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[CMJ]

UCLA vs Florida should be a great game on Thursday.

[UNTFan23]

UCLA vs Florida should be a great game on Thursday.

Friday will be the battle for Kentucky.

[greenminer]

Holy crap Creighton!

My first F4 team goes down.

[Andrew]

Holy crap Creighton!

My first F4 team goes down.

Same here

[THOR]

Shitty games tonight...blow out city

[CMJ]

Shitty games tonight...blow out city

I really thought a couple of these were gonna be good too. Oh well.

[JesseMartin]

I thought for sure I picked UCLA instead of VCU. Weird. Oh well as long as FL, AZ and Louisville keep winning I should be okay. The way things have been going, though...that's a pretty tall order

[UNTFan23]

Holy crap Creighton!

My first F4 team goes down.

My E8 took a hit with Kansas going down cut my F4 is still golden.

[CMJ]

I'm still depressed Wichita State lost.

[JesseMartin]

Friday will be the battle for Kentucky.

"The Battle for KY" is a pretty slick title.

[GangGreen]

Just had to brag. I won't be tied for 1st for long, so I'm enjoying the moment.

Was sick all weekend and didn't really keep up, but at least I can pick something right: I am officially in last place with no chance of moving out of last.

Can I get a last place trophy?

[CMJ]

I thought this NBC piece was a great story on the madness that is March (other than...it's a 68 team field but whatever).

http://s3.amazonaws.com/TVEyesMediaCenter/UserContent/180880/2967327.1503/WCMH_03-24-2014_18.56.54.mp4

Edited March 25, 2014 by CMJ

[CMJ]

Let's go Flyers! Basically I am rooting for Dayton and SDSU until they both lose. Gotta pull for schools outside the Power leagues.

[JesseMartin]

Dayton with 3 upsets so far, holy crap. MSN had a slide show of the top 20 upsets of all time and I was thinking it was pretty dumb, lots of #4 vs. #1 where both schools tend to be perennial powerhouses. To me, "biggest upsets" means "who the hell is that and how did they beat a #(1, 2, 3, etc.) seed?".

[CMJ]

Dayton with 3 upsets so far, holy crap. MSN had a slide show of the top 20 upsets of all time and I was thinking it was pretty dumb, lots of #4 vs. #1 where both schools tend to be perennial powerhouses. To me, "biggest upsets" means "who the hell is that and how did they beat a #(1, 2, 3, etc.) seed?".

Generally yes...though sometimes it's a huge upset when teams closer in seeding play. Duke over UNLV in 1991 comes to mind which was a 2 over a 1 in the Final Four. I guess you'd have to have been following basketball back then but the Running Rebels were winning games by an average margin of 30 points a game. I believe the closest they'd come that year to losing was an 8 point win. They were defending national champions and had beaten Duke the year before by 30.

No one gave the Blue Devils a shot in that game.

Edited March 28, 2014 by CMJ

[JesseMartin]

If that was the exception rather than the rule, it'd be different, but when lists like the one I saw are literally almost ALL #1 vs. #2 or #4, it's like, "yeah, dude...HUGE upsets there." I can see if the one you listed, which I actually vaguely remember, and a couple others were mixed in with a bunch of "#2 loses to #15" and such. But as it stands, the list (and most others like it) should be "most exciting upsets by teams seeded not very far apart" or something like that.

[UNTFan23]

Arizona losing would be my first hit to my F4 bracket.

[JesseMartin]

I realized that I didn't change my "Quicken" bracket and still had Duke in my F4. So if AZ loses, one of my F4s has 2 left and the other has only one

[CMJ]

Arizona losing would be my first hit to my F4 bracket.

They're my national champ -- but I am pulling for SDSU.

[JesseMartin]

I was going for them at first, but they've seemed a bit flat down the stretch so I changed my mind to Florida over Louisville about a day or two before the first round.

[JesseMartin]

Well, that was close. We'll see if they can squeeze past Wisconsin too...

[CMJ]

Well, now there's only Dayton outside the Power leagues. Still...at least there's a shot for the Final Four.

[UNTFan23]

Moved into 10th place and still have 166 possible points. The Louisville/Kentucky game should be a good one.

[JesseMartin]

I'm barely ahead of you but my potential points are super low. If Florida or Lousiville loses soon I'm gonna be hurting.

[CMJ]

You think if we somehow had a magical run in the NCAA's, Denton would be like this? Dang, I want Dayton to win the whole thing...this is awesome.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10686200/dayton-flyers-fans-celebrate-school-first-elite-eight-trip-30-years