Congrats, Michael...

And thanks to all of us losers for making it all possible. 

Standings

Rank	Owner	Bracket	Correct Picks	Points	Possible Pts
1	Michael	Bigalow80	32	98	98
2	B	My Annual Tour-nament Lament	35	95	95
3	Mitchell	Mitchell's Marvelous Bracket	38	77	77
4	Beanpot	Beanpot	35	65	65
5	Mark	Dusty's Magnificent Bracket	38	64	64
6	Greg	Greg	32	55	55
7	rick	rick's Genius Bracket	32	55	55
8	mjp	mjp's NCAA CHAMPIONS	34	51	51
9	Tommy	Browns149	31	51	51
10	Jarrod	Browns57	31	51	51
11	Alex Cook	Alex Cook's Awesome Bracket	31	51	51
12	John	Zombomania	30	48	48
13	Jeff	Jeff's Superb Bracket	28	41	41
14	Mark	Mark O	30	39	39
15	Lonna	Colonel's Bracket	0	-	0

NCAA BASKETBALL SPREAD

04/02 9:20 PM 601 Michigan 602 Villanova   145u-05 -7 -02   145u-10 -6½ -10   145u-10 -6½ -10         145½u-10 -6½ -10   145u-10 -7 -10   145u-10 -7 -05   146u-10 -7 -10   145o-15 -6½ -15 Picks TV: TBS, DTV: 247

How To Bet College Basketball Futures

The “Odds to Win” wager in pro baseball is also commonly referred to as a future wager. Bettors must correctly select a team to win an event that takes place a later time. The money wagered will be tied up until there is an outcome and bettors will receive fixed odds when they place the wager. The future odds are normally updated on a weekly basis and wagers can be placed throughout the season.

So there you go......

@tour2ma said:

Nah... no such inclination here, but Blue needs to win this one for Luke Witte... 🥷

Yeah go blue but in one other tournament I've got M vs Nova, Nova winning, 130 points. Eh.

My personal tiebreaker GO BIG TEN!

@tour2ma said:

Whew...

Loyola put up a great fight, but as fatigue sets in superior athleticism will overcome superior teamwork. That Loy-Chi zone was awesome for about 30 minutes.

It's simple now... if Nova loses, I win.

Michigan needs to win one, Villanova needs to win two.

........just please don't go out and buy a bunch of maize and blue sh*t.

GO BIG TEN, sorry Michael nothing personal. 

Loyola put up a great fight, but as fatigue sets in superior athleticism will overcome superior teamwork. That Loy-Chi zone was awesome for about 30 minutes.

It's simple now... if Nova loses, I win. If they don't, bigelow wins.

http://www.vegasinsider.com/college-basketball/odds/futures/

@tour2ma said:

Upon further review I did need another Wolverine win... I think...

But now I do for sure... I think...

Right now there are nine "locked in losers" of the 14 players that is they can not gain any more points. Several are a point or two ahead of you.

If Tour gets -0- more points you should end up between 3rd and 6th place depending on how and who else wins, if Loyola runs the table were all screwed. 

If I were a betting man, which I've been known to be from time-to-time Tour is the odds on favorite right now. 

-OR- wait and see if Michigan can blow away Loyola which they should with their rugged BIG TEN experience and you're a step closer depending on how the #1 seeds do.

.........I liked it so much better last year. 

@tour2ma said:

Upon further review I did need another Wolverine win... I think...

But now I do for sure... I think...

Yeah I need 'em to win so that when my one and done Texas fan friends give me a hard time I can say, "If we hadn't run into the National Champs we might have gone further than the Sweet Sixteen you losers."

BTW our soph phenom Robert Williams declared for the draft. He is playing at a much higher level that DeAndre Jordan was when he left after one year. We were lucky he stayed for two. Two time SEC defender of the year.

@mjp28 said:

Yeah how anticlimactic is that. (or are the rest of us just a bunch of weenies?)  

Upon further review I did need another Wolverine win... I think...

But now I do for sure... I think...

Oh my very last change was knocking out Villanova for Purdue, some year, huh.

@tour2ma said:

This is weird, but I think if my two picks tonite, Nova and Duke, lose... then I win.

Yeah how anticlimactic is that. (or are the rest of us just a bunch of weenies?)  

GO BIG TEN!

  Sweet Home Loyola,Chicago..They share the ball well.Shoot the ball well.Free Throws are free points.Not much they don't do well. With Sister Jean, they on to Icky-gan..

Zombo said:

Wow, two 9's and an 11 advance ... this is one crazy-butt tournament.

Zombo

Does anybody want to win this thing?

I thought you had a solid Final Two meanwhile Tour will go as far as those Wolverines will take him......and no Cavaliers,  Zags or Buckeyes in the way.

@mjp28 said:

Xoly crap, the best seed left in the West is......#3 Michigan?  Are you kidding me? Who'd pick them?  

........and Michigan marches on together with Purdue representing the BIG TEN! Really?

@the-gipper said:

It will end April 2d.     Its not college basketball that takes so long, it is the NBA playoffs that go on forever and ever, Amen.

Yeah maybe the NBA should be "one and done" to speed things along.....so we can get to the 162 game MLB regular season!  

@tour2ma said:

OH no... it starts again tomorrow nite doesn't it?

Will it ever end?

Oh... the humanity!

It will end April 2d.     Its not college basketball that takes so long, it is the NBA playoffs that go on forever and ever, Amen.

Will it ever end?

Oh... the humanity!

@westside-steve said:

March Madness. My second favorite event of year right after Beanie Baby collecting.

WSS

I watch virtually no hoops of any kind now except some lead in conference  championship games and of course the most unique tournament in all of sports MARCH MADNESS.

Normally not nearly as wild as this year but definitely better than beanie babies or other stuffed animal collecting.

If you want to go pro out of high school...then you should be able to.  Even if that means you go to the D League...or whatever their minor league is called.  Some kids just don't belong in college...including many of the top basketball players coming out of High School.

BUT...if you do sign to play for a college...you are in it for a minimum 3 years.  As noted, they do this in baseball....and of course the NFL rule is this (except that football players have no minor league to go play in.....so they are stuck offering their talents to colleges).

@westside-steve said:

March Madness. My second favorite event of year right after Beanie Baby collecting.

WSS

It can be one of the most fun sports times of the year.....but as I have said, my interest in it has waned because of the Blue Blood hegemony in the sport....

And as appears possible...this FBI investigation may in fact uncover evidence that those programs are Cheating to a vast extent.  If you don't think that Calipari, and Williams and Coach K are not handing 100K bills to recruits.... well, I think that anyone would be a pollyanna not to believe so.   Sean Miller and Pitino are certainly not aberrations. 

WSS