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Tennessee - 3
Texas Tech - 3
Wisconsin - 3
Purdue - 3
Arkansas - 4
UCLA - 4
Iowa - 5
S Dakota St - 13

 

Tie - UCLA

 

Arizona - 1

Tennessee - 3

Texas Tech - 3

UCLA - 4

Providence - 4

Texas - 6

USC - 7

Memphis - 9

 

Tie - Tennessee

Texas Tech

Villanova

Houston

Kentucky

Providence

UCLA

U Conn

Southern Cal

tie breaker - Texas Tech

Gonzaga (1)

Houston (5)

Tennessee (3)

Iowa State (11)

Saint Mary’s (5)

Murray State (7)

Alabama (6)

Virginia Tech (11)

 

Tie Breaker - Arkansas (4)

Emmett's Picks (my son)

Michigan
Iowa State
Texas Tech
Loyola 
Purdue
Gonzaga
Illinois
South Dakota State

Tiebreaker - Texas Tech

4 hours ago, Not a cat said:

UConn 5

UCLA 4

Iowa 5

Lsu 6

Houston 5

San Francisco 10

Arkansas 4

St Mary's 5

 

Tie- Houston 5

For some reason I read the tiebreaker as having to be an entirely new 9th team. Which appears to be wrong.  Removing wiscy and adding Houston as my tiebreaker.

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Tennessee 3

Purdue 3

UConn 5

St Mary's 5

Michigan State 7

Davidson 10

Loyola 10

Miami 10

Tiebreaker: Wisconsin 3

Loyola Chicago - 10
Gonzaga - 1
Kansas - 1
Baylor - 1
Arizona - 1
Michigan - 11
South Dakota State - 13
Texas Tech - 3

Tie Breaker - Gonzaga

Connecticut 5

Wisconsin 3

Purdue 3

UCLA 4

Texas Tech 3

Iowa 5

Virginia Tech 11

Iowa State 11

The tiebreaker is Iowa.

Tech Texas --3

Miami--10

UCLA--4

Purdue--3

Arizona-1

Gonzaga--1

Iowa--5

Villanova--2

 

Tie Breaker--Purdue

 

Auburn 2
Texas Tech 3
UCLA 4
Houston 5
Iowa 5
SDSU 8
Memphis 9
Michigan 11

Tie Breaker - UCLA

@Wulaw Horn - 1.) very cool of you to do this. 2.) Is this a winner take all deal, or will it pay several spots? Its a free contest, so I aint complaining either way, just curious. 

Knoxtnhorn's Entry

Kentucky (2)

UCLA (4)

Baylor (1)

USC (7)

Houston (5)

Tennessee (3)

Gonzaga (1)

Iowa (5)

Tiebreaker: Iowa

For some reason I read the tiebreaker as having to be an entirely new 9th team. Which appears to be wrong.  Removing wiscy and adding Houston as my tiebreaker.
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Don't worry....Bartles did it directly below this post lmao....but yeah i initially read it as any team....then saw wulaws picks and thought I was wrong and it had to be one from the 8 you select. Now i see people doing it both ways so no clue here either

Mrs. Knoxtnhorn's Entry

Tennessee

Memphis

Houston

UCLA

Iowa

Purdue

Providence

Villanova

Tiebreaker: Tennessee

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49 minutes ago, Blotto said:

Auburn 2
Texas Tech 3
UCLA 4
Houston 5
Iowa 5
SDSU 8
Memphis 9
Michigan 11

Tie Breaker - UCLA

@Wulaw Horn - 1.) very cool of you to do this. 2.) Is this a winner take all deal, or will it pay several spots? Its a free contest, so I aint complaining either way, just curious. 

Don’t know yet. Will figure that out once entries are closed and let everyone know then. I don’t even know how much prize money will be in other than if we get to 100 entries we will give away $1000. 
If there’s 100 entries I imagine we’d pay multiple places. Gold silver and bronze probably. 

Iowa (tiebreaker)
Houston
UCLA
LSU
Michigan
San Francisco
Tennessee
Loyola-Chicago

Edited by Huckleberry

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1 hour ago, Scraps said:

Don't worry....Bartles did it directly below this post lmao....but yeah i initially read it as any team....then saw wulaws picks and thought I was wrong and it had to be one from the 8 you select. Now i see people doing it both ways so no clue here either

It was supposed to be one of your 8 teams, but honestly I don’t care. It’s unlikely to come into play. 

