March Madness!

[jblackburn]

As an attempt to get conversation going here:

Hopefully some of you have been watching the March Madness games at least as much as I have. If you filled out a bracket, post it up here or tell us your predictions for the Final Four games/any of the upsets that you've seen this year.

Here's mine; as you can see I've been wrong on quite a few.

Being from North Carolina, of course I'm naturally a Tar Heel fan. My other team, VT, was completely jipped from the tournament this year by the selection committee even after we beat Duke. Figures they still got a #1 seed...

[matthew1]

So that mapping graphic is your prediction?

What happens if you get each game correct? The odds of that must be astronomical.

[jblackburn]

You can enter into pools with everyone else in the nation. Ideally, if you predict everything, which is near impossible, you're entered into a raffle drawing or something where you can win large sums of money. Mine's doing pretty terrible

One of the ladies I work with is in the 99.9 percentile on ESPN - like 4000th nationwide out of millions. She's only gotten like one or two games wrong - I don't think anyone saw that Morehead St victory over #4 Louisville - Louisville has always gone pretty far into the championship in the past.

In good news, DUKE LOST!!! Arizona played an awesome game last night

[FCPEURO]

I wish I was more into Basketball. Everyone is talking about March Madness at work and all I can do is smile and nod.

[jblackburn]

I think a lot of it depends where you came from when you were younger. I'm from the Triangle area of North Carolina, where we have NC State, Duke, and UNC-Chapel Hill all within 20 miles of each other. Basketball has always been HUGE around our area; football not so much. When I came to Virginia Tech, it was only our 2nd year in the ACC conference, and no one really cared about basketball here. We're almost entirely a football school that almost everyone knows now.

[Ozark Lee]

I wish I was more into Basketball. Everyone is talking about March Madness at work and all I can do is smile and nod.

I hate professional basketball and for the most part I hate college basketball. Wake me up for the last 3 minutes.

But then comes the NCAA tournament and I get very interested. It is just fun.

Anything can happen and it usually does (just look at the SW bracket).

My son was home from Kansas State for their loss and he was somewhat heartbroken but Pullen and the gang played their guts out against Wisconsin, even the Frank Martin stare couldn't win that one.

I love Justin's bracket that has KU vs KU (Bill Self vs Roy Williams). Roy was great for KU and everyone around here has a soft spot in their heart for the guy but clearly the KU flags are waving in my neighborhood as I look out the window and it begins to snow again.

...Lee

[jimmyboy]

I went to school years ago at a small Christian college. So, while I don't really have a favorite team, I must say that the March Madness games are always a blast to watch most years. I'd actually kind of like Ohio to win.

[jblackburn]

KU vs KU (Bill Self vs Roy Williams).

You picked up on that, eh? He's the greatest thing that's happened to UNC since Dean Smith left. It will be interesting if it comes down to that.

[FCPEURO]

I think a lot of it depends where you came from when you were younger. I'm from the Triangle area of North Carolina, where we have NC State, Duke, and UNC-Chapel Hill all within 20 miles of each other. Basketball has always been HUGE around our area; football not so much. When I came to Virginia Tech, it was only our 2nd year in the ACC conference, and no one really cared about basketball here. We're almost entirely a football school that almost everyone knows now.

You are probably right. I am much more into Football then Basketball. Baseball I am hit or miss. I normally don't get into that until the playoffs because there are just to many games to keep up with.