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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Mar 18, 2015 8:44:06 GMT -5
Highlights from almost 3 year old Owl Jr.'s bracket:
-A 16 seed or 15 seed winning a first round game in every region
-Iowa State National Champs!!! (very proud dad moment)
-An unbelievable run to the Elite 8 for the UC-Irvine Anteaters
-Purdue shocking Kentucky in the 2nd round.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2015 14:57:36 GMT -5
Group password is avclub2013. Oddly, it let me join (and showed me the password) without requiring the password. I signed up! I like participating in things! I joined too. Full honesty, I don't watch College Basketball, so ... I guessed. |
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Post by Pear on Mar 18, 2015 16:20:08 GMT -5
I signed up! I like participating in things! I joined too. Full honesty, I don't watch College Basketball, so ... I guessed. Last year, one of my groups ended with a first place finish for someone who also didn't know anything about college basketball. Anything can happen! |
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Post by MarkInTexas on Mar 18, 2015 23:23:47 GMT -5
Unfortunately, we're only allowed to have one bracket in the AV Club bracket, so I entered in my boring one that has the same national champion that nearly everyone else's bracket does. A friend of mine's group allows for multiple brackets, so I also did a bracket where I determined the outcome of every game by coin flip (and still somehow ended up with a #1 seed--Wisconsin--as the champion), a reverse chalk bracket where the lowest seed won every game (Robert Morris wins that one), and a mascot fight one, where I determined who would win each game based on a one-on-one fight between each school's mascot/nickname (i.e. a fight between an actual tiger and an actual wildcat, not between one school's anthropomorphic tiger mascot vs. the other school's anthropomorphic wildcat mascot). I ultimately decided that Satan will beat humans, animals, and forces of nature, so congrats on winning that bracket, Duke!
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Post by Hawkguy on Mar 19, 2015 8:41:13 GMT -5
oh man i forgot about this bracket! (and I'm pretty sure I created it!)
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Post by ganews on Mar 19, 2015 8:47:14 GMT -5
Unfortunately, we're only allowed to have one bracket in the AV Club bracket, so I entered in my boring one that has the same national champion that nearly everyone else's bracket does. A friend of mine's group allows for multiple brackets, so I also did a bracket where I determined the outcome of every game by coin flip (and still somehow ended up with a #1 seed--Wisconsin--as the champion), a reverse chalk bracket where the lowest seed won every game (Robert Morris wins that one), and a mascot fight one, where I determined who would win each game based on a one-on-one fight between each school's mascot/nickname (i.e. a fight between an actual tiger and an actual wildcat, not between one school's anthropomorphic tiger mascot vs. the other school's anthropomorphic wildcat mascot). I ultimately decided that Satan will beat humans, animals, and forces of nature, so congrats on winning that bracket, Duke! I picked Kentucky to stop at the Final Four, so there. |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Mar 19, 2015 9:41:18 GMT -5
oh man i forgot about this bracket! (and I'm pretty sure I created it!) It says that Rob15862 is the creator. Pretty sure that's you. I wish I knew who all these other folks are. Based on the bracket names or userids, I only recognize like 25% of the entries. |
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Post by Hawkguy on Mar 19, 2015 9:42:06 GMT -5
oh man i forgot about this bracket! (and I'm pretty sure I created it!) It says that Rob15862 is the creator. Pretty sure that's you. I wish I knew who all these other folks are. Based on the bracket names or userids, I only recognize like 25% of the entries. ha yea its me |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 13:07:13 GMT -5
UAB's hanging in there strong. . . somebody check Superb Owl 🦉's blood pressure. . . |
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Post by Hawkguy on Mar 19, 2015 13:16:58 GMT -5
UAB's hanging in there strong. . . somebody check Superb Owl 🦉's blood pressure. . . or mine! hell talking with him convinced me to have them go decently far! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 13:44:55 GMT -5
Oh no.
Edit: Georgia State hanging tough as well. I knew that the big 12 was overrated nationally (OSU a 9 seed?) but this is ridiculous.
