TOC Traditional Bracket Challenge

KJ will have his bracket challenge he ran at the ol' Spartans Weblog up sometime tonight or tomorrow. If you want to do a more traditional bracket, here's the information to join The Only Colors group on ESPN:

Group Name: The Only Colors
Group Password: Green5

Winner gets a random book I have lying around my apartment. It could be God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, or it could be The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, if you're lucky.

Because I want everyone to do their best, here's a tip - totally pick New Mexico and Purdue to make the Final Four. I'll be picking them too *stifles laugh*.

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Absurd home-r picks

I’m going to enjoy picking MSU for the Elight 8 (yes, I think that’s highly optimistic) and Ohio U to the Sweet Sixteen. Greg Monroe who?

by intrpdtrvlr on Mar 16, 2010 10:04 AM CDT reply actions

gametimes

has anyone seen a bracket with actual game times for this saturday? Thank you.

by Sparta on Mar 16, 2010 10:28 AM CDT reply actions

Not yet

It says TBA for the second round on the NCAA’s website, so I think we’re not going to know until Thursday’s games are done.

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by Pete Rossman on Mar 16, 2010 10:33 AM CDT up reply actions

I would love nothing more than to see Purdue beat Duke

But I probably won’t be picking them to do it. . .

by Con-T on Mar 16, 2010 10:38 AM CDT reply actions

I'd rather

Duke lose first round.

by TMadison25 on Mar 16, 2010 12:05 PM CDT up reply actions

+1

by MooTheKow on Mar 16, 2010 12:07 PM CDT up reply actions

By the way

Shouldn’t Kansas, as the overall #1, get the play-in winner, rather than Duke? Or is that not how it works?

by Con-T on Mar 16, 2010 12:21 PM CDT up reply actions

Kansas plays on Thursday

and the NCAA wants the Play-in game winner to always play on a Friday, so they don’t have to potentially play Tuesday, Thursday, and if hell freezes over, Saturday. I think in this case the geography won out (Kansas playing in Oklahoma City) over a slight difference in seeding.

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by Pete Rossman on Mar 16, 2010 12:25 PM CDT up reply actions

That makes sense

Thanks.

by Con-T on Mar 16, 2010 2:07 PM CDT up reply actions

Anyone else have a hard time with the right half?

There is not a single team I like on that side of the bracket. The Midwest came together pretty easily, and I have a good feeling about most of the West. But I almost want to abstain on the Final Four from the South – I don’t trust anyone in that region. Duke hasn’t done jack in the tournament in years, Baylor’s defense is not Final Four-caliber, Villanova’s is even worse, Purdue minus Hummel is going nowhere fast, A&M got an evil draw in the first round, and Notre Dame is this year’s Syracuse Memorial Absurdly Overseeded Big East Team Who Gets Way Too Much Credit For a Late Run.

And the East has me almost as confused. Bo Ryan teams have never done anything in March unless the bracket disintegrates around them (unlikely this time), but at the same time if they get to the Sweet 16 they seem like the kind of team could give an undisciplined Kentucky squad nightmares. Huggins has a reputation for underachieving in March, but there doesn’t seem to be any real threat in the bottom half.

by SpartanDan on Mar 16, 2010 7:32 PM CDT reply actions