Friday April 4th, 2008
THE
FINAL FOUR IS SET |
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Who wins it all?
North Carolina, Kansas, UCLA or Memphis? We'll
find out Monday! |
THE
PERFECT ENEMY |
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Vegas currently has North Carolina
as the favorites to win it all. The ebTalk Pool
only had 22% of them agreeing. Check out the scenarios
for everybodys picks for this weekend and the possible
outcome! |
WILL
THE CITY BE DEAD? |
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Expect Wichita, KS to shut down
Saturday night. With the big game versus old coach
Roy Williams and his Tarheels, the streets could
be empty. |
Sunday, 3/30/08
| NO
KIDDING? |
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With
Ricky looking on the left side of THE
LIST, he now sees along with the
rest of us that he dominates the leaderboard. Owning
three of the top ten spots, including 1st and 3rd,
he is in a great spot to win it all or place in
the money. |
| FAVORITES? |
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15
people selected all #1 seeds to win and advance
to the Final Four. The first time ever! It's gonna
be a great one. |
A
KISS FROM A ROSE
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| Led
by Derrick Rose, the Memphis Tigers became the third
#1 seed to advance to the Final Four. Congratulations
to the 36 people who correctly picked Memphis. Now
history waits and see if Kansas can win and let
2008 be the year known as the only year all #1 seeds
made it to the Final Four. |
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TWO
DOWN - TWO TO GO |
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UCLA - North Carolina - ? - ?. Two spots remain.
75 people have selected Kansas to win while nobody
chose the Davidson upset. #1 seed Memphis was chose
to win 36 times compared to Texas's upset choice
by 55 people. |
Saturday, 3/28/08
PSYCHO
SATURDAY |
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North Carolina rolls on as does
UCLA, meaning two #1 seeds so far have moved on.
With North Carolina and UCLA in the Final Four,
Ricky Lamb sits safely at the top for another day.
His sister is still back four points while other
also made some big jumps within shooting distance
of Ricky's lead. |
LET
THE MADNESS REALLY BEGIN |
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The Elite Eight starts now. Today
the standings will take a major hit. Seven people
have selected Louisville to win (vs. 82 UNC picks)
and six have selected Xavier (vs. 87 UCLA picks).
Those brave souls who chose upsets could shoot to
the top of the standings. The real madness begins
today. |
Friday, 3/28/08
| HERE'S
LOOKING AT YOU! |
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Ricky
Lamb is still the leader of the pack by four total points.
He is trailed by all other 112 entrants including his
sister and Arien Dill who are just back four points.
That makes tomorrow's UNC / Louisville game huge! The
standings will have a huge shakeup after the outcome
of that game. |
CURRY
ON MY WAYWARD SON |
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Stephen Curry has become the face
of this year's tournament and unfortunately for everybody,
nobody had the faith. Sixteen people had Wisconsin
to win and were let down extremely as Davidson stays
alive. |
TEXAS
TWO-STEP
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| The
only two seed left, Texas advanced Friday night giving
the six people who chose Texas another easy night's
rest. Of all the people who chose Texas, the person
who stands in the best position is Mike Olson who stands
in 16th place right now. |
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Thursday, 3/27/08
WHO'S
LAUGHIN AT ME NOW? |
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"Bam Bam" Ricky Lamb overtakes
the top spot from his older sister who must have
taught him well. At 70 points, he now has a one
point lead going into Friday's games. |
VOL-EY
CRAP!
