UNLV Rebels

[Jungle Rat]

[youtube]wNlGtxJH4LY[/youtube]

[T Dot O Dot]

today's bodog bet slip :

3 play parlay sweetheart teaser (+10 football, +8 basketball parlay, push goes to bodog - no ties)

Atlanta Falcons +15
(Teased 10 points)

Baltimore Ravens +20
(Teased 10 points)

Los Angeles Lakers +2½
(Teased 8 points)

Total Stake : 47.40 CA$
To Win : 43.10 CA$

[T Dot O Dot]

fuck the lakers

[Bklyn]

They are a joke. Shoulda hired Phil. At this point, they could be in danger of losing D12, too.

[Jungle Rat]

I say this year that the buy in stays the same at $50 but this year we get 2 entries. 1 sober. 1 not. Let's see who knows their shit better when they are stupid.

[hedge]

I say anybody should be able to have as many brackets as they like, as long as they're willing to back them with CAAIIIIIISSSSHHHHHH...

[Jungle Rat]

I think im just gonna punch you in the face and you can go sit back down in that chair.

[hedge]

That's ugly...

[T Dot O Dot]

I'm gonna lose a shytload of money during this tournament


still my favourite time of the year!!!

[Jungle Rat]

That's ugly...

agreed

[Saint]

where's the link to the free brackets?

[crashcourse]

http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.c ... roup/66287

id 66287
password tgp

[Jungle Rat]

My first run through it has my FF as Michigan St., New Mexico, Florida & Miami. And that's my sober one!

[Saint]

you need to start drinking

New Mexico is this year's Missouri

[hedge]

Los Lobos! Spanish style S's!

[aTm]

I have Florida, Michigan State, Ohio State, Indiana at a glance

[Bklyn]

Never sleep on the Izzo...but that's a lot of Big Ten.

[Jungle Rat]

Big Ten & Big East bruiser ball never plays well in the tourney.

[eCat]

we're probably a little advanced for this but I thought I'd post it anyways..from Bill Planschke who got 100% in the ESPN tourney pick'em

1. There is no such thing as Cinderella.

This tournament is sold on the notion that anyone can win. It's false advertising. Teams with low seedings from obscure conferences cannot win more than one game. They are fun, but they are fool's gold. For every Lehigh or Norfolk State, there are dozens of small schools that are blown out by the first half of the first game.

March Madness is a myth. The tournament is about March Greatness. The real madness this year is in picking a team like Davidson or Iona or South Dakota State. Don't do it. Only one team seeded 12th or lower has ever even won a Sweet 16 game. And, no, rich and established Butler is not a Cinderella.

2. Go Goliath.

If you've already filled out your bracket, go back and check your Final Four. Add up the numbers of the four seeded teams. Only six times in the last 26 years have those numbers been greater than 11.

There's no sizzle to picking high seeded teams, and it cuts down on the neat pregame office bragging — "Remember, I'm the guy who says Creighton is gonna rock!" — but it's the only way to win.

The NCAA tournament is the only sports event that gets more boring as it heads toward its climax. Sadly, your brackets should get more boring too.

3. Do not stray from two first-round certainties.

A 16th-seeded team has never beaten a No. 1, and it will probably never happen. It's the junior varsity playing the varsity. If this were college football, those 16th seeds would be Division III.

A 12th seeded team will beat a fifth. This has happened in 21 of the 28 years since the tourney expanded, and it's no coincidence. The weird bracketing model used by the NCAA ensures that these two teams are usually evenly matched. That 12th seeded team will lose the next round, but it's always good for one win somewhere; you just have to find it.

4. Pick students.

The coolest thing about the tournament is that, for all the freshman hype contained in last year's Kentucky victory, the best teams are usually led by juniors and seniors. When in doubt, go old. This year Louisville is led by senior and junior guards, and Indiana's top five scorers include two seniors and two juniors. Florida's entire starting lineup is juniors or seniors, and Ohio State's top three scorers are juniors. That's four teams from different regions, right? Hmmm.

5. Pick conferences.

Like budding engineers who spend their year in the advanced math class, the best teams come from the toughest conferences. Anybody who watched the Big Ten this season would have to pick at least two of their teams to reach the Final Four. Anybody who watched the Pac-12 would be amazed if any of their teams even won a game. Except, perhaps, for Cal against UNLV.

You know, a No. 12 over a No. 5.

[Saint]

And I think that with all the hype about mid-majors this year, the tournament will be business as usual. Of course, I picked Louisville to make it to the final and I once argued to Mecca that Louisville is a mid-major...