...and we're back!
Come one, come all, pick em for the knowledge, pick em for the love, pick em for the thrill of it, or for all of the above.
https://fantasy.espn.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2023/en/group?groupID=2437136 ↗
Submit a bracket or 5 of em, whatever!
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Gotta bump this over the daily keto gummy line :face_with_rolling_eyes:
Thanks for doing again. It's always fun to compare oneself vs. the "talking heads"
@approxinfinity I was gonna tag some of the old guys on the ED ad that got posted but didn’t know if they think it was as funny as me.
@RockChalkinTexas haha you mean the tv announcers or our very own talking heads?
I’m leaning towards Alabama but I question if the team can make it thru the metal detectors entering the gym.
How many are picking UK to lose in round 1.
@AsadZ said in KU Buckets Bracket Challenge 2023:
How many are picking UK to lose in round 1.
I have 1, but Providence is playing like crap entering the tournament. 4-6 since February doesn't give me a lot of faith in Providence showing up.
@AsadZ said in KU Buckets Bracket Challenge 2023:
How many are picking UK to lose in round 1.
I have Providence in multiple of mine like 3-4 different ones - -but also have Kentucky in others
@approxinfinity BOTH LOL
Kansas winning in both of mine. One bracket I just choose who I'd like to win, so I've got Furman getting to the sweet 16 since I know a kid that plays on their team. KU over Purdue in my more serious bracket and KU over Marquette in my who I'd like to win bracket. I've got Wiscy in my NIT bracket (:
Submitted my two. My tradition is always doing a homer bracket (within reason, which almost always has KU winning it all with select first round upsets of schools like dook) and my real bracket. LETS GO
Anytime time I pick KU far they lose early so sweet 16 was it. I did it for all of us
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Whelp, making a quick adjustment regarding Steve Alford's Nevada team beating TCU.
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Welp 2-2 -- - Good thing these play in games didn't count. - -2-2. Got Pittsburg & Arizona State right - -WHOOPIE
On my fun bracket I picked Furman. On my serious bracket I'm buried already!
Lost two in the South already. I KNEW as i pushed the button that i should have taken Furman!
Go Princeton!
That south bracket is a gift to Alabama/Baylor
@dylans said in KU Buckets Bracket Challenge 2023:
That south bracket is a gift to Alabama/Baylor
Creighton is more than capable of shooting Baylor out of the tournament. Scott Drew has a lot of early exits as a high seed. Baylor's only made it past the weekend twice in their last 6 appearances.
@Texas-Hawk-10 Baylor sucks. Doesn’t change that the bracket is easy. KU blew an easy bracket a few years back as well. So it doesn’t mean anything other than they have a plate full of winnable games.
@dylans said in KU Buckets Bracket Challenge 2023:
@Texas-Hawk-10 Baylor sucks. Doesn’t change that the bracket is easy. KU blew an easy bracket a few years back as well. So it doesn’t mean anything other than they have a plate full of winnable games.
That's my point, Baylor has to get past the weekend for them to see this part of the bracket and they have a recent history of not making past the weekend. Creighton is the likely second round opponent and they are a very good 3 point shooting team more than capable of shooting Baylor out of the tournament.
Missouri has been set up nicely for a deep run now. 🤮
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in KU Buckets Bracket Challenge 2023:
Missouri has been set up nicely for a deep run now. 🤮
Yeah but they are Missouri so we will see lol
https://www.espn.com/perfect-bracket/2023/mens/10 ↗
6k perfect brackets/20million…for now. So now is your chance to tell a tall tale about your perfect bracket.
Picked Kennesaw St over St. X Halfway there. My logic was if a team loses to DePaul which X did they can't be too good.
@dylans said in KU Buckets Bracket Challenge 2023:
That south bracket is a gift to Alabama/Baylor
Creighton will pulverize Baylor.
@BShark said in KU Buckets Bracket Challenge 2023:
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in KU Buckets Bracket Challenge 2023:
Missouri has been set up nicely for a deep run now. 🤮
Yeah but they are Missouri so we will see lol
They might be Missouri, but they're not a bad team this season and they match up well with Creighton and Baylor so I could see them making it to the Elite 8 now with Arizona out of the picture.
@kjayhawks Thank you for your service. My contribution is going to bed when we're behind at halftime.
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The current last place team (50th) can max out with more points than the current 1st place team (me!)!
Pretty funny.
The bracket I made based on ESPN's BPI is actually tied for 2nd and has the highest possible score left that I can see.
@Texas-Hawk-10 interesting. Do you do the bpi as one of them every year?
In ONE of my brackets I had filled out for ESPN I was in the 97 % cat - -pretty cool. -Even had a little camp fire by my entry - lol - guess that means I was hot
I have a bracket where I would have about the same score if I had picked the exact opposite on all of my picks.
That's so horrible I had to brag about it.
@approxinfinity said in KU Buckets Bracket Challenge 2023:
@Texas-Hawk-10 interesting. Do you do the bpi as one of them every year?
I haven't done BPI before, but I'll usually do one based on one of the advanced metrics sites. I'm in 3rd place right now with only the TCU/Gonzaga game left but BPI has only gotten 7 out of 15 Sweet 16 teams so far pending the TCU/Gonzaga game. But it also has the highest potential max score by 100 points because even though the number of Sweet 16 teams isn't great, the BPI still have 6/8 Elite 8 teams and all 4 Final Four teams left. The two Elite 8 teams eliminated were Arizona and Marquette. BPI actually had KU losing in the Sweet 16 to UConn.
Doing good the first couple of rounds is November, but not how you end up winning bracket challenges. That typically comes down to nailing Elite 8 amd Final 4 teams because those rounds are worth more points per game than the early rounds.
@Texas-Hawk-10 "November"? Auto-fill??
Nobody got a single FF team right lol
@FarmerJayhawk said in KU Buckets Bracket Challenge 2023:
Nobody got a single FF team right lol
This one was totally bizarre
What a weird year. Maybe should have been more expected, in retrospect. But weird as hell.