NCAA Bracket group on ESPN

[FlyingSpaghettiMonster]

That is the same thing my GF did and she may beat me! I'll never live it down if her picks beat mine.

I didn't watch enough college basketball this year with Bradley being horrible and the Bears being good. I left it up the the selection committee to pick teams for me.

[tsguthrie]

possibly in 1st after today

[FlyingSpaghettiMonster]

possibly in 1st after today

It looks like you will win if KU wins.

[tsguthrie]

It looks like you will win if KU wins.

Was 1st...then 4th ... now 9th

[Beninator]

Crazy brackets this year! A lot can still happen and some people still have some points remaining on their bracket!

[Fetz86]

If you UConn wins, it looks like I am the only one who picked them.

[Da Coach]

Sorry if this was already posted, but ESPN has announced that only 2 people have posted correct brackets that include the current Final Four out of over 5.9 million brackets submitted!
That means there is a pretty good chance that not one of them will pick the correct full bracket at the end. Is that amazing?

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/tag/_/name/2011-ncaa-trends

[tsguthrie]

Sorry if this was already posted, but ESPN has announced that only 2 people have posted correct brackets that include the current Final Four out of over 5.9 million brackets submitted!
That means there is a pretty good chance that not one of them will pick the correct full bracket at the end. Is that amazing?
http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebaske...11-ncaa-trends

Crazy year for everyones brackets.

[Beninator]

There is a guy in my office pool who is currently in 15th place! In this pool at my work place, I pay out for first place, second place, and last place. The person in 15th place can move to second place if UCONN beats Kentucky!

On the other hand, last place in the pool has already been decided!

[PTownHawkeye]

Sorry if this was already posted, but ESPN has announced that only 2 people have posted correct brackets that include the current Final Four out of over 5.9 million brackets submitted!
That means there is a pretty good chance that not one of them will pick the correct full bracket at the end. Is that amazing?
http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebaske...11-ncaa-trends

Actually, I don't believe a fully correct bracket has been picked in many years. ESPN said that only 2 people even picked the FINAL FOUR correctly, regardless of the other games. I don't believe that anybody, anywhere had a correct bracket past the sweet 16.

[Beninator]

Congratulations to Fetz 86 for the winning entry in the bracket contest. Very well done in a crazy year to pick brackets!

[Da Coach]

Congrats Fetz!

Out of over 5.9 million entires to ESPN's bracket challenge, 279,308 (4.7%) correctly predicted UConn would win-

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/29545/279308-picked-the-overall-winner

Only 881 people out of 5.9 million correctly picked both UConn and Butler in the championship game-

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2011/04/ncaa-mens-tournament-bracket-stats-of-the-day/1

However, only 2 people out of nearly 6 million predicted all 4 of the Final Four teams correctly.
President Obama actually did pretty good, finishing in the 87.4 percentile.
But notice that a 5-year old kid beat every ESPN expert.

Based on ESPN's point system, this guy had the highest score-

http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/en/entry?entryID=3570279

Here is a story about an librarian in Oregon who was the only person out of 3 million people in Yahoo Sports bracket contest to correctly pick the Final Four. She also correctly picked UConn and Butler to advance to the championship game, and UConn to win it all. For that she will win $5000.

http://www.kptv.com/sports/27423688/detail.html

By the way, in interviews she admitted she knew little about college basketball, but relied on a mix of favorite numbers, letters, and animal mascots.

http://www.nwcn.com/home/?fId=119058164&fPath=/news/local&fDomain=10202