NCAA tournament bracket chat

[thewolverines24]

Sportsline simulation likes us. They've been good at predicting upsets.

https://www.sportsline.com/insiders...s_picks_basketball_ncaa_model_upsetbracketcbb

 

[tomdalton22]

Sports books aren't rooting for them. Looks like there are a few pretty big early bets on UM. $30K @ 125 to 1.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...nament-michigan-biggest-liability-sportsbooks

 

[biggunsbob]

This is a good watch. He really dives into the numbers. I like his podcast but don’t always get to it each time he airs it.
Lot of ncaa tournament numbers for your brackets.

https://youtu.be/Xo3EI32lLXg

 

[byco42]

Sports books aren't rooting for them. Looks like there are a few pretty big early bets on UM. $30K @ 125 to 1.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...nament-michigan-biggest-liability-sportsbooks

The tin-foil hat in me says that, because of this, M has no shot, and Livers's foot was insurance. Of course, I have no evidence, save for the circumstances themselves.

 

[Spartanmack]

Sports books aren't rooting for them. Looks like there are a few pretty big early bets on UM. $30K @ 125 to 1.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...nament-michigan-biggest-liability-sportsbooks

looks like 60k (a pair of $30k bets from a customer in Illinois) at unknown odds. The piece says the 125:1 odds were in December, the piece says the bets were made in February. Their record in Feb was between 13-1 and 18-1. Would be interesting to know what odds they got.

 

[Monster]

Wait wtf? We play on saturday? Since when is the first round on a Saturday? Maybe i missed something. What days are the games played this year? Not thurs thru sunday like normal?

 

[byco42]

Wait wtf? We play on saturday? Since when is the first round on a Saturday?

Since COVID. Apparently safer and easier to replace teams that have to opt out.

Maybe i missed something. What days are the games played this year? Not thurs thru sunday like normal?

?With the first round starting a day later, the second will follow suit: Round-of-32 games will be played Sunday, March 21, and Monday, March 22. The Sweet 16 moves from its typical Thursday-Friday setup to the following weekend: Saturday, March 27 and Sunday, March 28. Subsequently, the Elite Eight will move to Monday, March 29 and Tuesday, March 30.?

Source: WAPO

 

[Monster]

Since COVID. Apparently safer and easier to replace teams that have to opt out.



?With the first round starting a day later, the second will follow suit: Round-of-32 games will be played Sunday, March 21, and Monday, March 22. The Sweet 16 moves from its typical Thursday-Friday setup to the following weekend: Saturday, March 27 and Sunday, March 28. Subsequently, the Elite Eight will move to Monday, March 29 and Tuesday, March 30.?

Source: WAPO

Damn

 

[tinselwolverine]

Damn

What?s really weird is they changed the final four to Thursday and the CG to Sunday.

@1:12

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib74juWMMYQ

 

[byco42]

^^^^^^^ What’s really weirder is girls — or boys — playing Lacrosse without helmets. ^^^^^

More to the *point* when my smart a44 son was a high-school senior and offered his bio for the Varsity Hockey program he played for, in a response to the question “Favorite Movie,” his answer of “Mean Girls” stood out in a crowd of “Braveheart,” “Saving Private Ryan,” The Departed,” and “Gladiator.”

 

[biggunsbob]

Wait wtf? We play on saturday? Since when is the first round on a Saturday? Maybe i missed something. What days are the games played this year? Not thurs thru sunday like normal?

I agree. I'm going tl miss Mondays game :/

 

[tinselwolverine]

^^^^^^^ What’s really weirder is girls — or boys — playing Lacrosse without helmets. ^^^^^

More to the *point* when my smart a44 son was a high-school senior and offered his bio for the Varsity Hockey program he played for, in a response to the question “Favorite Movie,” his answer of “Mean Girls” stood out in a crowd of “Braveheart,” “Saving Private Ryan,” The Departed,” and “Gladiator.”

Tina Fay was not gonna cover Rachel’s face for anything as trivial as authenticity.

EDIT: Thinking it over...the brave and heroic protagonists of those other mentioned films?

Regina George would eat their lunches.

 

[hungry]

Texas Southern it is!

I keep saying: Yes, Michigan lost Livers. Johns Jr is going to play and so is Chaundee Brown. These 2 guys are both good enough to start on some of the teams Michigan will be playing in the first couple of rounds...

 

[hungry]

Well, the Spartan's season ended late last night. I thought they had a good chance to make a run.

 

[Mitchrapp]

I thought they did a thursday-saturday, friday-sunday kind of thing.

Edit: Never mind I saw up top.

 

[Michchamp]

I guess the committee knew what they were doing when they made MSU a first four team after all.

They didn't even know you're only supposed to foul when you're behind late in the game, not when you're ahead. Either they had it backwards or they were just totally confused.

 

[biggunsbob]

I thought Msu had a easy first two games. Guess I was way off.

 

[hungry]

Some major upsets in the brackets

 

[rumseyhouse77]

Many high seeds getting knocked out early. Illinois down to Loyola at the half.

 

[hungry]

Illinois getting a lot of calls. Cofi kills people at one end, no call. He gets little contact at the other end and it's a foul