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03-17-2008, 02:46 PM
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03-17-2008, 03:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: berkeley, ca | | | i'm in, even though i know far less this year than usual. |
03-17-2008, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Brad Barker  i'm in, even though i know far less this year than usual. | Didn't you setup the bracket last year? I've never set one up. |
03-17-2008, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by abark000 Didn't you setup the bracket last year? I've never set one up. | i think i did. forgot about that. 
just go to espn.com and click around. that's how i did it. |
03-17-2008, 04:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Brad Barker i think i did. forgot about that.
just go to espn.com and click around. that's how i did it. | Okay. I think I set it up correctly.
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03-17-2008, 04:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: berkeley, ca | | alright, submitting my bracket. i've got stanford going down to cornell in the first round, purely out of spite.  |
03-17-2008, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Brad Barker alright, submitting my bracket. i've got stanford going down to cornell in the first round, purely out of spite. | Why?
I've got Kansas beating Pitt in one of my brackets and UCLA beating UNLV in the other. I mainly went with high seeds and the teams the few teams I like. Like Georgetown going to the elite 8. Or Mississippi State beating Memphis in the second round. |
03-18-2008, 03:04 PM
|  | Veteran Dispenser | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Newton, Mass | | | The mighty Dangnewt Bracket of Doom has been submitted.
I really didn't follow college hoops too closely this year. I have my father-in-law's alma mater, Marquette going a little better than their seeding. Lest the old traditions fail, I have my grad school, UNC, taking the title.
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03-18-2008, 03:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | I just wanna see my WSU Cougars beat Winthrop (all together....WHO?) this Thursday, then win the follow-up. I got mega-lucky and they're traveling 1100 miles to their first games - in Denver, 60 miles from here!!!!
Will I be there on Thursday??? OH, yeah!!!!!!! 
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03-18-2008, 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by abark000 Why? | cornell accepted me but stanford didn't. |
03-18-2008, 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Brad Barker cornell accepted me but stanford didn't. | Not only that, the Ivy League has been waiting for the opportunity to smite the cheeky upstart Stanfordians who had the nerve to horn in on our historic claim to mascots (and colleges!) of color - Crimson, Big Green, Brown. That train had long left the station by the time Stanford was founded. Cornell will show them who the real Big Red is.
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03-18-2008, 05:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Here's the word from a PAC-10 guy - EVERYONE better watch out for Stanford. The Lopez brothers are 7' monsters. Our (Washington State's) 6'11", 275-pound center couldn't even move them!
Stanford has an outstanding defense and a dangerous offense. In the word of our fearless, peerless, lame duck leader, "Don't misunderestimate them."
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03-18-2008, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by dangnewt Not only that, the Ivy League has been waiting for the opportunity to smite the cheeky upstart Stanfordians who had the nerve to horn in on our historic claim to mascots (and colleges!) of color - Crimson, Big Green, Brown. That train had long left the station by the time Stanford was founded. Cornell will show them who the real Big Red is. | dartmouth used to be "the indians." ...so was stanford, for a long period.
is brown's mascot really "brown"? "the brown browns."  
oh, it's the bears. that's a bit better. |
03-19-2008, 04:37 PM
| | Veteran Dispenser | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Newton, Mass | | | Correct, both teams officially stopped using the Indian mascot in the '70's. However, Dartmouth had used Green dating back to the mid-1800's while Stanford adopted Cardinal after dropping Indians.
Who would have thunk that Dartmouth and Stanford have exactly the same number of Final Four appearances in basketball - 2.
They actually beat us for the national championship in 1942. Another reason to root for Cornell.
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03-19-2008, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by dangnewt Correct, both teams officially stopped using the Indian mascot in the '70's. However, Dartmouth had used Green dating back to the mid-1800's while Stanford adopted Cardinal after dropping Indians.
Who would have thunk that Dartmouth and Stanford have exactly the same number of Final Four appearances in basketball - 2.
They actually beat us for the national championship in 1942. Another reason to root for Cornell. | dartmouth had/has a basketball team?  
all i know bout indian/big green athletics is that the football team won the ivy league championship at least one season back when my dad was on the team, and that dartmouth football is a long way from winning another ivy league championship.
florida plays san diego state in the NIT first round tonight. yay? |
03-20-2008, 09:01 AM
| | Veteran Dispenser | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Newton, Mass | | | Upsets du jour
Three of my upset specials are going today
# 12 Temple over Michigan State
# 11 Baylor over Purdue
# 10 Arizona over West Virginia (although 10s over 7s is not much of a stretch)
We'll see if my usual strategy of picking schools that either I or my friends or relatives or my friend's kids attended will work this time.
Baylor - friend's kid
Wisconsin - sister in law
Marquette - father in law
Louisville and Clemson - friend who went undergrad and grad respectively
Kent St - former co-worker
Arkansas - brother-in-law lives there
Memphis - great food and music
Xavier - since I like 3 Musketeers (the candy bar), I gotta love 14 Musketeers (the hoop team)
UConn - only New England team
I resisted San Diego even though a good friend's kid goes there and Cornell which is where a couple of close friends attended. Friendship only goes so far when your school is seeded 13 or 14. 
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03-20-2008, 04:21 PM
| | Veteran Dispenser | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Newton, Mass | | | Not a good first day so far.
4 for 7.
Two upset picks (Baylor and Temple) didn't happen and my 8-9 pick Kent State got spanked badly.
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03-20-2008, 08:51 PM
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Originally Posted by dangnewt Not a good first day so far.
4 for 7.
Two upset picks (Baylor and Temple) didn't happen and my 8-9 pick Kent State got spanked badly. | My serious picks are doing great so far. My joke bracket is going up in flames. Something about having Mississippi State going to the Final Four will do that. |
03-20-2008, 09:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Millcreek Township, UT | | Dang... I was rooting hard for Belmont.
On a positive note, BYU (whom I hate with a passion) lost to A&M, and my K-State upset pick was correct. 
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03-21-2008, 05:36 AM
|  | M E T S ... Mets, Mets, Mets! | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NC. Residential Tourist | | I'm rooting for my boys...UK (GO CATS!!!)... however I don't see them making it past Marquette in the first round. 
To me it looks like it'll be UNC vs. Memphis in the final... IF they both make it throught the top seed upset time. 
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