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J.D. Hangout Veteran Council

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Make sure you all come back tomorrow to watch the basketball gods destroy me for my 12-for-16 day today. If you picked any game I did and can still switch your bracket, I would if I knew what was good for me.

I also went 12-16, and I would've done better had Rick Barnes not been the worst coach on the planet.

I'm frightened about tomorrow.

Also, while I lost only 4 games today, 2 of them were teams I had getting past round 2. Typical. At least I didn't lose a Final Four pick today. K-State, Kansas, and Baylor are all safe.

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I’m not sure if it can get better than this. What an opening day for the tournament.

That was an awesome opening day of the tournament. Almost every single game was competitive and came down to the wire.

The only thing that would've made it perfect was if the result of the Villanova/Robert Morris could be flipped. I'm still irked by the refs' handling of that game.

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atom_25 Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

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I also went 12-16, and I would've done better had Rick Barnes not been the worst coach on the planet.

I'm frightened about tomorrow.

Also, while I lost only 4 games today, 2 of them were teams I had getting past round 2. Typical. At least I didn't lose a Final Four pick today. K-State, Kansas, and Baylor are all safe.

I'm pretty much in the same boat as you. Only real damage was G-Town, who I had in the elite 8. Ouch, but 12-16 is not bad

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YardBirds13 Major Leaguer Rising Star

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Best Opening Day of the tournament. EVER. At least in my lifetime. And I don't think its particularly close.

- A 15 takes a 2 into overtime, and should have won if the refs hadn't handed Nova the game...maybe they appreciate fine fashion and Jay Wright wooed them with his neatly tailored suit.

- A 14 beats a 3 that EVERYONE thought was the strongest of all the 3's and was a popular Elite 8/Final 4 pick...how good were Bassett/Cooper???

- A 13 beats a 4 AT THE BUZZER...Murray State!

- BYU-Florida goes into double OT with JIMMER dropping 37!

- ODU upsets Notre Dame to rep the CAA (take that, the man!)

- Wake reps the ACC by winning (not losing?) in OT thanks to a clutch Ish Smith shot in the worst coaching matchup in the history of college basketball (all basketball? sports in general?)

- UNI gets a deep three from someone who has more syllables in his last name than should be allowed by anyone who plays sports (I felt bad for the announcers) to rep the second best mid-major conference (The Valley)

- Quincy Pondexter banks one home with a second left to give U-Dub a win over Marquette and basically trash the Big East

- New Mexico gets taken to the wire by a scrappy 14th seeded Montana team whose best player, who scored like a bazillion points in the Big Sky Title game, DID NOTHING

- Tennessee and SDSU play a wild game, with the Vols surviving a last ditch 3 pointer by the Aztecs

I mean, seriously? That was one of the best days of watching sports in my life. Just unreal.

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Dr. FLK Hangout Grand Counsel

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How are you #1 like 6 weeks ago and end up an 8 seed and lose in round 1...with, as you say, several NBA prospects?

And not only lose but lose to a guy that maybe is the worst coach in the country.

Didn't all of his PGs get hurt?

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