"I'm still calling it 1st round, not 2nd round" NCAA Tourney Open Thread
Murray State opens up against Colorado at 12:15pm on CBS.
We are about an hour away from tip off! Let the fun begins!!!!!!
March 15th, 2012 at 11:10 AM ^
I don't want my 9 year old cousin to beat me again...
Edit: Wait a minute...Colorado plays UNLV...
March 15th, 2012 at 11:20 AM ^
He meant Colorado St.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:30 AM ^
Some folks around here have the tendency to drop the state from school names...
March 15th, 2012 at 11:07 AM ^
I call it the So-So 64, then the Thriving 32, and so on
March 15th, 2012 at 11:07 AM ^
In my 5 brackets I have one that is perfect and one that has 1 victory from the first four. How are others starting out?
March 15th, 2012 at 11:08 AM ^
But your brackets really do first four games? I have never considered such a possibility. The games Tuesday were captivating, but the ones last night were brutal.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:16 AM ^
My friends and I decided to include the play-in games just for fun. Then I went to the March Madness website and they included them too. To be honest, I didn't have a clue about these games and felt it just gave people a chance to get an early lead.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:07 AM ^
go murray state!
and...BEAT OHIO!
March 15th, 2012 at 11:08 AM ^
I am overly skeptical about Murray State. I kind of want them to lose so I can feel right about saying how they were ranked too high all year. I think this officially makes me a hater and I'm not too proud.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:13 AM ^
Oh, so it's called the 2nd round now?
March 15th, 2012 at 11:15 AM ^
The morning before March Madness begins and ESPN is talking about Dwight Howard. Get off my lawn, ESPN
March 15th, 2012 at 11:22 AM ^
That's because the tournament is on CBS not ESPN. That's why I'm watching The Price is Right.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:24 AM ^
Lady totally got the easiest last spin. only needed to beat .35!
Drew Carey is also slowly morphing into Bob Barker
March 15th, 2012 at 11:29 AM ^
Who the hell would pay $3500 for that ugly desk?? Worst prize ever. Gets a new Mac, though.
The Mac was $3400, the desk was $100 and the cheapest they could find from IKEA.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:26 AM ^
The price is right before the tournament...what's better?!
March 15th, 2012 at 11:32 AM ^
Girl just bid 5 dollars under somebody. This is after she thought she'd won the previous round, but didn't realize the guy next do her did. She's not having a great day
March 15th, 2012 at 11:30 AM ^
They weren't talking about Tebow. Take what you can get.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:52 AM ^
I hear Favre is thinking about a comback!!!
March 15th, 2012 at 11:20 AM ^
Good time of year for sports, March Madness, NFL free agency, and Spring Training with opening day in less than a month. This time of year is 2nd only to Football season starting and MLB playoffs.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:20 AM ^
Just caved in and made a bracket even though I said I wouldn't this year, but a lady in the dude offered me a bracket so I couldn't say no. C'mon UNC-Asheville!
March 15th, 2012 at 11:32 AM ^
A lady in the dude? I think they're doing it wrong....
March 15th, 2012 at 12:50 PM ^
If so, then you, my friend, have a very boring sex life...
rule 34
March 15th, 2012 at 11:26 AM ^
I'm marrying into a family of Duke fans. All the men in the family pick Duke to win it all every year.
I grew up a Carolina fan (because I grew up in Chicago and Michael Jordan and all that). I can't wait to watch how this goes down.
FWIW, I've got Duke losing to Baylor.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:30 AM ^
I usually skip class today, but I have an exam at three. Such a bummer.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:55 AM ^
March 15th, 2012 at 11:35 AM ^
I hate it because I have two enormous tests coming up in the next week and I can't just sit around watching all the games playing today.
But I love today too, because a club I'm in is doing a tour of the Big House, so I'm going to be taking a tour of the stadium as a study break, so I get to see the locker rooms and walk the field. I'm pretty damn excited for that.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:39 AM ^
Just so you all know, I'm being paid to host a tournament day at a local college. Yea..2 projectors and a flat screen. Deal with it.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:43 AM ^
Yeah, yeah. We know in reality you're buried under TPS reports.
March 15th, 2012 at 12:03 PM ^
March 15th, 2012 at 11:53 AM ^
I'm with you. I'm still calling it "First Round". Those early games are "Play-In" games as far as I am concerned.
But we don't have a prayer. We were all never going to call Div 1-AA "FCS", or call the Big Ten East and West Divisions "Leaders" and "Legends". But the great media marketing machines wore us down.
Hello Second Round.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:57 AM ^
I refuse to let this one get me. I haven't decided what I'm going to do about the new 10 team MLB playoffs yet...
March 15th, 2012 at 12:56 PM ^
I'm just going to pretend that the two WC teams finished with the same record and are having a 1 game playoff for the final spot.
March 15th, 2012 at 12:02 PM ^
This one's a little different. Names like "I-AA" and "FCS" are just arbitrary labels. "First round" is more descriptive. For 64 of the teams, this is their first round of NCAA tournament action. For only four teams is it the second round, and few even watch their "first round" games, anyway. I could possibly see the NCAA backtracking on this.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:59 AM ^
Those champagne glasses in The Young and the Restless commercial were LARGE.
March 15th, 2012 at 12:01 PM ^
OMG IT'S HAPPENING!
March 15th, 2012 at 12:16 PM ^
Tip off :)
March 15th, 2012 at 12:16 PM ^
lets go murray st.!!!
and the game I really need today is harvard. I have them in the round of 8.
jdon
March 15th, 2012 at 12:21 PM ^
Ack. come on Murray State :(
March 15th, 2012 at 12:22 PM ^
Bill Raftery brings nothing to the table. I hate him.
March 15th, 2012 at 12:24 PM ^
I love that they brought back the Boss Button for the NCAA's video player. That's pretty funny.
March 15th, 2012 at 12:24 PM ^
Wish they would kick it off withh 4 games all at once.
March 15th, 2012 at 12:25 PM ^
Did Vern Oundquist lose an eye!! Oh my god please never show him again.
March 15th, 2012 at 12:30 PM ^
Is not a holiday to me and will hardly be thought of with opening weekend occuring. THIS is truly my late Winter/early Spring holiday. Off work for the rest of the week/weekend; I am soooo...Content. God I Love this sh*t.
March 15th, 2012 at 12:33 PM ^
Apparently Murray St. doesn't know how to block out. They look totally lost on offense, too.
March 15th, 2012 at 12:35 PM ^
This is some sloppy shit right here.
March 15th, 2012 at 12:35 PM ^
Paul Hornung is still the most undeserving Heisman winner of all time
Especially when you consider that it was Jim Brown that was screwed out of that Heisman.