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177749.1
Date: 3/17/2011 7:12:04 PM
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Couple of upsets and near upsets already...

Down goes Louisville...
Down goes Vandy...

Princeton almost upset Kentucky!

Please pray for the Bruins....

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177749.2 in reply to 177749.1
Date: 3/18/2011 12:04:45 PM
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I had Louisville in the Elite 8 in my bracket...that loss hurt.
My only other loss in day 1 of the tourney was ironically another 13/4 matchup. I had Belmont upsetting Wisconsin.

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177749.3 in reply to 177749.2
Date: 3/18/2011 12:15:08 PM
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Bruins, after being up by 20+ pts, almost gave the game away to Michigan State. Florida next...

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177749.5 in reply to 177749.4
Date: 3/20/2011 8:01:38 PM
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Basically, the 30 or so conference champions (from the Big East, PAC-10, ACC down to the smaller conferences) plus 30 plus at-large teams play in a 64-team single elimination tournament for the college basketball national championship. More recently, they've added additional teams...now there are 68 teams and 4 early games/play-in games.

The tournament takes 3 weeks, with each team playing 2 games a week until they are eliminated. Some of the later rounds have names like the Sweet-16, Great-8, Final Four etc.



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177749.8 in reply to 177749.7
Date: 3/20/2011 9:12:57 PM
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There are conference regular season games and a conference tournament, but the NCAA seedings are independent of conference.

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177749.10 in reply to 177749.9
Date: 3/21/2011 1:05:16 PM
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The seeding is by committee...although they use some called the RPI too do a lot of the work: http://www.realtimerpi.com/rpi_Men.html


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177749.11 in reply to 177749.9
Date: 3/21/2011 1:05:17 PM
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The seeding is by committee...although they use some called the RPI too do a lot of the work: http://www.realtimerpi.com/rpi_Men.html