NCAA, NIT pools now online
The 13th annual Living Room Times men's NCAA pool, presented by the UCLA Bruins, is now online and ready to accept your brackets! The deadline is Thursday at 12:20 PM EDT.
Also, the 4th annual Irish Trojan NIT Pool is online as well. Its deadline is Tuesday at 6:00 PM EDT.
Complete pool rules are here. As always with my basketball pools, I ask that contestants please use their real names, first and last. Anonymous, pseudonymous, first-name-only, and first-name-last-initial entries are NOT allowed. If this rule presents a problem for you, please e-mail me and we can hopefully work out some sort of compromise.
If you enter and then later decide to change your picks, simply re-enter from scratch. The last entry received before the deadline will be treated as your final entry.
The women's NCAA pool will begin Monday night.
P.S. One minor technical thing that's different from previous years: after you submit your picks, you'll be presented with a confirmation page displaying your bracket. At the top of this page, it will say, "To send these picks to your OfficePool Manager, select the button below," followed by a "Send Emails" button. Clicking this button is not required; your entry is already entered into the pool database by the time you see the screen I'm describing. However, although not required, clicking the "Send Emails" button is highly recommended, because otherwise you will not receive an e-mailed copy of your picks.
P.P.S. Earlier, I was planning to have a pool for the new CBI as well. However, I've changed my mind. It turns out they reseed their Final Four, which makes it way too difficult to have a pool, especially considering that no one cares about the CBI anyway. :)
Did anyone else see Dickie V rant for two minutes about how Indiana should hire Bobby Knight, while Bobby Knight--in the split screen--glowered with a face that clearly read "shut your loud-ass face you screaming monkey before I throw a chair at you".
So uncomfortable. So hilarious.
Posted by: Scientizzle | Mar 16, 2008 11:00:09 PM
LOL!
When was this? Was it during their ESPNU Bracketology show? If so, I gotta find it - I TiVo'd that show, but didn't watch all of it live.
Posted by: Brendan | Mar 16, 2008 11:02:23 PM
I have a feeling that Brendan typing "presented by the UCLA Bruins" is going to feel as painful to him as writing "I must not tell lies" felt to Harry Potter.
Posted by: JD | Mar 16, 2008 11:26:23 PM
LOL. Yeah, pretty much.
Posted by: Brendan | Mar 16, 2008 11:27:04 PM
P.S. GO MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE!!! ;)
Posted by: Brendan | Mar 16, 2008 11:27:37 PM
It was during Bracketology.
Posted by: Scientizzle | Mar 16, 2008 11:54:45 PM
This is gonna be a fun month.
Posted by: Mike T | Mar 17, 2008 12:11:30 AM
I hate u.
Posted by: Brendan | Mar 17, 2008 12:15:27 AM
Its your OWN FAULT! You let the terrorists win....
Posted by: David K. | Mar 17, 2008 4:17:17 AM
Hey now. Calling Bruin fans "terrorists" is an unwarranted insult.
To terrorists.
I mean, c'mon. At least terrorists have the courage of their convictions. They aren't bandwagoners like UCLA fans... :P
Posted by: Brendan Loy | Mar 17, 2008 8:44:02 AM
P.S. You didn't see Al Qaeda supporters giving up on global jihad just because they had a few rough years with Steve Lavin... errr, Abu Ayoub al-Iraqi... at the helm, then rallying back to the cause and pretending they'd still been fans all along when things suddenly got good against under Osama Ben Howland, err, Bin Laden.
:)
Posted by: Brendan Loy | Mar 17, 2008 8:49:01 AM
P.P.S. Yeah, yeah, I know. Pot, kettle, etc. Lavin:Howland::Hackett:Carroll. Blah blah. Whatever. UCLA sucks.
Posted by: Brendan Loy | Mar 17, 2008 8:52:09 AM
B, here's a youtube link to the Vitale thing.
Posted by: Scientizzle | Mar 17, 2008 11:00:16 AM
can i make up a fake name to avoid showing up in google in case i win?
Posted by: yea | Mar 17, 2008 2:56:34 PM
First of all, whatever name you enter would show up in Google whether you win or not, since the full standings will be on the blog.
Secondly, um, no, sorry. As the rules state, "Anyone who enters under an entirely false name (i.e., claiming to be a celebrity or someone else who you are not) ... is subject to disqualification."
That said, can you use some sort of variation of your real name that no one would ever Google? This is what I'm getting at when I propose something like "Bren Loy" for "Brendan Loy."
Shoot me an e-mail if you want to talk about this in detail. As the rules page states, I understand legit privacy concerns and thus I want to be as accommodating as possible. At the same time, I want my pool to be a contest among real people, not Internet personas. So it's a matter of striking the right balance.
Posted by: Brendan Loy | Mar 17, 2008 3:03:49 PM