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Step One: Get in a bracket challenge (I got you fam, see below) Step Two: Enjoy arbitrarily screaming at your screen for Texas S&M to beat the Bojangles State Shivs  It's that time of year when us casual sports fans not only realize that college basketball exists, but also can be really really fun with some skin in the game. Also it's the swan song for Duke's legendary Coach K. so a lot of people are rooting against his team there because he is not well-liked, y'all. I'm running my FREE bracket challenge for the 7th non-consecutive year, and buying a pizza dinner from a non-chain restaurant for the winner. Last year's thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3962143&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 Last year's prize:  This year's bracket challenge: https://fantasy.espn.com/tournament...itesource=email Group: Absurd Madness Password: toucan This is the thread for discussing your various bracket Cinderellas and Busters. This is a thread for celebrating breakout players and making fun of teams that made questionable moral decisions when hiring coaches but still got upset and eliminated early. This is a thread for using the NCAA tourneys (talking about the women's tourney is encouraged) to take your mind off of the real world. I love you. Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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As always, second post is reserved for me talking ice cold smack about random teams like Northern Alaska Agricultural & Mechanical Let's start with the South Region, 8th seed. This year it's a traditionally Catholic school known as... Satan Hell  Seton Hall is a defense-oriented team that will net you $20,000 if you bet $100 on them right now. Wikipedia tells me it has an "endowment" of $265 million, which means they are very well-endowed. They have an a cappella group called the Seton Notes, which I thought was a pretty plain name until I realized it is a palindrome. Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Mar 13, 2022 |
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This is what I posted last year:Big Beef City posted:I'm going to win big! And I will continue to stand by that statement.
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Hell yeah, I love March Madness and making a huge rear end out of myself as I pretend to understand college basketball. Looking forward to making predictions based on stupid qualifiers like having someone on the team named Jimmer or having an old nun bless the team before every game.
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West region, 13th seed... Vermont Catamounts  As I alluded in the OP, the joy of March Madness comes not just from rooting for the team you arbitrarily picked to win. There is great satisfaction in watching a really unlikeable team eventually get the boot. For me, one of those teams is clearly the Vermont Men's basketball team. First of all, when the Catamounts won the Big East division title, the school's social media posts congratulating itself were flooded with angry rants about how they have covered up and delayed sexual assault investigations. https://www.wcax.com/2022/02/18/stu...20IX%20process. While that alone is more than enough to make them a 2022 March Madness heel, there's more. Last Saturday they beat the UMBC Retrievers in the America East conference championship, securing their bid in the tourney and sending UMBC home. Had UMBC won, this guy would've gone to the Big Dance:  Darnell Rogers. He's FIVE FOOT TWO (1.6 METERS)!! I love me some Muggsys, and this guy is literally the shortest college basketball player of all time. I'm booing for you, Vermont. Boo!
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Mar 14, 2022 16:07
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Drunk Nerds posted:
March Sadness
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Mar 14, 2022 16:30
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kntfkr posted:March Sadness Give 'em a break: They're in Canada. We're lucky it didn't have gravy on it.
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Mar 14, 2022 16:32
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i actually watched the championship stuff last week and i don't know why trending into a renewed interest in watching basketball in general, having Giannis in town is rubbing off on me
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Mar 14, 2022 16:54
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I hate sports but love to pick Illinois to go all the way every year in some random March Madness pool so this year it is yours! WOooOOOOoO
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Mar 14, 2022 17:30
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South Region, 14th seed... Longwood Lancers  Longwood wins my 2022 award for "NCAA Tournament College Most Likely to Be Fictional." First of all, I went through every NCAA tournament in history and there's no sign of any Longwood. Second of all, Wikipedia lists their city as "Farmville" which we all know is a fictional town. Third, they claim their coach is an oil magnate named Griff. Come on, now, that's clearly a character stolen from an 1980s soap opera. Nice try, Longwood: The whole world will know you don't exist when Tennessee takes the court and you don't show. Also their team name would be a good nickname for someone who has the job of piercing genitals Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Mar 15, 2022 |
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Mar 15, 2022 16:50
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Idk the first thing about any sport ever but I got my money on Brett Farve of the Dallas Cowboys. Hook em Horns let's go!
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Mar 15, 2022 16:54
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My bracket's gonna be busted by the first round lmao Monkey on a dartboard theory is real folks
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Mar 15, 2022 16:56
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Drunk Nerds posted:Nice try, Longwood: The whole world will know you don't exist when Tennessee takes the court and you don't show. You should always root for Tennessee to lose if for no other reason than their fans melt down in the funniest ways possible For example, when their football coach bailed for another school:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYAsxnRaTAg
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Mar 15, 2022 19:27
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Haven't made a bracket in a while, this should be fun!
