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:

  1. 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

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  2. 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

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  3. Justin D.

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

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

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