<p>Seriously…next round, we’ll be watching two 12 vs 13 seed games. Today was ridiculous!</p>
<p>I can’t believe this is the first I’ve seen this thread.</p>
<p>Go Toreros! (D2 is a freshman there)</p>
<p>My Midwest regional bracket on Facebook has gone up in smoke. Thanks, Vanderbilt, USC, Clemson, Kent State (my one 8/9 underdog pick) and Gonzaga… special honors go to UCONN and Oregon.</p>
<p>Oh, well. At least Georgetown’s still in it. To win it, of course. <em>knocks on wood</em></p>
<p>Well, at least it’ll be interesting. Last year, the powers that be did a great job of seeding, and there weren’t many upsets (if I’m remembering correctly). And, now that it doesn’t matter, it’ll be fun to root for the underdogs, like San Diego.</p>
<p>Too many close games – not good for my heart or bracket!</p>
<p>So, anyone think that applications will be up at Davidson next year? ;)</p>
<p>The first of my CC 2008 predictions has come true - Davidson in the sweet 16 baby!!!</p>
<p>Well Davidson really messed up my brackets–but have to say I’m happy they won. My son used to play against the Curry boy in AAU basketball and he and his parents were always such nice people.</p>
<p>tiaktan,
Yeah, but Georgrgeotwn just went up in flames (watches DS2 teaing out his hair as his picks have been going belly-up all weekend).</p>
<p>Best games so far: Belmont vs. Duke and WKU vs. Drake.</p>
<p>What I love is the number of people in my other pool – the one involving money! – that had G’Town winning next round, too, so my Wisconsin pick is going to keep me at the head of the pack, I hope! I can live with G’Town losing, especially because one of the Davidson boys looks a lot like my son, and that’s a kick to watch him play.</p>
<p>And where is Davidson anyhow???</p>
<p>Just north of Charlotte, on Lake Norman - which player? One of the Davidson players had a brother on Siena’s team playing at the same time - what a thrill those parents must have had!</p>
<p>I thought San Diego vs. Connecticut and Stanford vs. Marquette were great games too…but seriously, Davidson just destroyed my bracket. Ugh…</p>
<p>The cute one, of course, rachacha. :)</p>
<p>Jason Richards, no. 2.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.davidsonwildcats.com/roster.asp?playerid=34&sport=3[/url]”>http://www.davidsonwildcats.com/roster.asp?playerid=34&sport=3</a></p>
<p>My boys thought it was somewhere in the Carolinas, but not sure where exactly.</p>
<p>Davidson is a fabulous, very selective liberal arts school, with an enrollment of about 1,600, which manages to compete in 21 Division 1 sports, most notably, basketball. Davidson applications ^^^^^ Davidson yield^^^^^</p>
<p>OK, problem here. Son closed my window and now I can’t find our ccparents group again. Can someone talk me through?</p>
<p>I use the link from the first post in this thread …hope that helps.
Husband is not smiling as much today, but still has hopes :)</p>
<p>thanks, I finally got it—I was trying to sign in with my info from amazon—duh!!!</p>
<p>I participated in a pool with folks who are friends of my husband’s. Most of them are serious sports people and pride themselves on being experts–they are mostly engineering geeks. Anyway–I did a little bit of research, but also picked a few teams for silly reasons. For example, I picked Davidson simply because my daughter’s best friend goes there. That was one of several lucky pick! As of today, I’ve got the most points in the pool.</p>
<p>I am currently winning the pool I play. This is mainly due to my picks of Butler, Western Kentucky and Villanova. The pool I play does not involve picking the bracket. You pick 16 teams, and the teams get point values depending on their seed. Seeds 1-3 score 1 point each time they win, seeds 4-6 2 points, 7-9 3 points etc. It is crucial to pick some upsets by higher point-value teams. You can’t pick every game since you only get 16 teams, so there is some strategy in what games to pick. I did NOT pick Duke, because I knew they weren’t going very far.
If Davidson doesn’t win again (I do not have them, although I was happy to see them win) I should win the whole thing. It would help for Stanford to lose, too.<br>
I thought the Duke/Belmont game was amazing. I also thought the Vanderbilt/Siena game was amazing, but NOT in a positive way. I watched Vanderbilt all season (had season tickets) and have never seen such a horrible performance.
And how does Memphis get by with such a bad foul shooting percentage? Bobby Knight would have locked them in the gym for a couple of nights until that improved!</p>