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 »
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 »
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 »
It’s just past midnight Thursday, which means we have 10 days til Selection Sunday, a.k.a. College Basketball Christmas. But, much like with Christmas, the true spirit of Selection Sunday should last throughout the whole Bracketology Season! To wit: Ladies and gentlemen, behold, I have created a Giant BracketTM!! (Patent pending.) Actually, I’ve creataed two Giant BracketsTM, one for the NCAA… Read more »
I kid, but this is terrible: Someone has intentionally applied lethal amounts of herbicide to the soil around the famous Toomer’s Corner oaks on the campus of Auburn University, university officials said Wednesday. They say there is little chance they can save the trees, which are an icon of the campus. HROOM, HOOM!!! As B. Minich tweets, “That’s horrible. Where… Read more »
In case you missed it — and if your silly belief in “American Exceptionalism” extends to gridron football, and you’re bored by the most-played and most-watched sport on Earth, then you did — Wayne Rooney scored on an instant-classic bicycle kick in the 78th minute of Manchester United’s 2-1 “Manchester Derby” victory Saturday over rival Manchester City. It’s already being… Read more »
This won’t really mean much of anything to regular blog readers, but over on Twitter, the quirky little community of mid-major obsessives orbiting The Mid-Majority is having a blast trying to “find” Kyle Whelliston, “Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego”-style, based on hints he’s dropped while hiding from “The Knowledge” (of who won the Super Bowl) during his annual… Read more »