Yeah theoretically the ones who didn’t follow the guideline disadvantaged themselves slightly by having their tiebreaker not be one of their 8 favorites.

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18 minutes ago, TXSooner518 said:

Yeah theoretically the ones who didn’t follow the guideline disadvantaged themselves slightly by having their tiebreaker not be one of their 8 favorites.

That’s what I thought when I said- fuck it- why not? 

Mine:

Iowa 5

UCLA 4

Rutgers/ND 11

USC 7

Houston 5

Va Tech 11

Colorado St 6

New Mexico St 12 

Tiebreaker: Iowa 

 

Doomlet:

New Mexico St 12

Montana St 14

UCLA 4

San Francisco 10

Chattanooga 13

Loyola 10

Richmond 12

Miami 10

Tiebreaker UCLA 

 

Thanks!!! 

Loyola Chi 10  (tie breaker)

Davidson 10

Chatta 13

Rutg/ND 11

UCLA 4

San Fran 10

Kentucky 2

Colorado St 6

I know nothing about college basketball, but I'll play.

UCLA - 4

Texas Tech - 3

Houston - 5

Ohio State - 7

Texas - 5

LSU - 6

Baylor - 1

Duke - 3

Tie breaker - Ohio State

I see people saying Texas is a 6 seed, but the page I looked at for the seeding/brackets says Texas is a 5 seed:

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2954122-ncaa-bracketology-2022-real-time-seed-and-region-projections-for-all-68-teams

If the seeds/brackets I used were incorrect, I guess my entry might be FUBAR.

13 hours ago, Bartles said:

Tennessee 3

Purdue 3

UConn 5

St Mary's 5

Michigan State 7

Davidson 10

Loyola 10

Miami 10

Tiebreaker: Wisconsin 3

I misunderstood the tiebreaker, sorry...switch it to St Mary's for me




I know nothing about college basketball, but I'll play.
UCLA - 4
Texas Tech - 3
Houston - 5
Ohio State - 7
Texas - 5
LSU - 6
Baylor - 1
Duke - 3
Tie breaker - Ohio State
I see people saying Texas is a 6 seed, but the page I looked at for the seeding/brackets says Texas is a 5 seed:
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2954122-ncaa-bracketology-2022-real-time-seed-and-region-projections-for-all-68-teams
If the seeds/brackets I used were incorrect, I guess my entry might be FUBAR.


Lol that is a wack ass bracketology/projections.....all fucked up lol the matchups/seeding aren't right. Just go to espn and look at the bracket

Texas - 6

Texas Tech - 3

Tennessee - 3

Houston - 5

UCLA - 4

Arkansas - 4

Iowa - 5

San Francisco - 10

tiebreaker - Arkansas

28 minutes ago, Scraps said:

Lol that is a wack ass bracketology/projections.....all fucked up lol the matchups/seeding aren't right. Just go to espn and look at the bracket

 

Well shit.  OK.  Scratch that last entry as it's FUBAR.

Using this bracket page:  http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/tournament/bracket

Conn - 5

TTU - 3

UCLA - 4

Texas - 6

Houston - 5

OSU - 7

Iowa - 5

LSU - 6

Tiebreaker - LSU

Gonzaga (1)
Houston (5)
Auburn (2)
Kentucky (2)
Saint Mary’s (5)
Loyola Chicago (10)
Alabama (6)
Iowa (5)
 
Tie Breaker - Houston (5)

Illinois (4)

Purdue (3)

UCLA (4)

Iowa (5)(Tiebreaker)

Michigan (11)

Iowa St (11)

South Dakota St (13)

San Diego St. (8)

 

Texas Tech (3)

Michigan State (7)

Creighton (9) **tiebreak**

Miami (10)

Purdue (3)

UCLA (4)

Villanova (2)

Arizona (1)

Submitting my entry:

UCLA - 4
Iowa - 5 (tie breaker)
Texas Tech - 3
Houston - 5
Tennessee - 3
Iowa St - 11
South Dakota St - 13
Arizona - 1

Also, like @Knoxtnhorn I'll be submitting another few brackets for my 8 kids, 3 moms, and a few stray cats in the neighborhood. 

