I filled out my NCAA brackets this morning. Having zero college basketball knowledge (my school doesn't do the intercollegiate sports thing), it's very much like Battleship--hit or miss, but mostly miss. This year, I employed a slightly more specific technique.
From the 1st Round: Higher Ranked Seed
(With the exception of Cornell, in honor of one Andrew Benard.)
From the 2nd Round: Longer Names
(In case of a tie, it went to the lower letter of the alphabet.)
From the Sweet 16: More realisitc names for my future children
(This helps explain why Marquette made it so far.)
From the Elite 8: Presence of blue in the school colors
From Semi-finals: Cooler mascots
National Champions: Flipped a coin--North Carolina was heads for the win!
Labels: Sports Fans
srah is making me do this...Is Gonzaga in the tourney? Because if they is, I'm rooting for them. Also Xavier. I love wierd sounding school names!
tiff said...
March 18, 2008 at 12:46 PM
I went with prettiest names.
Anonymous said...
March 18, 2008 at 1:19 PM
I love your method!
Q said...
March 18, 2008 at 4:41 PM
There is a hilarious sketch from the Peyton Manning SNL that perfectly encapsulates this bracket-filling-out madness...I apologize in advance for the crazy-long link (it's the last video displayed, bottom of the page).
http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/6326/TV/Video+List+Peyton+Manning+Skits+on+SNL.aspx
Megan said...
March 18, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Megan--the vid didn't work, but thanks to the handy dandy snl transcripts site, I was able to read it. And it was indeed hilarious!
"They should call them the miniature bulldogs!"
Gretchen Alice said...
March 18, 2008 at 6:03 PM
hello, i love liz lemon--30 rock is one of the funniest shows on television. i wish it would come back yesterday. thanks for entering--now i can stalk you...
Mindi said...
March 18, 2008 at 8:19 PM
I have invited you to come try your strategy in my Facebook group thing. I like that you have a system, whereas mine is just kind of willy-nilly.
Anonymous said...
March 18, 2008 at 8:51 PM
You are hilarious!
Anonymous said...
March 19, 2008 at 10:13 AM
I just filled mine out last night! :)
I had NO clue whatsoever what I was doing but it's still fun to see how well you do in the end (OR how well you DON'T do!)
Good luck!!!
Vanessa said...
March 19, 2008 at 10:14 AM