncleCecil
Good luck.
GO MIZZOU!!!
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### Author:  [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/2 "2009-03-14T23:40:53Z")
Given the greatness I’m seeing in the Pac 10 tournament, I will join you.
Arizona State is likely to win the Pac 10 tournament, so I’ll give them a very high seed.
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### Author:  [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2009, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/3 "2009-03-15T07:10:52Z")
Here is a [link](http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1/register/joinprivategroup).
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### Author:  [@El\_Perro\_Fumando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Perro_Fumando)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/4 "2009-03-15T14:36:47Z")
I’m in. Let’s just see if the Terps can make it into the tourney after they broke my heart yesterday. …
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/5 "2009-03-15T15:06:32Z")
I keep getting an “invalid password” error when I try to join.
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### Author:  [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/6 "2009-03-15T16:02:00Z")
I don’t know if it matters, but I forgot to capitalize.
The password is: unclececil
Sorry if this is the problem.
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### Author:  [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/7 "2009-03-15T16:44:03Z")
I’m in.
My favorite time of year.
I’m also hoping Maryland makes it - mainly because I want to hear the name Greivis Vasquez again before he ends up on an NBA bench.
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### Author:  [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/8 "2009-03-15T17:03:15Z")
I’ve never tried this before. Let’s give it a shot.
Go KU! And Temple, I guess! And all my Big Ten schools! And the other three or four other schools to whom I might have remote allegiances! And whoever ends up winning!
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### Author:  [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/9 "2009-03-15T17:19:08Z")
I’m in, and ready to beat my wife!\*
\*(My wife being **El Perro Fumando** , and said beating only being in this pool. Honest.)
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### Author:  [@El\_Perro\_Fumando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Perro_Fumando)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/10 "2009-03-15T18:50:51Z")
> [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](#):
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> I’m in, and ready to beat my wife!\*
>
> \*(My wife being **El Perro Fumando** , and said beating only being in this pool. Honest.)
Keep dreaming, hon.
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### Author:  [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/11 "2009-03-15T19:50:41Z")
I’m in.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/12 "2009-03-15T22:25:25Z")
> [@RetroVertigo](#):
>
> I don’t know if it matters, but I forgot to capitalize.
>
> The password is: unclececil
>
> Sorry if this is the problem.
Yep, that was it. I’m in now.
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### Author:  [@MTRG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTRG)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/13 "2009-03-15T23:15:19Z")
thanks for starting this!
should be fun.
Hail to Pitt!
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/14 "2009-03-15T23:59:12Z")
Normally I don’t care about college sports (football Saturdays are an excellent time to go grocery shopping), but one of my classmates plays for the Michigan basketball team, so I am really excited for his sake that they’re in the tournament.
Yay, Michigan! Go us!
Firefox says “yay” isn’t a word. Fuck you, Firefox, yes it is.
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/15 "2009-03-16T00:40:01Z")
Every year, I fill out a “sensible” bracket, and an “upset special.” This year, there are a LOT of upsets even in my “sensible” bracket. In the first round, I have 9 upsets picked. And my Elite 8 is ridiculously Big East / ACC heavy - 7 of 8 as a matter of fact…
My upset special has Villanova over Wake forest in the championship. That’s reasonable, even in a serious bracket.
Joe
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### Author:  [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/16 "2009-03-16T02:51:13Z")
I went out on a limb. All top seeds this time!
Since I’m thinking my Jayhawks won’t repeat, what the heck?
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### Author:  [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/17 "2009-03-16T02:57:15Z")
> [@HubZilla](#):
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> I went out on a limb. All top seeds this time!
>
> Since I’m thinking my Jayhawks won’t repeat, what the heck?
On second though, Kansas will repeat! Rock Chalk Jayhawk! 😃
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### Author:  [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/18 "2009-03-16T16:19:19Z")
I’m in. My Final Four has 2 #1s, a #2, and a #8. Lot’s of early round upsets as well.
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### Author:  [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/19 "2009-03-16T23:05:17Z")
I’m just finishing up my bracket now and I REALLY wish I knew how Ty Lawson was doing.
I’ve got kind of a boring bracket with no real cinderellas. I do have VCU winning two games and Florida State dropping Pittsburgh (I have a feeling I’m gonna get effed up in this bracket).
Thursday can’t win soon enough. I’ve got a few meetings Thursday but I think I can catch most of the games. _Rubs hands together_
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourney-bracket-challenge/489460/20 "2009-03-16T23:10:25Z")
> [@drm](#):
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> I’m just finishing up my bracket now and I REALLY wish I knew how Ty Lawson was doing.
[He says he’s doing fine.](http://northcarolina.scout.com/2/847272.html)
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