Been meaning to write about the NCAA pool I got into. It's different from your usual March Madness pool, as rather than just picking who you think is going to beat who all the way to the final game, it's based on the seedings. Each of the four regionals has teams ranked 1 through 16, and you pick one team from each of the four teams at each seeding number. Then when one of your teams wins, you get the number of points corresponding to its seeding multiplied by the number of the round in which it won. So the further a middle- or lower-seeded team goes, the better off you are. Winner gets 70% of the pot, second gets 20%, third 10%. Not sure how many people are in the pool.
My picks were as follows:
(1) Memphis
(2) UCLA
(3) Gonzaga
(4) LSU
(5) Syracuse
(6) Indiana
(7) Georgetown
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Kentucky
(9) NC-Wilmington
(10) N.C. State
(11) George Mason
(12) Montana
(13) Pacific
(14) Murray St.
(15) Penn.
(16) Albany
I ended the first round with 64 points, and was really hoping that Albany would hang on and knock off UConn last night, but not to be. Oh well. Even so, 10 of my 16 teams won in the first round, and of the 5 I have playing today, I've got one winner so far (LSU), one loser (Montana--my lowest surviving seed), and three still playing--UCLA, and both sides of the Gonzaga-Indiana game, so I'm guaranteed at least one more win today, with five more teams playing tomorrow.
