The pools are, as always, FREE to enter. Winners of the men’s & women’s NCAA pools will (eventually*) get a t-shirt or equivalent prize. More importantly, all winners will attain eternal glory.
Complete rules here. Entry links below. Good luck!
Men’s NCAA Tournament Pool:
• Standings here!
• Scoring system: 3-4-7-10-16-24-33.
• View everyone’s picks as a printable PDF.
• NOTE: Pursuant to Rule 4 and Option 3, First Four picks have been “made correct.” This does not impact whether people get credit for their First Four predictions, but it means that if you picked, say, Cal to the Sweet 16, and USF goes to the Sweet 16 instead, you get credit for those later rounds as if you’d picked USF. (But you still don’t get credit for the First Four game itself. Make sense?)
Women’s NCAA Tournament Pool:
• Standings here!
• Scoring system: 4-7-11-17-24-33.
• View everyone’s picks as a printable PDF.
NIT Pool:
• Standings here!
• Scoring system: 7-10-15-20-25.
• View everyone’s picks as a printable PDF.
*I’m…uh…three years behind on championship t-shirts/prizes, I believe. Yeah. I keep forgetting about that. I’m hoping to finally catch up this month (but I said that last year too). So, bottom line, don’t play for the t-shirts; play for the Eternal Glory. 🙂
P.S. You can re-submit your bracket with changed picks as many times as you want (up until the deadline, of course). I will assume that the last bracket you submit is the “correct” one, unless you tell me otherwise. If you just want to make a few small changes to a previously submitted bracket, leave a comment here, or e-mail me at irishtrojan [at] gmail.com, and I can change it for you.
(IMPORTANT NOTE: If you make changes to any part of the bracket — including, say, the East Region?? — and you submit those changes AFTER some First Four games have already started, you will lose any points you might have gotten for those First Four games, even if your changes are unrelated. Gotta be consistent.)
UPDATE: The pools now have their own Facebook Page, which I think looks pretty slick with the new “Page” layout. If you’re on Facebook, I strongly encourage you to “Like” the pools’ Page, as I will be posting updates there (as well as here) during the tournament. You should also follow me on Twitter, @brendanloy and @MileHighMids, if you aren’t already.
They should rename the NIT this year to the Pac-12 / SEC Invitational”. Seriously, four teams each?
In any case, I took Drexel all the way because I once slept in a Drexel dorm room.
… and because I hate the SEC, and because the Pac-12 was so awful this year I can’t root for any of our teams to go very far.
It won’t let me submit mine! I’ve tried a few times today, and it keeps telling me that some picks are missing and that I need to fill out the entire bracket, which I’ve triple-checked to be complete. 🙁
Huh. You’re the second person to report that issue. What OS and browser are you using?
In any case, if you can send me a screenshot of your picks or something similar, I’ll input them for you if need be.