Sweet 16 Starts Tonight - Schedule & My Updated Bracket

The Sweet 16 starts in 2 and a half hours so now's the perfect time to leave work and start drinking. Right now I'm in the 68th percentile in Yahoo brackets with 33 of 48 correct picks for 41 points and my bracket looks like a Christmas tree. Not terrible but I could have done better. One of my biggest regrets was picking Belmont over Wisconsin. I should have gone with the safe pick and took Wisconsin into the Sweet 16. I still have 3 of my Final 4 teams alive and both Finals teams. Ohio State has looked dominant and Kansas has looked like the 2nd best team so I still think that will be the championship match-up.

There are only 4 games tonight but they should all be really good. Here's the TV schedule:

3 Connecticut vs. 2 San Diego St., 7:15 p.m., CBS

3 BYU vs. 2 Florida, 7:27 p.m., TBS

5 Arizona vs. 1 Duke, 9:45 p.m., CBS

8 Butler vs. 4 Wisconsin, 9:57 p.m., TBS

I'm doing the Yahoo Second Chance Tournament and tonight I picked San Diego St., BYU, Duke and Wisconsin. If I was betting on the spread I'd pick San Diego St. (-1), BYU (+3), Arizona (+9) and Butler (+4.5).

Sunday's March Madness TV Schedule & My Updated Bracket

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Yesterday I picked 5 of the 6 games where I had teams and so far today I'm 2 for 3 (picked Washington for the upset and they should have won - yes, I'm bitter). My only loss of teams I had left in the sweet 16 yesterday was Pittsburgh and they deserved to lose after that idiotic foul. I should have known not to pick them because they choke EVERY SINGLE YEAR. I thought this year would be different because their region was by far the easiest of the 4 but they set out to prove me wrong. They still have never made a Final Four. Penn State on the other hand? They have made 1. PSU > Pitt.

7 Washington vs. 2 North Carolina, 12:15 p.m., CBS

8 Michigan vs. 1 Duke, 2:40 p.m., CBS

8 George Mason vs. 1 Ohio State, 5:15 p.m., CBS

5 Arizona vs. 4 Texas, 6:15 p.m., TNT

11 VCU vs. 3 Purdue, 7:10 p.m., TBS

11 Marquette vs. 3 Syracuse, 7:45 p.m., trutv

9 Illinois vs. 1 Kansas, 8:40 p.m., TNT

10 Florida State vs. 2 Notre Dame, 9:40 p.m., TBS

Saturday's March Madness TV Schedule & My Updated Bracket

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After a slow start on Thursday (10 for 16), I was nearly perfect yesterday going 15 for 16 and only missed the VCU/Georgetown upset. And let's be honest, VCU sucks. If I could go back in time and I knew VCU was going to win I would still pick Georgetown. I'm no math major but I think 10/16 and 15/16 makes me 25/32 which is good for 93rd percentile in Yahoo. The last time I saw 93% on something was on a Sporcle test about The O.C. Saturday of the tournament is when I start to get depressed because we go from 16 games each of the past two days to 8 today, 8 tomorrow and then only 15 left total after that.

There were only 7 upsets in the first round and 5 of them were in the Southwest region. I told you chalk wins and we you wanted to win which means you used my bracket so you're welcome. Here's the TV schedule to all of today's games.

5 West Virginia vs. 5 Kentucky, 12:15 p.m., CBS

7 UCLA vs. 2 Florida, 2:45, CBS

13 Morehead State vs. 12 Richmond, 5:15 p.m., CBS

7 Temple vs. 2 San Diego State, 6:10 p.m., TNT

8 Butler vs. 1 Pittsburgh, 7:10 p.m., TBS

11 Gonzaga vs. 3 BYU, 7:45 p.m., CBS

5 Kansas State vs. 4 Wisconsin, 8:40 p.m., TNT

6 Cincinnati vs. 3 UConn, 9:40 p.m., TBS

Friday's March Madness TV Schedule

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Well my bracket was pretty average yesterday. Sort of like Jennifer Anniston's acting abilities. I got 10/16 but I still have 182 possible points. Here is today's TV schedule.

