Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Sweet 16

It's almost time for the NCAA tourney to begin and people everywhere are filling out their brackets.

If you'd like to do something a little different, try the "Sweet 16" game we play each year. 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.

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.

8 comments:

  1. Chad wrote:

    Below you will find the winning sixteen:

    1. Kansas
    2. North Carolina
    3. Florida
    4. Texas A&M
    5. Notre Dame
    6. Ohio State
    7. Georgetown
    8. Pittsburgh
    9. UCLA
    10. Texas
    11. Wisconsin
    12. Memphis
    13. Washington State
    14. Maryland
    15. Tennessee
    16. Southern Illinois

    Thanks,

    Chad

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  2. Jared . . . Here are my picks. Dad

    1. Kansas
    2. North Carolina
    3. Texas
    4. Georgetown
    5. Texas A&M
    6. Florida
    7. Ohio State
    8. Wisconsin
    9. UCLA
    10. Duke
    11. Memphis
    12. Oregon
    13. Butler
    14. Pittsburg
    15. Southern Illinois
    16. Washington State

    Thanks! Dad

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  3. 1. Kansas
    2. Georgetown
    3. Florida
    4. Texas A&M
    5. UCLA
    6. Texas
    7. Ohio St.
    8. North Carolina
    9. Wisconsin
    10. Pittsburgh
    11. S. Illinois
    12. Washington St.
    13. Creighton
    14. Old Dominion
    15. Long Beach St.

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  4. 16. Oregon
    Forgot one....sorry.

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  5. 1.Kansas
    2.UNC
    3.Florida
    4.Georgetown
    5.Ohio State
    6.Texas A&M
    7.UCLA
    8.Wisconsin
    9.Memphis
    10.Texas
    11.Pitt
    12.Tennessee
    13.Washington State
    14.Maryland
    15.Southern Illinois
    16.Oregon

    17. KSU...NIT counts right?

    DaPrato

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  6. I already emailed mine to you, but just so everyone else can know how much they're losing by, I'll post it here:

    Kansas
    North Carolina
    Wisconsin (NICE TOP 3, HUH?)
    Ohio State

    Texas A&M
    Texas
    Florida
    Memphis

    Pittsburgh
    UCLA
    Georgetown
    Tennessee

    Wash.State
    So. Illinois
    Maryland
    Oregon

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  7. LONG BEACH STATE?? Wow, Bryan, you must know somebody there...

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  8. Well, thankfully no one has KS and UNC in their TOP 2!!

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