Well, we're here. Again. In March. Or, if you're a Louisville fan like me, "Just Pre-Derby Season." What is college basketball anyway? PAIN. ABJECT PAIN. I know, I'm being a little morose. But you probably are too. Let's be honest - is ANY fanbase happy with their team this year? Other than Houston and maybe Purdue? So, let's all choose not to hate watch these games - let's enjoy ourselves and take each other's money. Like God intended it on this holiest of Lenten seasons.
Now, let's get all the usual links out of the way for the regulars...
- Buy-in: $20/entry
- Entry Form – Embedded at the bottom. You're welcome. Do not email, text, call, direct message, or facebook message me picks. I will ignore them.
- Website: tourneypools.blogspot.com – the leaderboard and all updates will be posted here. If you have a question where ANYTHING is, go here before asking, b/c odds are it’s here.
- Email: tourneypools@gmail.com – I’m constantly monitoring this and can get back to you fairly quickly.
- Paypal ID: paypal.me/PhilipCrone
- Venmo ID: @Philip-Crone
- Zelle: steelcard30@gmail.com
- Tournament Bracket Links:
- Scored games which tip before the deadline to enter include - these teams can be picked after their games tip, but you will not be able to count any points earned before entry submission:
- ACC - Syracuse v Wake Forest - 12PM Wednesday
- ACC - Pittsburgh v FSU/GaTech - 2:30PM Wednesday
- Big East - St. John's v Butler - 3PM Wednesday
- MWC - Colorado St./Fresno St. - 2PM Wednesday
- MWC - UNLV/Air Force - 4:30PM Wednesday
- PAC-12 - Washington/Colorado - 3PM Wednesday
This is my umpteenth year of this nonsense. Anything new?
At this point, we're back to business as usual. COVID seems to have receded into the depths of our mind much like a bad collective nightmare like war, famine, and JNCO jeans. With that, onto...
The Rules
Participants each pick one team from each of the 8 conference tournaments specified below. Who you can pick will be based on seed in the tournament. Participants can pick only one 1 seed, 1 2 seed, 1 3 seed, 1… you get the idea. Here’s the conference tourneys we will be choosing from:
- AAC (Where Houston isn't the 1 seed so FREE SQUARE!... Again)
- ACC (Louisville is probably already out by the time you see this)
- Big 12 (Which somehow has proven to be more ethical than the SEC, but that's a low bar)
- Big East (Yes, Villanova is really 6th in the standings there!)
- Big Ten (Who I think has to cede their reputation as a top conference given Northwestern is the 2 seed)
- Mountain West (They may have just permanently replaced the A-10, stupid schedule be damned)
- Pac-12 (Who will probably be replaced by the A-10 when they're done imploding)
- SEC (Where you can be an ACCESSORY TO A MURDER if you got lottery pick potential - seriously, we can't at least suspend Brandon Miller for a game?!)
You may replace a better seeded team w/ a worse seeded team in your 8 team entry if you so choose. For example, if you do not like any 3 seeds in any conference tournament, you can replace your “3 seed” slot with any other team seeded 4 or higher. Likewise, this also means that teams higher than an 8 seed are eligible to be used in any slots.
Scoring will be as follows:
- Championship win – 4 points
- Semifinal win – 3 points
- Quarterfinal win – 2 points
- “Quarterquarterfinal”? win – 1 point
This scoring means that only four games maximum will be counted. Teams playing in a fifth game will not have those wins counted.
Entry Fees & Payouts
- Buy-in price is $20
- Multiple entries are allowed
- Pool will be paid out 100%. The only way the moderators make money is if we are smart enough to beat you fools down. Which happened last year. Win your pride back dammit!
- The number of places to be paid out and the allocation of the prize pool in those paid out places will be determined by the moderators once numbers are final and published before the end of the first day of the contest.
- In the event of a tie, participants will split any winnings evenly. I know I’m famous for my obtrusive tiebreaker rules – I’m taking the lazy way out until someone complains and I fix it next year.
- Deadlines
- All entries & $$$ must be submitted by Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 at 6 PM EST – There are a handful of games before that, so if you want those games counted, get your entry in! You may use these teams after they tip and before the deadline, but their points in these games will NOT count toward your total! Also, the Tuesday ACC games don't get any points. The first Wednesday game tips off at Noon EDT, so if you want to be 100% sure, just get entries in by then. All entries are time stamped when submitted, so don't whine that it was on time.
$$$ can be sent in one of three ways
- You hand it to a moderator in cash or check form
- Send it via paypal/venmo/zelle to the account listed above - seriously, it's 2023 and you haven't left your house in 365 days; by now, you should have an account on one of these services
- If you MUST mail me a check, email me for the address - now that the shop is closed, I have to use my home address, and I'm not freely giving that out to a site crawled by Google.
No IOU’s will be accepted. This isn’t a charity. Maybe when UNICEF gets into the tournament pool business, you can go there and give them your IOU. Until then, we’re the guys to talk to.
Congrats on making it to the end! Your prize? An entry form!
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