Sweet 16 (2009)

The NCAA tourney starts Thursday (play-in games don't count) and people everywhere are filling out their brackets.

But instead of filling out a bracket, try my "Sweet 16" game we've been playing the last few years. Instead of predicting sixty-some games, 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.

I won last year with 423 points (Thanks KU). I had correctly had KU, Memphis, UNC, and UCLA in my top four. The year before I came in last place. Justin D. has two years in a row in second place, so we'll see how he does.

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.