2008 College Basketball Season [Winner: lardass76]

[*Pixar*]

Penn State wins the big ten conference and gets a automatic bid

[Keellan]

Florida wins back to back SEC Titles!

[vykingsfan64]

Penn State wins the big ten conference and gets a automatic bid

Bad drop, bad dice, and bad cards killed Wisconsin in the Big 10 championship. Other than that they played pretty well.

[Fireside Poet]

Congrats to South Florida for winning the big East with a 50 pointer. Too many turnovers cost Villanova a win. They played scared and South Florida played a great game. No number one for Villanova. South Florida is a team to be scared of for sure at the big Dance. Coach Highlander Attack will not type anything else until the big Dance is over for fear of the dreaded jinx.

Kudos to Villanova on a graceful defeat. Looking forward to the tourney after the run through the BigEast Tournament ... and of course the big W.

[flexmaster33]

Brackets are updated...completed brackets are near the bottom with the active tourneys closer to the top (CUSA, MAC, Big 12, Mountain West and Pac-10 are waiting to crown a tourney champ.

[dustin800]

North Carolina comes back from an early deficit to win the ACC Championship. The Tarheels hope that this combined with their 2nd place regular season finish is enough to erase their rough start and will garner them a good seed!

[flexmaster33]

All right...UCLA wins the Pac-10 to become the first regular season champ to repeat as conference tourney champ. congrats to lardass76

[HighlanderAttack]

Flex-curious if you can send a pm reminder of the selection show the day of the show so people will remember--my mind is out there sometimes

[flexmaster33]

Will do...

[flexmaster33]

All right everyone...at long last I've finally put the scoring formula out there for the NCAA tourney...it's below and will also stay posted under the conference tourney brackets.

I've run it through a ton of tests and it's basically a best 2 of 3 to prevent one bad drop from sending a team home. But for the geeks like myself, here's how it breaks down.


• In the unexpected case of a tie, the Classic Shapes map will be used as the overtime period.

[flexmaster33]

Selection show has gone live

[Lubawski]

The selection committee must have been drunk to proclaim Houston as the CUSA champs. They had the same conference record I did, but lost to me (Illinois St.) in our one match-up in the regular season (Game 3778042). The conference tourney isn't over, but I'm in the finals (as soon as Amazzony takes her last turn I will finish her off), and Houston hasn't even finished it's quarter final game. Yet Houston is rewarded a 2 and I get a 9?

Now I know how teams feel when they are slighted by the committee.

[flexmaster33]

I'm open to answering questions from coaches about the brackets...
For Illinois State, they dropped a bit because they were pretty much untested against top-20 teams. Their best out of league win was against Seton Hall, while Houston had wins over Bowling Green and Ohio State. The committee also felt that competing in the CUSA division was more difficult than the teams faced in the Valley Division.

[Lubawski]

I'm open to answering questions from coaches about the brackets...
For Illinois State, they dropped a bit because they were pretty much untested against top-20 teams. Their best out of league win was against Seton Hall, while Houston had wins over Bowling Green and Ohio State. The committee also felt that competing in the CUSA division was more difficult than the teams faced in the Valley Division.

So going 2-3 against ranked opponents vs 0-0 (untested I'll grant you) is the difference between a 9 and a 2? I'm not so upset about my spot as I am shocked that such a crummy team got a 2. I don't mean that as offensive to Wrexham, but his performance didn't warrant such a position.

[cazmart]

Flex,

Can you update the settings for the neutral games. I know you have it posted somewhere in this forum but if it was on the bracket page it would be nice.

Thanks and GL in your games

[wrexham]

[blacky44]

where is the nit

[Lubawski]

Last thing then I'm done complaining. A no 2 seed should be one of the top 10 ranked teams. Clearly that's not the case here. If it were, my record against ranked teams would have been 1-0, not 0-0. Correct? So how can an unranked team get a 2 seed? It's unheard of.

I've really enjoyed the tournament by the way. I'm just giving you a hard time here.

[ny5115]

how did arizona make bracket and not nc state

[wrexham]

Lubawski wrote

and Houston hasn't even finished it's quarter final game

This game was finished quite a few days ago.
I also won in the semi final Game 4351315

Wrex

[flexmaster33]

how did arizona make bracket and not nc state

It was close between those teams...Arizona got the nod by playing in the toughest conference and they had a few more "quality" wins than the Pack.

[cougfan82]

No NIT news yet???

[flexmaster33]

No NIT news yet???

It just got posted...located under the NCAA bracket

[cougfan82]

Bring on DePaul...! Maybe if I somehow pulled off the upset of UCLA...I would have somehow slid into the big Dance how Arizona did...

[plash.ricrem]

glad to see my boy lostatlimbo and xavier pick up an NIT bid. Vermont is pleased with its 15 seed, and is looking forward to hopefully springing a first round upset.