With apologies to Kyle Whelliston, who thinks bracket contests are eeeeeevil, my annual “moneyless” pool tradition continues: all three FREE Living Room Times basketball pools are officially underway. Fill out your brackets now! • NIT Pool: [UPDATE: Polls are now closed!] • Men’s NCAA Pool: [UPDATE: Polls are now closed!] • Women’s NCAA Pool: Regular Bracket | Mascot Bracket Deadline… Read more »
My 15th annual FREE, “moneyless” Living Room Times basketball pools are underway: You can enter the Men’s NCAA Pool now (deadline: Thursday at noon Eastern Time) and also enter the NIT Pool now (deadline: Tuesday at 7pm EST). The Women’s NCAA Pool will start tomorrow evening. (Here is a brief pool history overview.) Meanwhile, I’m extending my pool logo design… Read more »
Here’s my annual Bubble Scoresheet (Word, PDF). If you print it out and check the teams off as they’re announced during the Selection Show, you’ll realize more quickly than other folks when the bubble is officially “tapped out” and no more bids are available. As usual, my “PROBABLY IN” category includes some teams that are generally thought of as “locks,”… Read more »
On Sunday evening, the 15th annual Living Room Times NCAA Pools will get underway. Thanks to the launch of this blog — namesake of the newspaper that originally sponsored the pools from 1996-1999 — the pools’ name will make sense again to casual readers! And, for the first time, the NIT Pool (now in its 6th year) will gain the… Read more »
It’s going to be a very busy weekend, what with conference-tournament craziness all weekend, plus the St. Patrick’s Day parade Saturday morning, a Great Big Sea concert Saturday evening, and of course, the Selection Show and the start of the 15th Annual Living Room Times NCAA Pools on Sunday. Meanwhile, Loyacita and Loyette are both a bit sick, so Becky’s… Read more »
This weekend, all of my tweets, links, etc., will appear in the ScribbleLive window below. This post will stay on top of the page. See below it for any other new content. There will be a Selection Show Live Chat here on Sunday, starting around 3:45 PM Mountain Time. Stay tuned! (For now, you can comment in the usual way,… Read more »
If “March Madness” hadn’t officially arrived yet, it definitely made its presence felt yesterday. ‘Twas a crazy day of hoops, capped off by a buzzer-beating bank-shot 3 for West Virginia, beating Cincinnati and ending the Bearcats’ longshot NCAA hopes: The day’s theme was bubble teams doing their damndest to play themselves out of the conversation, as SI’s Andy Glockner explains:… Read more »
With the exception of the green line in back, all of this was drawn by Loyette (using the Scribble app on my new iPod touch). She seems to think it’s pretty cool. 🙂 P.S. Can you believe all the bubble teams losing today? Crazy!
I’m typing & publishing this post on the WordPress app on my new iPod touch, which I got for free by signing up for a bank account with direct deposit. So happy. 🙂
Schlabach says there are currently six available bubble spots for the 17 teams he lists as having “work left to do,” namely, in no particular order: Georgia Tech, Seton Hall, South Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Washington, Arizona State, Florida, Mississippi, Mississippi State, San Diego State, Rhode Island, Dayton, Saint Louis, Utah State, UAB and Memphis. (Notre Dame, Cal and UNLV are… Read more »