Comments | flav_o_rich: NCAA Tournament

flav_o_rich

NCAA Tournament

Mar 23, 2007 07:59

Like many friends and acquaintances, I too was drawn into the fray, and made many picks. Some proved to be minor strokes of genius (I'm the only one I know who picked all four 8-v-9 games correctly), and some proved to be pure folly (George Washington can surely upset Vanderbilt! Um, oops). But this happens to everyone who plays every year.

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surrdave March 28 2007, 04:28:55 UTC

Vandy damn near upset Georgetown... oh well.

I think next year I'll go with a reverse bracket--choose the underdog in every single matchup. Last year I rode a wave of upsets to take an early point lead in the office pool, but then my reign ended.

flav_o_rich April 1 2007, 04:12:16 UTC

I don't know if I'd go that far. I usually don't pick any upsets more extreme than a 4-13 game in the opening round. Or any random game that might involve Georgia Tech.

That said, I haven't had to mark a single new result wrong since the opening weekend. And I just got my title game matchup within the last hour (along with at least 10% of the rest of the USA. I just need to get one more right, and I win . . . some minor pride points among my fellow GT Band Alumni. No money.