WINNER: Raderiba ... 2024 NCAA basketball

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First round games are now active with the exception of the #1 and #2 seeds, who are awaiting their opponents to emerge from the play-in games.

Good luck all, go get that championship!!!

[reptile]

will you post a bracket in the first post?

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working on that now

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We've got two early winners in the NIT tourney...congrats to Oregon State and Boise State -- represent the NW

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Scores updated...nothing's gone final yet. We've got some close ones going though, and a #5 seed on upset alert.

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No finals yet, but scoreboard is updated.

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Getting close to some finals in the first round, and it is clear we'll have a new champ this year with South Carolina up big 80-34 over Arizona State.

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And we have five teams advancing into the 2nd round of the NIT tourney.

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We've got our first set of March Madness winners with Washington advancing out of the play-in round, while South Carolina, San Francisco and Tulane have all picked up first-round wins.

[Clanlord Carl]

Still dont have a clue how the tournament works but if i can just keep beating folks up eventually ill win or something ? Is this knockout after the previous knockout the final ? Can someone advise this simple soul what a 'powerup' is. Loving the tournament so far.

[shoop76]

Still dont have a clue how the tournament works but if i can just keep beating folks up eventually ill win or something ? Is this knockout after the previous knockout the final ? Can someone advise this simple soul what a 'powerup' is. Loving the tournament so far.

This should explain the scoring and power ups. The last tournament was the conference tournament. Now we have the main tournament. You win you move on, you lose you are eliminated.

The March Madness phase of the tournament will be played under an 8-map format with each map representing a different player — 5 starters and 3 bench players. These are played on preset maps (see list below) to replicate the neutral-court environment of the NCAA bracket.

PG — Higher seed’s Home Settings
SG — Lower seed’s home settings
*SF — Classic
*PF — City map (to reflect which region you are playing in)
*C — USA

*Bench #1 — Random
*Bench #2 — Random
*Bench #3 — Random
*settings — escalating, chained, foggy

March Madness scoring tables.

NCAA March Madness scoring by David Ball, on Flickr

POWER UPS: Teams earn up to four “power-ups” for their tournament teams by accomplishing various tasks during the regular season.

NCAAPowerUps by David Ball, on Flickr

[Clanlord Carl]

Oh thanks Shoop !!!! So it gives me a slight advantage in the knockout phase.

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Brackets and boxscores updated...We've got Washington and San Jose State have advanced out of the Play-In round.

#12 Tulane and #10 Utah State with first-round upsets, and #16 San Jose State has #1 Syracuse on the ropes late in their game.

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We also have Oklahoma State and East Carolina as the first teams to reach the NIT semifinals.

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Still a number of first-round/play-in games still active, but we have also been able to start up half of the Sweet 16 showdowns. Good luck everyone.

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Results updated...we have our semifinal matchups set for the NIT and we have Houston and San Francisco as the first teams into the Elite 8.

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We've got some upsets in the Sweet 16 round with two No. 8s and a No. 7 advancing in the tournament.

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Stanford has moved into the NIT title game.

San Diego State, a 14 seed, is the fifth team into the Elite 8.

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And we have #4 James Madison taking on #8 San Francisco in our first Elite 8 matchup

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All right, our Elite 8 matches are set and invites sent. Congrats to all who made it this far...Quite the accomplishment is a tourney of this size.

Also, we have East Carolina going against Stanford in the NIT title game.

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Congrats to molespe on being the first team to reach the Final Four with San Francisco winning the South Region.

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And big jumbo punches his ticket into the Final Four with a hard-fought West Region win over Niagara.

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All right, we've got our first finalist in raderiba and the Michigan State Spartans after pulling off a hard-fought win over San Francisco. The teams were separated by just a few points as I added up the scores, until Michigan State won it's two 'home court' maps including the star player bonus.

The other semifinal is a tight one with Kansas holding a slim 48-43 lead over South Carolina early in the 2nd half (3 maps left to score).

And East Carolina has the early lead 15-6 over Stanford in the NIT championship game.

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We've got our Championship and 3rd place invites out...it's #2 Michigan State (30-6) going up against #3 Kansas (28-7) for the title, while South Carolina takes on San Francisco for third place.

And Stanford has a 69-55 lead in the final minutes of the NIT title game.

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Congrats to Stanford and coach aalii on winning the NIT tournament 79-65 in the finals and winning the 200 CC prize for that consolation bracket.

Kansas has an early 15-11 lead in the title game.