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Post by Hawkguy on Mar 19, 2015 13:54:19 GMT -5
 Burninating the brackets! |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Mar 19, 2015 13:57:59 GMT -5
GODDAMMITTTT!!!!!! Did you learn your lesson after Maryland (who actually turned out to be decent, but you didn't know that)? NO! Did you learn your lesson after South Carolina? FUCK NO! Did you learn your lesson after goddamn Texas Tech?! OF COURSE NOT!!! I don't care if you are most definitely better than the other team, you still have to actually try and attempt something other than SportsCenter passes on every play until you piss a 10-point lead down your leg!!! I...I am just sad now  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 14:02:46 GMT -5
GODDAMMITTTT!!!!!! Did you learn your lesson after Maryland (who actually turned out to be decent, but you didn't know that)? NO! Did you learn your lesson after South Carolina? FUCK NO! Did you learn your lesson after goddamn Texas Tech?! OF COURSE NOT!!! I don't care if you are most definitely better than the other team, you still have to actually try and attempt something other than SportsCenter passes on every play until you piss a 10-point lead down your leg!!! I...I am just sad now I'm sorry duder. Underdog runs are fun, but man - nothing is more painful than seeing your team upset early in the first slate of games. Sort of sucks the joy out of the whole opening weekend, especially when you know you had such a talented team. Rough, rough finish. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 14:05:01 GMT -5
Oh no. Edit: Georgia State hanging tough as well. I knew that the big 12 was overrated nationally (OSU a 9 seed?) but this is ridiculous. Georgia State in a one possession game, Butler starting strong - good lord, this could turn out to be a PAINFUL afternoon for the B12. |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Mar 19, 2015 14:08:09 GMT -5
GODDAMMITTTT!!!!!! Did you learn your lesson after Maryland (who actually turned out to be decent, but you didn't know that)? NO! Did you learn your lesson after South Carolina? FUCK NO! Did you learn your lesson after goddamn Texas Tech?! OF COURSE NOT!!! I don't care if you are most definitely better than the other team, you still have to actually try and attempt something other than SportsCenter passes on every play until you piss a 10-point lead down your leg!!! I...I am just sad now I'm sorry duder. Underdog runs are fun, but man - nothing is more painful than seeing your team upset early in the first slate of games. Sort of sucks the joy out of the whole opening weekend, especially when you know you had such a talented team. Rough, rough finish. Yea, I'll get over it pretty quick, but I doubt I'll muster up the enthusiasm to watch other games when I get home tonight. As long as Iowa doesn't make a big run...that would be twisting the knife too much in this state. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 14:32:38 GMT -5
I'm sorry duder. Underdog runs are fun, but man - nothing is more painful than seeing your team upset early in the first slate of games. Sort of sucks the joy out of the whole opening weekend, especially when you know you had such a talented team. Rough, rough finish. Yea, I'll get over it pretty quick, but I doubt I'll muster up the enthusiasm to watch other games when I get home tonight. As long as Iowa doesn't make a big run...that would be twisting the knife too much in this state. On the occasions when KU has been upset (and there have been far too many), the only thing I end up rooting for is a higher seed to lose in order to bump the Kansas upset from being the top story. |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Mar 19, 2015 14:55:28 GMT -5
Wallet Inspector @supernintendochalmers I can already hear the keyboards firing up hot takes about how overrated the Big 12 was this year.
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Post by MarkInTexas on Mar 19, 2015 15:13:16 GMT -5
I'm sorry duder. Underdog runs are fun, but man - nothing is more painful than seeing your team upset early in the first slate of games. Sort of sucks the joy out of the whole opening weekend, especially when you know you had such a talented team. Rough, rough finish. In the grand scheme of things, having your team get upset isn't that big of a deal, but at the moment... Three years ago, I could only watch as my alma mater lost to a 15 seed. That was bad enough, but on top of all the other stuff I had gone through over the previous two weeks (gotten laid off, grandmother died, bad car accident and dickish insurance company), seeing them go down really felt like the icing on the shit cake that was my life right about then. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 16:13:41 GMT -5
Hoo boy. Big 12 just starting to look sad now. Yikes.
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Post by MarkInTexas on Mar 20, 2015 9:50:18 GMT -5
A big part of the epic flameout of the Not-So-Big 12-2-2+2 yesterday was the even more epic flameout of the state of Texas. 5 teams in the tourney, 0 teams alive on Day 2 (not counting the First Four, because no one counts the First Four).
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Post by MarkInTexas on Mar 20, 2015 10:04:40 GMT -5
Oh, and for the 3rd time in 4 years, one of my Final Four teams goes out in the first round. Welcome, Iowa State, to the club. You can hang out with 2013 Georgetown and 2012 Missouri right in here.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Mar 20, 2015 10:16:01 GMT -5
Yea, going with my heart while filling out my bracket was not the way to go. From now on I'm just going for the reverse jinx every year and having ISU lose in the first round.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2015 13:32:21 GMT -5
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Post by Jimmy James on Mar 20, 2015 14:57:49 GMT -5
I thought one guy in our office pool was some kind of guru for picking both UAB and Georgia State, but on further inspection, he just picked a shit ton of upsets and got lucky on those two.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2015 17:05:29 GMT -5
Besides Kansas moving forward, there's nothins I want more in this tournament than for UC-Irvine to win. Because - obviously - Anteaters. There's no more endearing a college mascot than the Anteaters.
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Post by ganews on Mar 20, 2015 18:58:55 GMT -5
Being in Georgia (and tomorrow, Atlanta) for Georgia State's performance has been pretty fun.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Mar 20, 2015 20:12:25 GMT -5
Condolences to Chalmers, even if he was probably expecting a quick exit for the Cowpokes.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Mar 20, 2015 20:34:44 GMT -5
Good grief. Just realized the wedding I am going to in Tucson tomorrow will be taking place during the second half of the Ohio State/Arizona game. Wonder how many of the attendees will be covertly watching their phones?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2015 22:04:27 GMT -5
My bracket, the tennis bracket, could only be doing worse if it was in the hands of Andy roddick in any grand slam that wasn't the US Open.
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