Well, first here's the link to the naked Sammi pic again just because. [NSFW unless you work at Apple, then load this bitch on every computer/iPad/iPhone in the store]

13 Oakland vs. 4 Texas, 12:15 p.m., CBS

9 Tennessee vs. 8 Michigan, 12:40 p.m., trutv

15 Akron vs. 2 Notre Dame, 1:40 p.m., TBS

9 Villanova vs. 8 George Mason, 2:10 p.m., TNT

12 Memphis vs. 5 Arizona, 2:45 p.m., CBS

16 Hampton vs. 1 Duke, 3:10 p.m., trutv

10 Florida State vs. 7 Texas A&M, 4:10 p.m., TBS

16 UTSA vs. 1 Ohio State, 4:40 p.m., TNT

16 Boston U vs. 1 Kansas, 6:50 p.m., TBS

15 Long Island vs. 2 North Carolina, 7:15 p.m., CBS

14 St. Peter's vs. 3 Purdue, 7:20 p.m., TNT

11 Marquette vs. 6 Xavier, 7:27 p.m., trutv

9 Illinois vs. 8 UNLV, 9:20 p.m., TBS

10 Georgia vs. 7 Washington, 9:45 p.m., CBS

11 VCU vs. 6 Georgetown, 9:50 p.m., TNT

14 Indiana State vs. 3 Syracuse, 9:57 p.m., trutv

March Madness Live Tweeting Extravaganza

As I said earlier, I will be live blogging/tweeting during all the games. Below is a feed of the tweets.

Everything March Madness & My Winning Bracket

I promised you that I would post my final bracket and here it is. I changed a few things from the last version but not too much. I told you my plan was to get drunk last night and make some bold changes but I went to take a nap at 6pm and didn't wake up until 6am. Yeah, I'm awesome. You'll notice that I have all four 1 seeds in the Final 4 and you can call that pussy but I'll take it to the bank. It's likely at least two will get there and instead of try to pick which two and guess wrong I'd rather give myself better odds. I will be live blogging and tweeting all of the action today so be sure to follow us on twitter (twitter.com/uggbootsformen) because it is St. Patrick's Day so I will be getting Anne Tanked and won't be at my computer all day while I'm watching the games. I'm going to post today's schedule of games along with the TV lineup below my bracket.

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12 Clemson vs. 5 West Virginia, 12:15 p.m., CBS

9 Old Dominion vs. 8 Butler, 12:40 p.m., trutv

13 Morehead St. vs. 4 Louisville, 1:40 p.m, TBS

10 Penn State vs. 7 Temple, 2:10 p.m., TNT

13 Princeton vs. 4 Kentucky, 2:45 p.m., CBS

16 UNC Asheville vs. 1 Pittsburgh, 3:10 p.m., trutv

12 Richmond vs. 5 Vanderbilt, 4:10 p.m., TBS

15 Northern Colorado vs. 2 San Diego State, 4:40 p.m. TNT

15 UC Santa Barbara vs. 2 Florida, 6:50 p.m., TBS

14 Wofford vs. 3 BYU, 7:15 p.m., CBS

14 Bucknell vs. 3 UConn, 7:20 p.m., TNT

13 Belmont vs. 4 Wisconsin, 7:27 p.m., trutv

10 Michigan State vs. 7 UCLA, 9:20 p.m., TBS

11 Gonzaga vs. 6 St. John's, 9:45 p.m., CBS

11 Missouri vs. 6 Cincinnati, 9:50 p.m., TNT

12 Utah State vs. 5 Kansas State, 9:57 p.m., trutv

Four Great March Madness Moments Legoized

In today's "some people have way too much time on their hands" feature I bring you Four Great March Madness Moments: Legoized".

Who's ready for 12+ hours of basketball tomorrow? I double dog dare someone to try this at work tomorrow while streaming the games. I posted my first bracket yesterday but my plan is to get really drunk tonight and make some bold changes so stay tuned to see what kind of crazy things I get into later.

