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Umm I'm going to have to disagree, UCLA is playing the best basketball right now. Now I'm not saying its guarenteed they have it wrapped up, but they are looking good.

Four upsets on the first day of play, and here's how they stand:

1	  RedJed	    12  
1	  Twizzle	    12  
1	  angsty_asylum	    12  
1	  Crazydavis	    12  
5	  Kastigir	    11  
5	  Crescent Fresh    11  
5	  Allakhazam	    11  
8	  Niobia	     9  
8	  AegisGoat	     9  
10	  Jewelofmh	     8  
11	  Jawbox	     7  
11	  Mine	             7  
13	  Katie's Picks!     3

Hmm... how did the chimp make its picks? Fling poo at a poster of the bracket?




edit: because "how" matters

Edited, Fri Mar 17 12:42:51 2006 by Jawbox

This story reminds me of the urban myth I used to hear during my days on the trading floor at the Chicago Board of Trade, about a monkey at Harvard, that had stockpicks that beat the Goldman-Sachs analysts four quarters in a row. I always got a kick out of the visual image of a monkey in a trading jacket with a cigar, in a boiler room someplace, making picks off the "squawk box" and being given some reward for doing good.

Like a bannana and a can of Old Milwaukee.

That and monkeys are just funny, lawlbuttsekks.







Edited, Fri Mar 17 13:51:04 2006 by Redjed

After more first round upsets, most notably Kansas going out in the first round (again) and Iowa getting snuffed, here's how they stand:

1	  angsty_asylum	   23  
2	  Allakhazam	   20  
2	  Niobia	   20  
2	  RedJed	   20  
5	  Twizzle	   19  
5	  Kastigir	   19  
7	  Crazydavis	   18  
7	  Jewelofmh	   18  
9	  Crescent Fresh   17  
10	  AegisGoat	   16  
11	  Mine	           14  
12	  Jawbox	   13  
13	  Katie's Picks!    5

I think that the sadest part of the whole ordeal is that Katie is doing worse than Jawbox, who picked his whole bracket at random.

Edited, Sat Mar 18 00:32:05 2006 by Demea

So did I, and I'm still 11th.

Meh, I have no idea about the teams so I just started picking at random.

With the final four set (LSU, UCLA, Florida, George Mason) here are the standings:

 
1	  RedJed           72  
2	  Crescent Fresh   67  
3	  angsty_asylum	   63  
4	  Crazydavis       61  
5	  Jewelofmh        54  
5	  Kastigir         54  
7	  Twizzle          52  
8	  Allakhazam       49  
9	  Jawbox           47  
10	  Niobia           42  
11	  Mine             35  
12	  AegisGoat        31  
13	  Katie's Picks!   11