Board 8 > Last-second links to various B8 March Madness contests

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Leonhart4 posted...

Michigan State over UNC was my big opening weekend upset

Looking good early!

Me too!

Leonhart4 posted...

I think I jinxed it

FUCK!

My R1 was pitiful. 19/32, Down 3 S16 teams (and UK in the E8)

going 1-3 on the last window both nights was brutal. At least I swept the first 4 games today.

Tennessee has been ice cold this first half and we're still leading by 9 at halftime

If they can get their shooting together, they should win easily

i have them in the final four so i hope they do!

RIP my Oakland

I will credit this game for making me realize I had a Max subscription I never cancelled

bye bye

would have appreciated a less stressful game there tennessee but i'll take it

The good news is Tennessee can't play much worse than that on offense and we still won

I've already lost half my final four whoo

Not basketball, but yaya go my Penn State absolutely dominating NCAA Wrestling.
Broke Iowa's record of most points for a team in a tournament.

7/8 yesterday - with the one miss being lol kentucky

is this the beginning of my redemption arc? (no)

Potential March Madness moment in the making

I originally planned to not check the brackets until it was over since I knew that my bracket was screwed after the round of 64. I have a low max score, but I'm sitting in the top half of the Men's ESPN group at least, so that's not awful. Everyone still has their champion left, including the person who picked NC St. to win it all and McNeese St. in the Final Four

27/32 then 13/16. Elite 8 is all still alive. Sitting at 99.6% on ESPN.

Has to be the best I've done in a long time, if not ever. Of course, the seeds to get to the S16 are 1, 2, 3, 5 and 1, 2, 4, 11 and 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1, 2, 3, 5. So a pretty chalky bracket would have done you pretty well this year.

19/32 then 12/16. Still just Kentucky down from the Elite 8.

Almost went 13/13 for R2 games where I had a live team but Baylor choked their comeback. Down 2 at the FT line shooting 2 with a 80% FT shooter. misses both. "whoops"

but then they really had no business getting back in that game to begin with lol

First round: 24 / 32
Second round: 14 / 16
Full Elite 8 intact buts its pretty much all chalk.

1v2; 1v2; 1v2; 1v3(purdue/creighton).

I am 10 points ahead of my wife, who knows nothing about basketball

Should've stuck with my original chalk bracket!

Man, maybe I should have made a men's bracket this year.

I've paid no attention to men's ball at all. Like the only thing I knew going into the tourney is that Purdue has a really tall guy who is good.

ya go my clemson

Picked the wrong team for Arizona to choke against

it was nice being briefly tied for first before uconn won (instead of lolburn)

i may have made a mistake putting arizona in the finals (granted having them over uconn was just to differentiate from the likelihood of uconn dominating pools but that still means i put them in the final four!)

I've got Arizona in the final four, but my bracket is realistically just going to come down to Creighton.

Alabama v Clemson
Such a classic matchup lol

Neither one has ever made a Final Four, so we'll get at least one first time ream.

Tennessee and Creighton have never made one either, so the winner will at least get a shot at it in the Elite Eight.

Rats!

NCSU making the Elite Eight it could have been Oakland University v_v

Houston and Creighton are the only teams alive that I had going to the Elite 8 I think in non-coinflip

Vols currently on an 18-0 run aw yeah

Duke being gifted a stress-free trip to the Elite 8. Painful to watch.

Houston has the same problem Tennessee has

They're not a great shooting team and some nights those shots just aren't falling

theawesomestevr posted...

Duke being gifted a stress-free trip to the Elite 8. Painful to watch.

Alabama vs Clemson
Duke vs NC State

Basically two games in the Elite 8 where I'm cheering for an asteroid to interfere

Houston looked fine until Shead got hurt in the 1st half. Duke then closed the half on a 13-6 run I think it was, and they have been in control despite it being a small lead since.

there goes bracket

Sounds like everyone should be rooting for Tennessee to win it all

I'm defaulting back to UConn for the sake of the Big East (never forgive it being broken up by football realignment) but Tennessee definitely second and I'd be good with them winning too!

As a Vols fan, I hate UConn instinctively

Mostly because of the women but it extrapolates out to the men too

Not a UConn fan, but they did save us from Dook winning two championships so they get a lifetime free pass

My poor, dead brackets

KCF0107 posted...

My poor, dead brackets

I went from 13/16 S16 to 2/8 E8...

UltimaterializerX posted...

I hated the Big East breaking up.

It was the best and then football had to ruin everything.

Yikes UConn opening the second half on a 22-0 run

uconn is pretty good

Made it to 25-0 before Illinois finally scored

Went almost 10 minutes of game time with no points

They really flushed the mouse to open the second half

Leonhart4 posted...

Made it to 25-0 before Illinois finally scored

30-0 actually

AllHeDoesIsWin posted...

30-0 actually

25-0 in the second half, I meant

They scored the last 5 of the first half for a 30-0 run total, yeah

Ah gotcha

Illinois has missed 21 layups

That feels impossible

Go Iowa! Fun game, Iowa really didn't struggle too much despite playing reckless and Caitlin not having a good three point shooting game. She had no issues driving to the basket or making assists though.

Speaking of assists. Caitlin officially becomes #3 on the all time assist records for Women. Insane when taking her scoring into account.

Next up is the finals rematch with LSU which they will probably lose again. LSU is just so much deeper and more skilled over all, in addition to the fact that they will dominate rebounds against an Iowa team that is really weak at the big where LSU is strong.

Leonhart4 posted...

Illinois has missed 21 layups

That's insane