(Via Yahoo)

NCAA Tournament Opening Night - UNC Asheville, Clemson Advance

It really didn't feel like opening night but technically it was. Two 16 seeds battled for the right to take on Pittsburgh while two 12 seeds squared off to see who would face West Virginia.

In the first game of the night, UNC-Asheville beat Arkansas-Little Rock in OT 81-77. UNCA won despite leading for only 51 seconds in regulation. The game was exciting for their players but the celebrations will be short lived as they now have to take on top seeded Pittsburgh on Thursday. A 16 seed has never beaten a 1 seed. I sense they will have the lead for exactly 0 seconds in that one.

The second game of the tournament featured 12 seeds Clemson and UAB in a game that was never really close. After trailing 4-5 2:18 in, Clemson went on a 13-0 run and didn't lead by less than 8 after that en route to a 70-52 win. It was Clemson's first win in the tourney since 1997. Clemson now faces 5 seed West Virginia in the first game on Thursday. 12v5 is always a tricky match-up. In 19 of the past 21 years at least one 12 seed has beaten a 5 seed. Add to that the fact that Ken Pomeroy's rankings, a notoriously good tournament predictor, has WVU ranked 21 and Clemson 24 and we might be in for an early upset.

Tomorrow night 16 seeds University of Texas-San Antonio and Alabama St. play at 6:30pm with the winner to face overall 1 seed Ohio State on Friday and then at 9pm 11 seeds VCU and USC play to see who will face 6th seed Georgetown. Since we all love to gamble, Pomeroy has UTSA ranked 219 and Alabama St. ranked 295 while he has USC at 44 and VCU 84.

There were also 7 NIT games but no one really cares about the NIT. Watching the NIT is like rooting for your team in the Consolation bracket during fantasy football playoffs. That being said, I will be rooting for Bethune-Cookman to beat Virginia Tech tomorrow night because Tech sucks and it's hilarious that the selection committee keeps leaving them out of the big dance.

March Madness Bracket 2011 Edition

I'm going to ignore the fact that there hasn't been a post since December 20th and just get into the 2011 NCAA Basketball Tournament. Actually, no I'm not. Blog Dylan decided to stop posting in October even though he had nothing else to do. He even deleted his facebook so he literally had nothing else to do but still was too lazy to post. And it gets really lame updating a blog by yourself. I'm actually hoping this makes Blog Dylan feel bad and he starts posting again. Anywho, the blog is officially black back for 2011!

It's everyones favorite time of year. The time of year when office productivity goes to the shitter and people call in sick pretending to have pink eye because they would rather their boss think they have pink eye than skip watching the tourney. Last night the 2011 March Madness bracket was revealed and I am here today to bring you my very early preliminary picks. This bracket is mostly chalk in the late rounds with some upsets in the first few. You can read all the articles you want that tell you things like "the total of all the final 4 teams is always around 10" or "only once (2008) have all four #1 seeds advanced to the final 4" or "Mike Krzyzewski dyes his hair". Well no one says that last thing in bracketology articles but there's no way a 64-year-old man's hair is that black. Maybe he goes to Cartoon Cuts with Barry. Back to bracketology. You can read a million articles that tell you stats like that and you can even use them to fill out your bracket but you still have to decide which of those teams it will be that follow that rule. That's where things get risky.

Right now I have three #1 seeds advancing to the final 4 even though I know the total seed is around 10. I could have picked say Texas (4), Duke (1), Purdue (3) and Pitt (1) to get to around "10" but that's way riskier. What if Ohio St. and Kansas are the only two 1 seeds to get there and the higher seeds come out of the West/Southeast? Then I'm screwed. If I went with all four 1 seeds in that scenario then I would still picked two of them. It's tough to predict what will be the higher seeded teams to advance to the elite 8/final 4 so I like going with chalk to increase my odds.

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I'm probably going to change the bracket between now and Thursday so check back to see if maybe I got drunk one night and decided to get a little risqué.