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| Another
number two seed has been ousted as Louisville cruised
to victory. This caused a major shakeup in the standings
as 35 people correctly predicted the upset. Very big
sorry to my little bro, Brian Brotemarkle who selected
Tennessee to go all the way. |
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X-MEN
UNITED |
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Well 28 people selected Xavier
with the victory, standings changed (as 50 Cent
would say) "just a little bit". Most
noticably we finally have a new leader into the
fifth day of play: Richard Lamb. |
Sunday, 3/23/08
THE
LAMBS CHOPPING UP THE COMPETITION |
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After four days of games, Penny
Madden Lamb tops the charts for the past three of
them. With the early lead she can relax until next
weekend. In second is her younger brother whom she
must have taught well, Ricky Lamb. Can anybody take
down the powerful brother/sister duo? |
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For
the 2nd year, nobody has correctly picked all Sweet
16 teams. The closest was Ricky Lamb who selected
13 of 16 of them. A final "Did You Know"
to end your weekend. Did You Know......last year's
champion after the 2nd round was in 4th place? That
bodes well for Arien Dill who currently sits at the
4 spot. |
DAVID
SLAYS GOLIATH
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| Stephen
Curry continues his string of upsets, knocking Georgetown
out of the tournament. Four people correctly picked
Davidson to move on: Brandon Kasel, Jeff Maddox (twice),
Darin Petrie and Aaron Bushell. On the flipside, five
people selected Georgetown to win it all. |
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WESTERN
KENTUCKY FLYING HIGH |
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Western
Kentucky is feeling sweet! No. 12 seeded WKU was selected
by three people: Penny Madden, Ricky Lamb and Brandon
Kasel . Although none of them has selected them to move
into the Elite Eight, they are now all in the Top 5.
The surprises keep coming on this Easer Sunday....... |
SWEET
16? YOU VILLA-KNOW IT!
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Twelve people correctly guessed Villanova
to make it to the Sweet 16. One of them being Katie
Kontz who jumped all the way up to seventh place.
The only person to choose Villanova in the Elite Eight?
Aaron Bushell. We'll find out next weekend! |
Saturday, 3/22/08
KEVIN,
SHOW ME SOME LOVE! |
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Many many people were holding their
breath late Friday night as UCLA barely pulled away
the victory thanks to Kevin Love. One of them being
Penny Madden Lamb who has them as her champion. With
that victory, Penny still holds the top spot after
two days. |
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20 YEARS REVISITED? |
With Danny
Manning as an assistant head coach for the Jayhawks,
can he help them reach what they did in 1988? Thirty-two
pool entrants hope so as KU keeps rolling along to
the Sweet 16 after their UNLV win. |
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CATS NOT SO
WILD |
Michael
Beasley and the Wildcats ran into roadblock Saturday
upsetting many local K-State fans. Fortunately for
most, only 31 people selected K-State to win while
only 7 of those picked them to go to the Elite Eight. |
ACC You Later, Dukies!
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| Twelve people correctly picked West Virginia
over Duke on Saturday afternoon. Great way to start
off the 2nd round with 2 round points + 1 upset point.
That helps out Penny Madden Lamb who continues to pull
away. Too bad for the three who selected Duke to win
it all. |
• Kansas is the most popular selection
on Saturday by 112 of 113 people followed by the 110 who
chose UCLA over Texas A&M. Most popular upset choice?
Try the 55 entrants who chose Notre Dame over the 48 picks
for Washington State.
• Purple Pride is on the line as 31
people selected K-State to make it to the Sweet 16.
• The 2nd round now starts the Blow
Out Bucks Pot. Those who selected the optional choice on
the brackets can now root on their team to get the biggest
blow out. Standings will be located on THE
LIST.
Friday, 3/21/08
• When you only miss two games after
one round, that usually means you're in good position. Penny
Madden Lamb went 30 of 32 to take the lead after round one.
Congratulations!
• An ebTalk record was broken Friday
with 7 correct upset picks in the first round. The most
ever. And that was done by Penny Madden Lamb.
• Unlucky 13 struck twice with Siena
and San Diego pulling the big upsets. Only one person correctly
chose both not once but twice: Melissa Jenkins.
• The perfect bracket? That all ended
with Davidson's win early on Friday.
Thursday, 3/20/08
• We have reached over 100 entries in
only our second year! Thanks to everybody who signed up.
• Arien Dill's shot at perfection continues
as she went 16-0 on Thursday evening to take the early one
day lead. Can she continue on?
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