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Madness at our house

Rockin' Doc Mar 16 2008 06:34 PM

It's March madness time. The field of 65 has been selected and now it's time to prove how little we actually know by filling out a bracket.

AG/DC Mar 16 2008 06:43 PM

See, I actually thought you had Madness staying at your house.

Nymr83 Mar 16 2008 07:27 PM

who is starting the bracket??

DocTee Mar 16 2008 08:30 PM

Seo? Haven't heard from him in a while...

Frayed Knot Mar 16 2008 09:06 PM

This tourney hasn't started yet and I'm already sick of it.

bmfc1 Mar 17 2008 06:21 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 17 2008 08:41 AM

I set up a private group at ESPN. Name: Crane Pool Forum Password: santana There's an option for a motto. Please post one, if you want. SEAWOLF EDIT: YAHOO GROUP IS OPEN AS WELL. SEE PAGE 2.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 17 2008 07:11 AM

I just learned that my "alma mater," Baltimore's Coppin State is in the tourney. I never attended Coppin as a student, but I worked there on a brief assignment for a couple of months at the end of 2002. I know nothing about college basketball, but I assume they're rather a longshot. But because of my tenuous connection to them, I'm rooting for them to at least advance a few rounds. Go Coppin!

seawolf17 Mar 17 2008 07:22 AM

I'm trying to get in, but it's telling me the password is incorrect.

RealityChuck Mar 17 2008 08:10 AM

I'm actually interested for the first time (I am not a basketball fan -- the sport is just too dull, especially since they added the shot clock.* Only the last five minutes of the game has any potential for excitement, and until some team gets a shutout, talking about defense is ludicrous). The college where I work (Siena) is in it for the first time since 2002, and is given a chance to upset their opponent (everything would have to fall into place, but it's not like the last time, when they played Maryland the year they won the championship). Plus, my daughter's alma mater, American University, is in it for the first time. After the both lose (probably Friday for AU, with a slight chance of Siena making it to Sunday), I'll turn it off and not waste any more time on it. *I found watching the four corners fascinating.

bmfc1 Mar 17 2008 08:41 AM

seawolf17 wrote: I'm trying to get in, but it's telling me the password is incorrect. My bad--"santana" is in lowercase.

TheOldMole Mar 17 2008 09:19 AM

Once you get to ESPN.com, what do you do?

MFS62 Mar 17 2008 10:16 AM

RealityChuck wrote: I'm actually interested for the first time (I am not a basketball fan -- the sport is just too dull, especially since they added the shot clock. Chuck, I don't believe you remember those days. You look much younger. Later

bmfc1 Mar 17 2008 10:22 AM

TheOldMole wrote: Once you get to ESPN.com, what do you do? Look for Tournament Challenge and find our "private" group. You'll have to register if you haven't already done so.

Willets Point Mar 17 2008 02:04 PM

AG/DC wrote: See, I actually thought you had Madness staying at your house. Hmm...not the expected pairing for "Madness" and "Our House."

AG/DC Mar 17 2008 02:06 PM

When some would zig, I zag. That's just how I roll. Plus, far better song.

Frayed Knot Mar 17 2008 08:47 PM

Media types spending days on end quizzing other media types about who they've got in their personal "Sweet Sixteen" -- or in their 'Elite Eight', or 'Final Four', or for their 'Cinderella', or whatever -- is an incredably mindless waste of time even though it remains an unending facination to themselves.

Willets Point Mar 17 2008 09:35 PM

Frayed Knot wrote: Media types spending days on end quizzing other media types about who they've got in their personal "Sweet Sixteen" -- or in their 'Elite Eight', or 'Final Four', or for their 'Cinderella', or whatever -- is an incredably mindless waste of time even though it remains an unending facination to themselves. You are not required to pay attention to it.

Frayed Knot Mar 18 2008 08:12 AM

I realize that of course. It's just that I happened to be reading here last night when I turned on sports radio hoping to get some NYMets news and was immediately treated to a Q&A between the host and some talking head where each is talking about not only who's going to win in round one but also rounds 2, 3, etc. And it occured to me while this was on in the background that while the two participants couldn't have been more engrossed in the coversation I couldn't ignore the similarity of it to the torture of listening to someone tell you every detail about his rotisserie team. Add that to the fact that this same conversation will take place hundreds of times over the coming days and weeks AND that these self-proclaimed experts generally have no better shot at winning their office pools than does the no-nothing secretary down the hall and my thoughts got transfered into a CPF rant. We now return you to your regular hoops tourney thread already in progress.

bmfc1 Mar 19 2008 09:25 AM

As of this morning, only 3 people in the CPF ESPN pool!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 19 2008 09:43 AM

need link

bmfc1 Mar 19 2008 10:10 AM

Name: Crane Pool Forum Password: santana Go to espn.com and follow the omnipresent links to the Men's Tournament Challenge.