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Mar 15, 2022 20:22
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gently caress tom br*dy
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Mar 15, 2022 21:23
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Chinatown posted:gently caress tom br*dy Let's all put Michigan losing in the first round to show solidarity
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 Only 25 hours left to submit a bracket!It's better to submit one now. Just imagine: It's this weekend. You are watching cable news coverage of the world, feeling horrible. You flip the channels during a commercial, see a basketball game, and realize it could've taken your mind off the world for a few minutes if you had only joined a bracket contest. Don't be that you. Be the best you. South Region, 10th Seed... Loyola Ramblers  Loyola Chicago is a plucky team that has made some decent progress in the NCAA Tournament, including a 2018 final four run as the 11th seed. But what gets most people interested is their team chaplain/occasional scout, the 102-year-old Sister Jean. The centenarian nun makes the trips to the tournament and sits courtside with her Ramblers squad. Another fun angle is that Loyola faces a quite-beatable 7th seeded Ohio State Squad. A lot of people love to root against OSU. My dad went there, and so I can't root against them, but I'm mainly into following their football team so go ahead and pick 'em to lose, don't worry about my emotions. It seems that Loyola also beat the University of Northern Iowa in their conference tournament. That's my mom's alma mater. What the heck, Sister Jean, I'm starting to take this personally.
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I'm in!
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I'm in as well, though my other brackets are all in the CBS thing, so I may not check too much beyond this thread! Thanks for doing this, OP.
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Mar 16, 2022 23:47
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What the hell, I am in. I know jack poo poo about college basketball, but it will give me incentive to watch now.
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drunkb posted:What the hell, I am in. I know jack poo poo about college basketball, but it will give me incentive to watch now. Exactly, my drunk brethren. Nobody knows anything about this sport, but a bracket brings the rush of gambling with none of the risk. A Strange Aeon posted:I'm in as well, though my other brackets are all in the CBS thing, so I may not check too much beyond this thread! Thanks for doing this, OP. Usually my think-tank keeps tabs on possible outcomes and tells me when there is a short enough list of contestants still remaining. Then I post it here, so you can just check here for updates.
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Mar 17, 2022 01:35
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My mom sent me her bracket to enter. She picked 4th seeded UCLA over her 7th seeded USC in the finals. She didnt enter a tiebreaker final score, so I just put in 999-998 because, if she is in first after the finals, there is no way anyone else is going to be tied with her. Still >2 more hours left to enter! Moooooooorning sports! Also, please note the prize is pizza from a place near the winner, so all you non-North Americans can still  and win
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Mar 17, 2022 14:57
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Cannot wait for my bracket to be busted this morning
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Yeah, I feel like after the first weekend I lose all enthusiasm because I'm busted to heck and back already usually.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Yeah, I feel like after the first weekend I lose all enthusiasm because I'm busted to heck and back already usually. Just don't look!
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Mar 17, 2022 15:55
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It is the basketball day.
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Chief McHeath posted:It is the basketball day. Half an hour left, good luck everyone! I didn't have to put in my usual chalk second entry: One of my nine year old sons picked a chalk bracket. Only he didn't say "just go all chalk," he made me sit there while he deliberated each game, then invariably picked the better seed. 60 times. Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Mar 17, 2022 |
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Mar 17, 2022 17:13
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You can just send me the pizza
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I made a bracket yesterday and was fiddling with it today but then was too late to save before the deadline!
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My fiancée chose her bracket based purely on school name and her thoughts on the location of the school, and she’s doing better than me.. 
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Mar 18, 2022 00:41
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Kentucky lost to a team called Saint Peter's Peacocks
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San Francisco is about to play. Their center's parents are in a Ukranian city getting shelled rn
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Drunk Nerds posted:Kentucky lost to a team called Saint Peter's Peacocks Holy poo poo. You weren’t kidding lol!!!
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Drunk Nerds posted:Kentucky lost to a team called Saint Peter's Peacocks Lmao my bracket is already toast
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Mar 18, 2022 03:15
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Round one in the books! Go Bucky  How'd everyone make out?
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Ooof I dropped from tied at 18 to tied at 31  I don't think I'm gonna win this year
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19th but my possible points is pretty low because I had Iowa in the final four. Need UCLA to carry me now
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I'm tied for 19th with a bunch of you and I'll never have pizza
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Who the hell was already in first place before picking North Carolina to upset Baylor?
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That Baylor game had me screaming! Stuck in a cluster for 12th place currently.
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