Recent Posts Tagged With 'ncaa_tournament'

• NCAA Bracket Intuition: Hatred

  Posted on Wednesday March 18th, 2009 at 15:42 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  This guy is hilarious, and captures the reason I have Duke losing to Texas and North Carolina losing to Butler. If I had the time, I'd write a column just like this. :)Picking against Duke just because you hate Duke is ridiculous — except that in t...

• I Am Not Crazy: KU Will Make the Final Four

  Posted on Wednesday March 18th, 2009 at 15:12 in kansas_jayhawks, ncaa_tournament

  Despite the Wall Street Journal's number-crunching, which reveals that KU had better not overlook North Dakota State, I was thrilled to discover that I'm not the only one picking the Jayhawks to make the Final Four again.Disregard the Spock pseudonym...

• 2009 NCAA Bracket Picks: Final Four, Championship

  Posted on Wednesday March 18th, 2009 at 11:30 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  It's been a long road. Sweaty palms, favoritism, and excessive caffeine, offset by some very real basketball savvy, have brought us this far. (See my Round One NCAA Bracket Picks, Round Two NCAA Predictions, and Elite Eight Bracket Predictions.)Now i...

• 2009 NCAA Bracket Predictions: Elite Eight

  Posted on Wednesday March 18th, 2009 at 10:46 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  UPDATE: My Final Four & Championship Bracket Picks are now up. After a couple rounds of frenzied picking, we now have our Sweet Sixteen teams. (See my First Round NCAA Bracket Predictions and my Second Round Bracket Picks.) But the remaining pick...

• NCAA Bracket Predictions: 2009 Second Round

  Posted on Tuesday March 17th, 2009 at 13:02 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  UPDATE: Third Round (Elite Eight) Bracket Picks are now up. It's a beautiful St Patrick's Day in Kansas City, and time to throw some more fuel into the NCAA buzz machine. Here are my bracket picks for the second round.If you missed 'em, you can still...

• NCAA Bracket Predictions: 2009 First Round

  Posted on Monday March 16th, 2009 at 15:41 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  UPDATE: NCAA Bracket Picks for the second round are now up. All right, we've reached the moment when I steel my nerves, peer over my bracket with wrinkled brow, and dive into the mad speculation and educated chaos of NCAA bracket picks!As usual, I'll...

• 2009 NCAA Tournament Links

  Posted on Monday March 16th, 2009 at 11:31 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_tournament

  Great article on the chaotic euphoria/heartburn of March Madness, brackets, and the Kansas Jayhawks from the KC Star's J. Brady McCollough. Gotta give the local writers some love.In addition, CBS' Gary Parrish has a nice piece breaking down the 2009 ...

• NCAA Tournament Bracket 2009: Pick 'Em!

  Posted on Sunday March 15th, 2009 at 23:20 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  Update: My NCAA Bracket Predictions for the first round are now up. Check 'em!Bam! The official NCAA 2009 Bracket has dropped, and the consensus seems to be that the committee did a good job. (You can download this bracket my right-clicking and choos...

• NCAA Bracket 2009: Last Call

  Posted on Sunday March 15th, 2009 at 16:21 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  Here's one more shot at the 2009 NCAA Bracket from the folks at Bracketology 101. Now all you need to do is get comfy, devise a bracket strategy, and wait half an hour for the selection show.I'll hold off on commentary until the official tournament b...

• 2009 NCAA Bracket: Bracketology 101

  Posted on Friday March 13th, 2009 at 19:03 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  Here's another Tournament bracket from the brilliant people at Bracketology 101. This one takes into account the various conference tournament upsets that took place yesterday...so you'll notice, for example, that Kansas is a #4 seed instead of a #2 ...

• 2009 NCAA Bracket: ESPN

  Posted on Friday March 13th, 2009 at 10:31 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  Well, it's clearly time to start up the bracket watch. The official 2009 NCAA Bracket is being developed as we speak, and will be revealed during the Selection Show on Sunday. However, that doesn't keep the nation's best and brightest bracketologists...

• 2009 NCAA Bracket Speculation

  Posted on Monday March 9th, 2009 at 12:39 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_tournament

  With less than a week to go before the NCAA Tournament Selection Show (March 15), the experts have free reign to start creating mock brackets...here's one from ESPN's Joe Lunardi. I'd love to see Oklahoma earn a #1 seed, but I don't think it's a done...