Baylor’s win over Duke has Lauren Taylor of Smyrna, GA on the verge of clinching the 13th annual Living Room Times women’s NCAA pool. Taylor will clinch tonight if Stanford beats Xavier. If the Cardinal lose, she will clinch when… er, if… UConn beats Florida State tomorrow.
With the Final Four set, the 15th annual Living Room Times men’s NCAA Pool is down to a two-person race: either Matt Wiser or Sharon Greggs will win the championship. As the what-if scenarios show, Greggs will prevail if West Virginia either wins the national title or loses to Butler in the title game. Wiser will prevail in all other… Read more »
With upsets decimating countless brackets and making it impossible for many contestants to gain additional points, the 15th annual Living Room Times men’s NCAA pool has just three contestants still mathematically alive to win: Sharon Greggs, Matt Wiser and Casey Zak. And in Casey’s case, the best he can do is tie Greggs, becoming co-champions of the pool. Here is… Read more »
Out of 182 contestants in the 15th annual Living Room Times NCAA men’s pool, only five picked Butler to reach the Final Four. One of those five, Casey Zak, now leads the pool thanks to the Bulldogs’ victory. The others are Ryan Dalidowitz (4th place), Jessica Cowans (5th), Monique Wiard (T-14th) and Bob Lutts (29th). But none of those contestants… Read more »
Heeeere we go again. My tweets, and any comments thereon, will appear in the first window below. Tweets from everyone on my college basketball list will appear in the second window below. You can join the dialogue either by clicking “Make a comment” on the top window, or by tweeting something @brendanloy, or by emailing 13909@scribblelive.com. GOOO BUTLER!!! BEEEEAT KANSAS… Read more »
In 2005, basketball writer extraordinare Kyle Whelliston (seen at left with yours truly at the 2007 BracketBusters game at Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse) caught ESPN’s eye with his 100 Games Project on his blog, The Mid-Majority. Impressed, the Worldwide Leader hired Kyle to be a freelance mid-major correspondent. Truth be told, it was always an odd pairing: Kyle is both an… Read more »
Yet again, instead of letting tweets take over my blog, I’m going to temporarily confine them here. But I’m doing it a little bit differently this time. My tweets, and any comments thereon, will appear in the first window below. Tweets from everyone on my college basketball list will appear in the second window below.
Again, instead of letting tweets take over my blog, I’m going to temporarily confine them to the window below — and not just my tweets, but tweets from everyone on my college basketball list. Go Mid-Majors! Beat Other Guys! Also — with apologies to La Rev and the gang, and a shout-out to David K. — Go Washington! Beat ‘Eers!… Read more »
With apologies to major-conference Cinderella Washington and mid-major non-Cinderellas Butler and Xavier, all of whom try tonight to pull off an upset and move within a game of an unlikely Final Four appearance (at home in Indy, in Butler’s case), this evening’s most fascinating Sweet 16 matchup has got to be Kentucky vs. Cornell. I say this not just because… Read more »
Heading into the NIT Final Four, Josh Rubin still leads the Living Room Times NIT Pool — but he is mathematically eliminated from winning it. Regardless of what happens at Madison Square Garden next week, someone will pass Rubin in the pool standings. Rubin, Greg Kagan and Dan Port were knocked out of contention Wednesday when Rhode Island beat Virginia… Read more »