Round 1 results - Hoops Pick-em

Ok, well the response to my NCAA tourney draft style pool wasn't exactly astounding, but we did get 4 enthusiastic entries. At $5 each, we are looking at a whopping $20 payout, almost enough for one of us to re-coupe our losses in another pool.

Here are the standings after round 1:

Jon - 57, PT - 56, Mark - 44, Mike - 24

I have a much more sophisticated scoring spreadsheet, and as soon as I figure out how to post it here, I will.

I thought the first round was pretty good. Yesterday was a little hard on my office brackets with all the upsets, but its cool to see teams I hate like UCONN and USC lose to a lower seed despite their affect on my brackets. At this point I am in second place in my Yahoo bracket, but only to a guy who took Clemson the distance. I should re-establish my position at the top in the middle of the second round. I'm not usually this good in the pools, I guess I am getting lucky so far this year with some lucky upset picks.

Now, as far as the selection committee goes, I think they are idiots. They routinely place great small schools in super low seeds, resulting in the 15-2 games being better than the 8-9 games. if they would give some respect to the teams that win the smaller conferences to secure their invite to the tourney and penalize the mediocre teams from the big conferences a little, we may actually see some benefit to being a 2 or 3 seed. Otherwise, these 2 and 3 and 4 seeds are running up against what amounts to a 4 or 5 seed in the first round.

OK, I've said enough.