The Kings March Madness Tournament

Once again I am doing a Yahoo March Madness Tournament. If you would like to join the link is:

http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com

Group ID#: 61181

Or pm me for an invite!

Watching the selection show now.  My sentimental pick is Michigan.  Great story, coming from having their plane slide off the runway en route to the Big 10 tournament to winning the tournament.

I've got another sentimental favorite.  Middle Tennessee State University.  Back in the mid 80s, I used to live in Murfreesboro, TN where MTSU is located; I cut through their campus all the time as a shortcut to get to work.  I had a Trans Am at the time and I also "cruised" the campus; also saw concerts by Styx and Elton John there.  So I have a soft spot in my heart for MTSU.

Dang.  My Vanderbilt Commodores face Northwestern in the first round.  That sucks because I wanted to root for Northwestern but now I can't.  Back in the 80s at the same time I was cruising MTSU, I was listening to Vandy's radio station during a second shift.  I learned about a whole lot of alternative bands from them, two of which were Swimming Pool Qs and Jason and the Scorchers who I also saw for free during Vandy's spring concert series.

I didn't even think of it until ESPN mentioned it but this east coast snowstorm could wreak havoc on the tournament.

tohostudios wrote:

I didn't even think of it until ESPN mentioned it but this east coast snowstorm could wreak havoc on the tournament.

yeah - not a nice curveball...

tohostudios wrote:

Watching the selection show now.  My sentimental pick is Michigan.  Great story, coming from having their plane slide off the runway en route to the Big 10 tournament to winning the tournament.

I never want to minimize anything regarding a scary moment on board a plane, but way too many of those on ESPN keep using term plane crash, when talking about this event. There was no crash! I just heard Seth Greenberg say it earlier this morning. They over shot the runway, which by all accounts would be very scary, but this isn't even remotely close to what Butler experienced late in December.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/18376358/butler-bulldogs-team-plane-loses-cabin-pressure-coach-says-was-scary-had-guys-crying

Wow, some people have been calling it a "crash"?  I haven't heard that.  Yeah it was in no way a crash.

Guess it's just you and me King.

yeah low turnout this year...

For some reason I'm not really into it as much this year either.  I didn't even start watching the games today until about 3pm.

I've watched so little this year I felt out of it. I did one for work and that's it.

I actually watched more of the conference tourneys this year than ever before so maybe I burned myself out on college basketball.  I've also got some "life stuff" going on now too and that detracts from my ability to enjoy the games a bit.

Well I'm officially busted.  Wisconsin beat Villanova.  I should have known better than to go with the same team that won last year.

Dark Horseman wrote:

I've watched so little this year I felt out of it. I did one for work and that's it.

Same here.

tohostudios wrote:

Well I'm officially busted.  Wisconsin beat Villanova.  I should have known better than to go with the same team that won last year.

My work bracket is busted too. Thanks Villanova!

If MTSU loses to Butler I'll be even less interested.  They're really the only school I'm vested in.  I hate Notre Dame but they lost today so that interest is gone.  Vandy went out in round 1.  So there's really nobody left I feel strongly about one way or the other.

My bracket is dead so go Michigan.

Yeah I'm pulling for Michigan too.

Holy crap!  On the women's side, Baylor obliterated Texas Southern 119 - 30!   Texas Southern had a whopping total of 13 points at halftime. 

Why even have the women's tournament anyway?  Just hand the title to UConn again.

I'm actually doing well in my tournament. 31-9 so far, but today will tell the story.

Wow, that's doing very well. Must've picked some upsets.

tohostudios wrote:

Holy crap!  On the women's side, Baylor obliterated Texas Southern 119 - 30!   Texas Southern had a whopping total of 13 points at halftime. 

Why even have the women's tournament anyway?  Just hand the title to UConn again.

Ain't that the truth!

nevermore wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

Holy crap!  On the women's side, Baylor obliterated Texas Southern 119 - 30!   Texas Southern had a whopping total of 13 points at halftime. 

Why even have the women's tournament anyway?  Just hand the title to UConn again.

Ain't that the truth!

It really is remarkable.  The Lady Huskies won their 108th straight game yesterday.  108!!!!  And I just saw this on ESPN:

"UConn recruit Megan Walker named Gatorade national player of the year."

So next year they get the best high school player in the country.

i am busted with Villanova going down. Now the media are saying its Duke's fault LOL!