1) Because there is no reason for this topic to not exist.

2) Because my favorite team is number 2 in the nation.

Basketball needs a discussion topic like College Football and Baseball have had.

KU plays Texas A&M tonight. Both are undefeated. Could be good.

Beside the usual powerhouses (Duke, UConn, and North Carolina) I recommend everyone watch out for the Gators come March. I know this may be bias but we have some great players returning from last year, and some important freshman who can make a difference.

my local teams are stomping some booty as of late...washington and gonzaga.Go Zags! and huskies of course.

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Originally posted by Imprezu21:
my local teams are stomping some booty as of late...washington and gonzaga.Go Zags! and huskies of course.

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The Huskies KILLED my Trojans last night at the Sports Arena. In fact, they accused SC of quitting on our coach. Our hoops team is as bad as our football team is good, but what else is new??? And they actually think Tim Floyd is going to make things better. Yeah right.

Speaking of the 'Zags, I'm so dang impressed by that team every year. I hope they can keep the recruiting going. I love little schools that dominate in a single major sport (a la Cal State Fullerton in Baseball).

I am just going to put a link to two incredible 80-foot shots made by the same guy in the span of three days. The link is to a news station that has footage of both.

What an arm that guys got.

Surely an NFL proposition.

Man..that is cool and all doing it on tV and such.

But being a former gym rat...i used to skip all my classes in hs and play basketball all day long.Anyways...we used to do stuff like that all the time...i have seen guys make 3/4 shots 3 or 4 times in a row.

I guess we should have had a vide camera while doing it.

The impressive part was the way he did it in the game, to win no less! Doing it in an empty gym is hard enough...doing it with opposing players around you is damn near impossible.

I told everybody to watch out for the Gators, and they are not disappointing. After their impressive victory over Kentucky they moved up the polls to number 17 and became a strong number four seed. I am working on a bracket right now but I won't be done for a while. I doubt UF can get to far in because if they win their first two games they will be facing North Carolina and I don't like our chances.

I went 15 for 16 on my first day, first round office pool picks. I got UW-Milwaukee over Alabama, UAB over Nevada, and Nevada over Texas, all upsets (bonus point for an upset)! I only missed Pittsburgh, and that sucks because I had them getting to (and losing in) the Sweet 16.

Given that my office pool was a bunch of philosophers (Read: non-sports fans!), I think I've got a good shot at winning the pot. 15 out of 16 helps.

Don't rub it in, I got 12/16, I didn't think there would be as many upsets as there were. I should have went with Wis. Milwaukee, but there wasn't any way I was going to pick UAB over LSU or Iowa over Cincinnati.

You did an excellent job though. Don't worry about Pitt, losing I did the same thing, but you had Pitt over Washington? I have N.C. State over Charlotte today as the upset today.

So far I am 21/26. I heard a couple sports analysts going with Vermont over 'Cuse, namely Woody Paige and Michael W. Smith, but I didn't take them seriously. I have missed the following picks:

UAB over LSU
Pacific over Pittsburgh
Iowa over Cincinnati
Vermont over Syracuse
Ws.-Milwaukee over Alabama

I had both Cincinnati and Syracuse losing in the regionals. My brakcet isn't ruined just yet, but with a couple more erroneous picks it could become utterly wrong.

Woody Paige is a babbling dunderhead, but he made a nice pick. I just don't think he has ANY clue about anything in sports. He's a so-so columnist and a TERRIBLE TV commentator. Michael Smith might be the most annoying person on "Around the Horn" and he's so inarticulate, I don't know why he gets airtime. At least Woody Paige can be funny, from time to time.

After the first two days of games are over, I'm 27 out of 32. I was 15/16 yesterday, but only 12/16 today. I lost two more of Sweet 16 teams (Kansas and Syracuse) today, to go with Pitt's exit yesterday, but all of my Elite 8 teams are still alive.

I was wrong about Pitt yesterday, and Kansas, Syracuse, Minnesota, and Stanford today. I was REALLY tempted to take Vermont over Syracuse because of their talented player Coppenrath, but I never would have thought to take Bucknell over Kansas.

Ugh.

The wheels really came off today.

I lost with Boston College, Wake (who I had in the Final Four!), Gonzaga, and Oklahoma.

I won with Arizona, Illinois, and Kentucky.

I might be OK if my other three Final Four teams (UNC, Illinois, and Duke) make it, and if an Illinois/UNC Final Four goes to the Tarheels.

No love for the Huskies??

Shame

They will at least make it to the final four.I think their next game will be the toughes tuntil then...especially if louisville wins.

I'm ruined, one of my final four teams is out (Wake Forest), and over half of my sweet sixteen's are out among which are Florida, Wake Forest, Gonzaga, Georgia Tech, Boston College, Kansas, Uconn, Syracuse, Oklahoma. I didn't expect so many upsets at all, it is "Madness." I hope my other final four teams make it (Illinois, Duke, and North Carolina).

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I'm ruined, one of my final four teams is out (Wake Forest), and over half of my sweet sixteen's are out among which are Florida, Wake Forest, Gonzaga, Georgia Tech, Boston College, Kansas, Uconn, Syracuse, Oklahoma. I didn't expect so many upsets at all, it is "Madness." I hope my other final four teams make it (Illinois, Duke, and North Carolina).

It sounds like we're in the same boat, Mike. I had the same Final Four as you. I have 8 of the Sweet 16 (IL, AZ, OK St, Louisville, UNC, Villanova, Duke, KY) and three of the Final Four still left, so I may still be alive in my pool. My early upsets (UW-Milwaukee) net me bonus points and I'm playing against non-sports fans, so I may still be in it.

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My early upsets (UW-Milwaukee) net me bonus points and I'm playing against non-sports fans, so I may still be in it.

And so it is. I'm currently tied for second place, one point behind the leader. She made some wild picks (Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Wisconsin in the Sweet 16) because of personal connections to those schools, but she's beating me, so I can't complain.

Unless Washington or Louisville make it into the Final Four, I should finish second in my pool, taking home a little cash.

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Unless Washington or Louisville make it into the Final Four, I should finish second in my pool, taking home a little cash.

I'm actually thinking that I should have put the Cardinals into my final four, Louisville is looking really good and I'm not sure if anyone can stop O'bannon, but what's done is done.

We lost another final four team, Duke, PE. Hope that you aren't looking too bad in your pool now.