Houston  - 5

Arizona - 1

Tennessee - 3 (Tiebreaker)

Illinois  - 4

Notre Dame - 11

Kansas - 1

Kentucky - 2

Colorado State - 6

Edited by ouflak

47 minutes ago, Serak The Preparer said:

Submitting my entry:

UCLA - 4
Iowa - 5 (tie breaker)
Texas Tech - 3
Houston - 5
Tennessee - 3
Iowa St - 11
South Dakota St - 13
Arizona - 1

Also, like @Knoxtnhorn I'll be submitting another few brackets for my 8 kids, 3 moms, and a few stray cats in the neighborhood. 

Damn.  I didn't think about the cats.

In my defense, my wife and son do pay and submit entries to all Surly contests.

  • Popular Post

Because I am a giant dork and like playing with spreadsheets, I've made a public Google Sheets doc to simplify entry and result monitoring. I believe I have everyone's entry entered, at least as of this post, with two caveats:

1) I only am tracking by user name, so for those users who have submitted multiple brackets they are just listed under a single user name. If that user wins, up to them to allocate correctly.

2) I didn't bother tracking tie-breaker. In case that is relevant @Wulaw Horn or @Scipio can determine that by just looking at this thread.

Here is a link to the document: Surly 2022 March Madness - Free Money Contest

Right now the only fields that should be editable are the username and teams fields (columns B and C on the "Enter Picks Here" tab - please feel free to double-check that there was no error in entry. I had to clean the data some to make sure team names were consistent and it's always possible an error crept in. Also ignore the results that are already in - that was just for testing purposes, I'll clear that Thursday morning. At that point I'll also lock down the user entry fields. @Wulaw Horn can then easily post the top performing teams as well as teams with most potential points.

Edited by Serak The Preparer

Villanova-2

UCLA-4

UConn-5

Houston-5 

Colorado State-6

USC-7 (tiebreaker)

Davidson-10

South Dakota State-13

Edited by IPoopOnWhoop

Jamelaws121

Memphis (9)

UNC(8)

LSU (6)

San Fran (10)

Tenn (3)

UCLA(4)

Texas Tech (3)

Gonz (1)

 

Tiebreak Gonzaga

Edited by Jameslaw121

Mrs Jameslaw

Ark (4)

Texas Tech (3)

UCLA (4)

Purdue (3)

Prov (4)

Wisc (3)

Tenn (3)

Ill (4)

Tiebreak - Tenn (3)

 

If you're looking for winners, I've got them right here:

3-Texas Tech
4-UCLA
11-Virginia Tech
5-Houston
3-Tennessee
5-Iowa*
6-LSU
11-Michigan

*tiebreaker

Texas tech 

UCLA

Iowa

michigan

gonzaga

Notre Dame

Kentucky

Perdue

Tie breaker Gonzaga 

texas tech - 3 

ucla - 4 

iowa - 5

michigan state - 7 

usc - 7 

loyola chicago - 10

iowa state - 11

south dakota state - 13

 

tiebreaker - ucla

Gonzaga - 1

Kentucky - 2

Texas Tech - 3

UCLA - 4

Houston - 5

Michigan - 11

South Dakota State - 13

Vermont - 13

Tiebreaker - Kentucky 

5 Houston

6 Texas

9 Creighton

7 USC

5 Iowa

2 Villanova

4 UCLA

2 Kentucky 

 

Tiebreaker - Houston 

13 Vermont
12 Indiana
12 New Mexico State
9 Creighton
4 Providence
10 Miami (Fla.)
11 Notre Dame
7 Ohio State

 

Tiebreaker Miami

Ucla - 4
Texas tech - 3
S Dakota St - 13
Tennessee - 3
Iowa - 5 (Tiebreaker)
Texas - 6
Houston - 5
Iowa state - 11

All entries are now in as of this post. We have 58 entries so far - come on people, I want some of @Wulaw Horn's filthy mortgage money, let's pump that to 100!

Note: there are three teams that are on least half of all of the brackets submitted so far. There are also three teams that are on exactly one submitted bracket. Pickers of TCU, Duke, and Montana St - feel proud of yourselves for bucking the trend.

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We are paying money either way, just 100 entries get us to the magical $1,000. 

SDSU - 10

Iowa St - 11

UCLA - 4

UConn - 5 (tie breaker)

Memphis - 9

St. Mary's - 5

Miami - 10

Marquette - 9

Edited by Jerry Callo

Gonzaga 1

Texas Tech 3

UNC 8

Houston 5

Tennessee 3

Loyola 10

Iowa 5 - TB

USC 7

Thanks for doing this.

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