March MADNESS 2008 - Page 5 - Detroit Pistons Fan Community

webz · #41 (**permalink**) 03-21-2008, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Nemo

All 15 people picking 1 or 2 seeds to win it all. (except for the guy who picked MSU.....Gutsy call). Interesting that nobody picked Duke. I thought the world was full of Dukies. My cinderella was picking Clemson to make it to the final 4. I really thought they could be championship material, but not with North Carolina in the way.

duke barely scraped by in their opening game, there's no way they'll get close to winning it. i'm actually regretting having them out in only the 3rd round.

Dumars4Ever · #42 (**permalink**) 03-21-2008, 11:33 AM

One blog post on a Kentucky sports blog I read provided this rundown of why yesterday was the lamest day of first round NCAA hoops ever, which makes sense when you consider all of these things together:

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-Only 3 out of 16 games finished with margins under 10 points

-Only 5 games had margins of 8 or less AT HALFTIME!!!

-Only 2 out of 16 lower seeded teams won (#11 Kansas St. and #9 Texas A&M)

-The only game truly decided in the last minute (not Georgia-Xavier) was Duke-Belmont. And that game went Duke’s way, making it that much worse.

-Only 5 guys scored more than 25 points in a game, and 4 of them lost, in semi-blowouts.

-We saw Kent St. score 10 in a half, Winthrop score 11 in a half, and Mississippi Valley St. score 29 IN A GAME.

-Only 2 of the 16 winners yesterday come from non-major conferences, Xavier and UNLV and they both are in nearly major conferences.

I left off his last bullet point of Kentucky losing, since I know not everyone loves my Wildcats (*cough* HQ *cough*). But I left the Duke one in, since I'm sure we all hate them.

coynejeremy · #43 (**permalink**) 03-21-2008, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Nemo

All 15 people picking 1 or 2 seeds to win it all. (except for the guy who picked MSU.....Gutsy call). Interesting that nobody picked Duke. I thought the world was full of Dukies. My cinderella was picking Clemson to make it to the final 4. I really thought they could be championship material, but not with North Carolina in the way.

The gutsiest I get is #3 Wisconsin over NC to go to the Championship game.

linwood · #44 (**permalink**) 03-21-2008, 11:59 AM

I didn't really take any chances either. About the riskiest I got was taking the home state Kentucky teams in the first round. that didn't really pay off for me.

I've only watched a handful of college games this year. I watched a UNC game where the Tar Heels looked like the Spurs playing against Michigan. After seeing that game, I picked UNC to win it all. The rest? I tried to pick teams with recent winning streaks, but I didn't find a single page with the specific information I was looking for so I got lazy and just picked teams.

OLD SKOOL HQ · #45 (**permalink**) 03-21-2008, 01:11 PM

My best wins yesterday:

KANSAS ST, MARQUETTE

My worst losses:

MSU, PURDUE, WEST VIRGINIA

If I could change my mind today:

ARKANSAS, OREGON, DRAKE