Gather around, people who have paid minimal attention to college basketball all year. While we all have different reasons for not watching, well, just kidding. All of our reasons are it is BRUTAL to watch.
But don’t let a miserable product keep you from getting involved in the annual tradition of trying to predict, as best you can, an entire tournament played by streaky 18 to 22-year olds directed by control freak head coaches who just called seven timeouts in the time it took to type this sentence. Yes, college basketball is mostly not enjoyable to watch, but single-elimination tournaments ARE fun to watch due to the chaos that can break out and, of course, the CRIPPLING EMOTIONAL DEVASTATION CAUSED TO FANS OF SCHOOLS FOR WHICH YOU DON’T MUCH CARE (I am particularly fond of shots of crying Kansas fans).
So with that eloquent introduction out of the way, take the time to sign up for this fine site’s NCAA pool in order to feel the joy, rage, disgust, and fist-shaking-at-the-sky moments that a single-elimination tournament provides. We’re doing the pool through Yahoo this year, so you will need a Yahoo ID and all that goes with that.
It only took me four tries to remember my password, which means I didn’t have to reset it for the first time in five years. They did give me the option to give them my phone number for “security reasons”, but the only way that’s happening is if they pry it FROM MY COLD, DEAD MIND (or some Inception business, which, if they go to all that trouble, they probably deserve to hack it out of my brain).
Anyhow, here is your information to sign up and experience the rush of sticking your face in the fan.
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Password: seagal123
No need to worry about filling it out before tonight’s games. Those teams aren’t going anywhere anyway! But you will need to complete your bracket before Thursday morning’s games, so GET IT IN GEAR, PEOPLE.
Also, we’re doing a Fibonacci scoring system (MATH!) so the scoring will go 2-3-5-8-13-21. Puts a little more weight on early games that I will get wrong anyway.
DOUBLE ALSO, I’ve added upset bonuses for even more scoring fun. In the first two rounds (the ones that start on Thursday/Friday, not the thing Ole Miss is in tonight), you will earn twice the points for a correct upset pick.
The way it works is the difference in the seed numbers. For example, if a 12 beats a 5, you will earn 14 extra points. However, once the Sweet 16 starts, there is no 2x multiplier (if a 4 beats a 1 means you only get 3 bonus points).
As always, prizes and such will fall from the skies to our winners. I am sure they will be really nice (the prizes, not the winners).
I’d say good luck to each of you, but I wouldn’t mean it. Instead, I hope all of you wither in the face of my outstanding selections that make me look like a genius.
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