<p>“There are apparently 16 perfect brackets left in the billion dollar challenge.” </p>
<p>Duke likely killed off all the others. </p>
<p>Evidently in the ESPN pool, there are 11 million in the pool. There are currently 6 perfect brackets left. Half have George Washington and half have Memphis, so have that game there will be 3. </p>
<p>The Mercer-Duke game was incredible!</p>
<p>Per Yahoo Sports:<br>
“not one single billion-dollar entry was able to escape the Round of 64 without picking at least one game incorrectly. Memphis’ 71-66 win over George Washington eliminated the final three brackets that were eligible to win $1 billion.” </p>
<p>Jeeze! Duke lost; do they need the hate too? My D is crushed. </p>
<p>I am rooting for Brad, who still has a perfect bracket (32/32). I presume that he did not enter for the billion dollars. Since I am at my typical 75% level, I didn’t lose anything by not signing up for the billion-dollar competition. If Brad winds up with all of the games predicted correctly, I hope that they will give him the billion, anyway.</p>
<p>Re Duke: If you can’t count on Perennial Basketball Powerhouse Duke, who can you count on? The decline of the West. A rift in the space-time continuum, etc. </p>
<p>Who is Brad?</p>
<p>ETA:
NM … I just figured it out.</p>
<p>I did some playing around with various picking percentages to the 64th power. If you could pick each game with 90% certainty, you have just over a 1 in 1000 chance of getting 64 correct. If you drop the certainly level to 80%, your changes drop to about 6 in 10 million. It was easy money for Warren Buffett to collect the insurance premium.</p>
<p>I entered a pool thinking it was just for fun, and I put in totally homer picks. Now I find out it was for money.
Not happy. </p>
<p>Okay new pool rules: Lowest score wins. Go Dog Henry! lol </p>
<p>I went 25-7 in round 1, and so far, I’m 2-0 today. I correctly predicted the Harvard, Stephen F. Austin, and Tennessee upsets. I have 14/16 Sweet Sixteen remaining, and all of my Elite Eight, Final Four, and championship picks are still intact. I have Florida over Arizona in the championship, and I have Michigan State and Louisville as my other two Final Four teams. </p>
<p>Stanford beats Kansas. Love it!</p>
<p>Sweet indeed. </p>
<p>Oh, brother!</p>
<p>collegealum314, I think you could have done pretty well with “totally homer” picks this year, if they were the <em>right</em> totally homer picks. I’m averaging about 75% so far, which is about where I’ve been in previous years. I didn’t enter for the billion dollars, so at least I have the comfort of thinking I have lost nothing.</p>
<p>Quit a shocker that the Shockers lost to UK. </p>
<p>ISU won over UNC in a different fashion. I am an ISU fan, though would understand if the UNC coaching staff staged a protest.</p>
<p>Didn’t catch the end of the game- what happened? </p>
<p>^Iowa State made a layup with 2 seconds left to go ahead by two. After getting the ball, the UNC player raced across the half-court line and attempted to call a timeout with what looked like less than a second left, but the clock ran all the way down to zero. After looking at the monitor, the refs ruled that the game was over. I’m not sure I get it, but the announcers agreed with the call.</p>
<p>The deal was that the clock wasn’t started at the beginning of the play. When the timeout was called, there was 1.6 left on the clock, however, the clock wasn’t started when it should have been in the previous play. When the referee crew went back and looked at when the previous play went live, more than 1.6 had elapsed before the clock was started in the first place. Was listening to it on the radio and the announcers were explaining it.</p>