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Re: Bracketologists start your engines: March Madness 2024
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2024, 01:42:40 am »
Looks like most commentators expect Connecticut to win it all.
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Re: Bracketologists start your engines: March Madness 2024
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2024, 01:49:15 am »
I've got big money on JMU.
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Re: Bracketologists start your engines: March Madness 2024
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2024, 01:57:28 am »
   Trump should do a Bracket.  H3ll, it might bring more black voters into his campaign. obummer did  :shrug:


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Re: Bracketologists start your engines: March Madness 2024
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2024, 02:12:29 am »
   Trump should do a Bracket.  H3ll, it might bring more black voters into his campaign. obummer did  :shrug:


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Re: Bracketologists start your engines: March Madness 2024
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2024, 02:21:22 am »
   Trump should do a Bracket.  H3ll, it might bring more black voters into his campaign. obummer did  :shrug:

Obama did a bracket because ESPN invited him to do one as part of an ESPN broadcast.  Obama had nothing else to offer the country, so they provided a way for him to be relevant.  ESPN would never do that for Trump, nor would Trump do it since he would have real President stuff to do.



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Re: Bracketologists start your engines: March Madness 2024
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2024, 01:25:34 pm »
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Obama did a bracket because ESPN invited him to do one as part of an ESPN broadcast.
Obama rode the pine as a high school hoopster, as I understand it, and I doubt he knew diddlysquat about NCAA basketball. One of the best videos of him as our sporty, vigorous president is when he needed about 24 attempts to make one layup.
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Re: Bracketologists start your engines: March Madness 2024
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2024, 02:27:10 am »
I hate Kentucky.  Good riddance.

Also, look for UConn to lose in Round 3.  Big East teams have not done well at all so far in NIT games.  So far, 1-4.  Their only win was Seton Hall over St. Joes in overtime.
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Re: Bracketologists start your engines: March Madness 2024
« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2024, 10:34:00 am »
I always cheer for the underdog.  Go Duquesne!
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Re: Bracketologists start your engines: March Madness 2024
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2024, 07:14:24 pm »
FYI... My sister-in-law who is battling cancer.

Her sister is Duke University's head coach, Kara Lawson's mother.  They just beat Ohio State to get into their SWEET SIXTEEN!!

I played little league baseball and basketball with her late father Bill Lawson in South Buffalo, back in the day.

He'd be doing back-flips if he were alive today.

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Re: Bracketologists start your engines: March Madness 2024
« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2024, 07:20:26 pm »
Go Iowa State.
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Re: Bracketologists start your engines: March Madness 2024
« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2024, 10:20:25 pm »
Her sister is Duke University's head coach, Kara Lawson's mother. 
I always liked Kara. Having played under Pat Summitt, she learned from the best.
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Re: Bracketologists start your engines: March Madness 2024
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2024, 10:29:30 pm »
Speaking of Dook, they're killing JMU.  My hopes of early retirement are going down the drain.  I was getting 250:1 odds.
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« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2024, 11:22:49 pm »
I always liked Kara. Having played under Pat Summitt, she learned from the best.

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I'm very happy for her too.  This should make recruitment for Duke a bit easier for her.

It's also a credit to her that she can inspire her players to make adjustments...because it seems they always trail by double digits after the 1st quarter.

Always coming out cold...but finishing!   No way to make a living, IMO.

Like consistantly walking the lead-off batter every inning...very dangerous way to play.
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Re: Bracketologists start your engines: March Madness 2024
« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2024, 04:47:28 am »
March Madness: Houston survives Texas A&M rally, buzzer-beater to advance past Aggies in OT thriller

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Houston appeared to have Sunday's win over Texas A&M in the bag in regulation.

Instead, the top-seeded Cougars found themselves in fight down the stretch that threatened their NCAA tournament lives.

No. 9 seed Texas A&M rallied from an 11-point deficit in the final two minutes to force overtime in the second-round NCAA tournament game. But Houston survived in a 100-95 thriller to advance to a Sweet 16 showdown with Duke.

Houston blows big lead, hangs on to win

Houston led, 82-71 with 1:48 remaining. But the Aggies rallied and cut the lead to 86-83 with 45 seconds left. They then had two looks at game-tying 3-pointers in the game's final 10 seconds. Wade Taylor IV missed both.

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« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2024, 05:05:48 am »
   * My Alma Mater had I graduated.

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Re: Bracketologists start your engines: March Madness 2024
« Reply #17 on: March 25, 2024, 05:16:42 am »
   I was there in 74`75 LIVING ON the GI bill.  Never took it serious, other than to meet Women.
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Re: Bracketologists start your engines: March Madness 2024
« Reply #18 on: March 25, 2024, 01:42:01 pm »
   I was there in 74`75 LIVING ON the GI bill.  Never took it serious, other than to meet Women.

Can't imagine that @corbe

Shocked, shocked I tell you.  :cool:
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