Before it gets completely lost and forgotten in the impending insanity of Selection Sunday, the Big Dance and the Living Room Times NCAA & NIT Pools, here’s the archive of my entire liveblog (via Twitter) of the Big Sky championship game Wednesday night. It was a truly epic experience — I was sitting just a few feet in front of… Read more »
First things first: you can now “like” the 16th annual Living Room Times NCAA & NIT Pools on Facebook. Do that now, and you’ll automatically get an update Sunday night when the pools are ready to go. Secondly… after much deliberation and some excellent analysis by blog readers, I’ve decided to abandon the “upset points” idea, and stick with a… Read more »
When I set up the first Living Room Times NCAA Pool in 1996, I was using a primitive piece of DOS software (yes, DOS!) that assigned, by default, point values through the tournament’s six rounds in a 5-7-10-15-20-25 fashion. I’m not sure if this was customizable, but even if it was, I gave it zero thought. I’d never run an… Read more »
At tonight’s Big Sky title game, courtesy of MockSession: Here’s the photo I took as that was happening: UPDATE: Northern Colorado is going dancing! And I was there to see it! Indeed, much like Kyle and Bally did at Long Island tonight, DU Bally and I rushed the floor with the UNC students: For more photos and video, see my… Read more »
Last night, the league I’ve been following all season (because of my Pioneer Pulse blog), the Sun Belt, provided us with what The Mid-Majority calls the “first eternal highlight reel moment” of this Championship Fortnight: a game-winning #superhoop by Arkansas-Little Rock’s Solomon Bozeman, showing why he was the conference’s player of the year: The entire ending of the game, particularly… Read more »
If the blog looks all screwy this morning, with a big blank space in between the blog content and a tiny right sidebar, view my stylesheet and hit reload on your browser, then come back to this page and again click reload. That should fix it. What I’ve done is create a massive right sidebar for ScribbleLive-fueled live coverage (largely… Read more »
With five days till Selection Sunday, we’re getting closer and closer to the 16th annual Living Room Times basketball pools — NCAA men’s, NCAA women’s and NIT. And I can’t wait!! This year, the men’s NCAA pool will have a newly compressed entry deadline, thanks to the First Four a.k.a. #quadPIG, which can no longer be ignored, as the #PIG… Read more »
The Space Shuttle Discovery is wrapping up its final mission, and this morning the crew was awakened by none other than William Shatner, putting a new twist on the “Star Trek” opening-theme voiceover: When I heard this on CNN, it gave me goose bumps. I kid you not. (NERD!!!)
I’ve been doing most of my March Madness talk on Twitter, but with less an a week till Selection Sunday, it’s high time for a bubble overview. Here’s where things stand right now, per a slightly tweaked version of Andy Glockner‘s breakdown: LOCKS: Arizona, BYU, Cincinnati, Duke, Florida, Georgetown, Kansas, Kansas State, Kentucky, Louisville, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Ohio State,… Read more »
Just over a month ago now, DU Bally and I set out on an Excellent Adventure, an odyssey of open-road travel and (barely) above-the-Red Line basketball that took us to two separate Mountain West games, involving two Top Ten teams, in two different states, in the space of less than 3 1/2 hours. It was the most awesome hoops-related thing… Read more »