HahnSolo Mar 19 2008 10:35 AM

bmfc1 wrote: As of this morning, only 3 people in the CPF ESPN pool! Page is almost always unavailable. Have gone through registration process with ESPN, but that's as far as I get.

Nymr83 Mar 19 2008 11:28 AM

i registered but i agree that espn's process is a bitch. anyone want to do cbs or yahoo?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 19 2008 11:47 AM

do yahoo

Nymr83 Mar 19 2008 11:53 AM

WE ARE LIVE ON YAHOO! group name: cranepool password: santana Your group ID# is 161825 link for the lazy: [url]http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1?tid=1609466[/url]

Methead Mar 19 2008 12:05 PM

In.

Willets Point Mar 19 2008 12:11 PM

In.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 19 2008 12:15 PM

in. sorry, espn's too difficult.

Nymr83 Mar 19 2008 12:21 PM

can some mod please delete all the espn discussion so as not to confuse anyone about where to go?

seawolf17 Mar 19 2008 12:24 PM

Will do.

soupcan Mar 19 2008 06:14 PM

In on Yahoo.

TransMonk Mar 19 2008 07:54 PM

In.

Rockin' Doc Mar 19 2008 09:15 PM

I'm in for some humiliation.

DocTee Mar 19 2008 09:56 PM

In

holychicken Mar 20 2008 07:30 AM

YOU WANT MADNESS? I WILL GIVE YOU MADNESS!

metirish Mar 20 2008 08:49 AM

Teams to hate. http://www.slate.com/id/2186858

Willets Point Mar 20 2008 09:00 AM

My brother-in-law went to Duke so I kind of have a soft spot for the Blue Devils. Then again I really don't care for college basketball so I haven't had an opportunity to build up any hate.

AG/DC Mar 20 2008 09:01 AM

Hate is for Hitler.

Willets Point Mar 20 2008 09:01 AM

Nice Godwining AG.

Rockin' Doc Mar 20 2008 04:17 PM

Maybe the guys at the Slate were trying to be funny, but if they were, I fail to see the humor in anything they wrote. It would be far more constructive to praise those schools that have been successful while following the rules as set forth by the NCAA, rather than expounding hatred for schools simply because you don't like their name, mascot, or that they had the audacity to be good this year when they are generally conference celler dwellers.

Rockin' Doc Mar 20 2008 07:21 PM

Duke deserved to lose!!!* *And I'm a Duke fan.

smg58 Mar 20 2008 07:26 PM

Belmont does everything right all game, has a lead with half a minute to go, then makes no attempt to take a decent shot, then forgets to play defense, then forgets to take a timeout to regain composure, then forces up a shot, then gets a break on the alternate possession only to throw the most ill-advised inbounds pass I've ever seen. It might not bother me so much if I didn't hate Duke as much as I hate the Yankees.

Rockin' Doc Mar 21 2008 04:53 PM

Wow! San Diego takes out UConn in OT.

Nymr83 Mar 21 2008 04:59 PM

Rockin' Doc wrote: Wow! San Diego takes out UConn in OT. strange situation, i was rootig against uconn even though i picked them (in my pool for money) because other people had picked them to advance further than i did

Rockin' Doc Mar 22 2008 10:00 AM

I can't seem to log back on to our group on Yahoo to view how our brackets are doing.

Rockin' Doc Mar 22 2008 05:34 PM

West Virginia dominates the glass and sends an ice cold Duke team home. Wisconsin's solid team play is too much for Micheal Beasley, the most dominant player in college, to overcome. Kansas State returns to Manhattan and Beasley can start prepariong to hear his name called as the first pick in the NBA draft.

DocTee Mar 22 2008 08:17 PM

I'm also logged out

Rockin' Doc Mar 23 2008 04:09 PM

Tough weekend for the #2 seeds. Little Davidson rallies behind their superstar Stephen Curry to knock off Georgetown. Meanwhile, #2 Tennessee is pushed to overtime by Butler and #2 Texas narrowly hangs on against Miami to escape with a 3 point win.

TransMonk Mar 28 2008 07:38 PM

I'm out. No one would have beat Davidson tonight.

Centerfield Apr 08 2008 04:55 PM

Memphis like so needed Hakim Warrick last night.