I’m on break from jury duty, so I have time to remind y’all to enter my FREE men’s and women’s NCAA Tournament pools! Just follow the links below, or in the “My NCAA & NIT pools” box at right. MEN’S POOL: [UPDATE: The polls are closed! Good luck, everyone!] WOMEN’S POOL: Regular Bracket | Mascot Bracket (To clarify about the… Read more »
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 »
Oregon Ducks QB Jeremiah Masoli has been suspended by head coach Chip Kelly for the 2010 season following his guilty plea of second degree burglary. Masoli and former Ducks WR Garrett Embry stole two laptops and a guitar from a campus fraternity. Embry had been kicked off the team prior to the theft. Each faces 12 months of probation, 140… 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 »
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 »
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 »
After breaking their own NCAA record with consecutive win #71 by — ho-hum — beating the #6 team in the country by 15 points*, the Huskies have just seven games left on their road to 78 straight and another national title. Then comes the real drama, maybe: can Geno beat John? Auriemma > Wooden? The Sorcerer of Storrs bests the… Read more »