Tim Donahue and Zach Bloxham went 4-for-4 in predicting the men’s Final Four of #1 Kentucky, #2 Kansas, #2 Ohio State and #4 Louisville — the first time anyone has picked a perfect Final Four in a Living Room Times men’s pool since 2009, when Matt Scarborough did it. The feat helped Donahue maintain his lead in the pool, and… Read more »
With half of the Elite Eight set, Tim Donahue of Louisville, Kentucky has taken the lead in the 17th annual Living Room Times men’s NCAA pool. Donahue, who does not know me personally but found the LRT pools via Facebook last year, is one of three contestants — the others being Zach Bloxham (currently 11th) and Ben Eng (17th) —… Read more »
The first night of the Sweet Sixteen was a dramatic one in the 17th annual Living Room Times men’s NCAA pool. When the day began, Yvette Webster had the lead. But when Syracuse edged Wisconsin in the night’s first game, Elizabeth Styles took the lead. Webster, who had picked the Badgers, fell to 4th place. However, an hour or so… Read more »
The NIT Final Four at Madison Square Garden next Tuesday is set — UMass-Stanford at 7pm Eastern, followed by Minnesota-Washington at 9pm — and the 8th annual Living Room Times NIT Pool is down to a Final 3: Tommy Lemoine of Manchester, NH (a Michigan State alum), Dan Dinunzio of Storrs, CT (a current UConn senior), and Mike Wiser of… Read more »
Heading into the Sweet Sixteen, Yvette Webster of Round Hill, VA, who entered using the “mascot bracket” and stated, “I do not know a thing about basketball & I select by mascots – prefer birds & animals to anything,” leads the 17th annual Living Room Times NCAA Men’s Tournament Pool by a point over long-time blog reader and pool contestant… Read more »
Now that’s what I call March Madness. After the first 23 games of the first round produced just 3 “upsets” — none of them a “David vs. Goliath” situation with mid-major beating a major — Norfolk State opened the floodgates, and we saw TWO #15 seeds beat #2s in one evening (after just 4 such upsets in the previous 27… Read more »
First things first… join the women’s pool! Deadline tomorrow morning! As for the men’s tourney: we only saw two “upsets” yesterday, and neither of them was a classic David-over-Goliath situation. We had Colorado over UNLV — exciting locally, but at the end of the day, just a BCS team beating a Mountain West team. And we had one instance of… Read more »
Robert Carlos and Elizabeth Styles are tied atop the men’s NCAA pool with 69 points apiece, on 18-2 records overall (3-1 First Four, 15-1 on Saturday). They’re followed by Mike Dagen with 68 points (4-0, 14-2), Y Alice with 67 points (1-3, 16-0), and a six-way tie among Deanah Kim, Lisa Velte, Amy Booth, Karen Torgersen, Ken Stern and Alex… Read more »
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! P.S. ~1 hour left to enter the pool! Pool standings here, updating automatically. UPDATE: Live Twitter coverage: NCAA Tournament live coverage
As Loyacita was filling out her bracket this morning, Loyette chimed in with some wisdom. Listen until the end for the punch line. Clearly we’re raising this kid right: LOL! Loyette FTW! In other news, today is the 16th anniversary of my announcement of the first-ever Living Room Times NCAA Pool (or “pool/poll,” as I initially called it) in the… Read more »
