Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Sweet 16 (2008)

The NCAA tourney starts the day after tomorrow and people everywhere are filling out their brackets.

If you'd like to do something a little different, try my "Sweet 16" game we've been playing the last few years. Instead of just filling out a bracket, we pick the best sixteen teams in the tournament and rank them best to worst. The best team will get 16 points for each win, the second team will get 15 points and so on until you get to the 16th team which gets one point per win. If you put them in the correct order, your maximum score would be 477 points.

Last year Zach B. won with 434 points. He had Florida and Ohio St. in his top four and each of the Final Four teams in his top six. Let's see you do that again, Zach!

If you want to play along, just post your list of of sixteen, in order, in the comments section and I'll keep a running tally as we go along. The cutoff is Thursday morning.

Oh, and what does the winner get? The satisfaction of a job well done.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Chad W. ~ I know this looks strange to you KU peeps, however; I see the future!! Just so we're clear on the order of this I have G-Town winning it all.

Sweet 16:

16.) Georgetown
15.) Stanford
14.) North Carolina
13.) UCLA
12.) Kansas
11.) Tennessee
10.) Pittsburgh
9.) Duke
8.) Texas
7.) Louisville
6.) Wisconsin
5.) Notre Dame
4.) Baylor
3.) Drake
2.) Oregon
1.) Clemson

WINNING BRACKET!!!!

~ CHAD

Anonymous said...

Georgetown v. Stanford, huh? Looks like Chad forgot it wasn't the 1990's.

This is what a real sweet 16 looks like (with K-State thrown in for the homer in me, of course)

UCLA
Kansas
North Carolina
Memphis
Texas
Tennessee
Georgetown
Xavier
Duke
Pittsburgh
Louisville
Drake
Notre Dame
Kansas State
Vanderbilt
Stanford

Anonymous said...

Justin D.

UNC
UCLA
KU
Texas
Louisville
Memphis
Tennessee
Pitt
Georgetown
Duke
Stanford
Xavier
Wisconsin
Clemson
Notre Dame
UConn

Thumper said...

Justin, no K-State in your sweet 16? How could you?