🏀 MARCH MADNESS Round of 64 Day 1 - 2026 Thread

Have TCU in a draft. But need Ohio St to win since I think Winner beats Duke. Don’t need Jamie Dixon rethinking retirement or Punch’s price going up

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For those at work

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Nebraska looks like a mid major.

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Also have Nebraska in my draft cause the person before me took Vandy :sob:

Didn’t make a bracket this year cause I always do terribly and don’t want to lose money. @Hooandtrue final 4: UVA St Johns Arkansas Houston

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Drafts are fun. Forgot about those.

Had to meet with a tech founder today. Asked him if he was going to be enjoying March Madness and he told me he didn’t get a chance to buy a square in his friends pool.

Is that really a thing? Didn’t want to press him and embarrass him.

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How does buying a square work in March Madness? You just get assigned a random team? That doesn’t sound fun.

(For a couple years I ran a Wimbledon pool where each entrant was assigned a few random players. It worked there because most entrants didn’t know who was good anyway, or even who most players were. Not so much with March Madness.)

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Every year I’m reminded that I don’t know ball. I didn’t even consider the possibility that TCU would beat OSU and here they are up by 15 at the half.

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Fighting Dixons are shooting OSU off the court.

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Miya’s under-seeded “value picks” are doing horribly.

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So what exactly do “predictive analytics” predict? Dead ass wrong about Miami (OH), dead ass wrong about TCU/OSU.

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KenPom gave Miami Ohio a 26% chance to win, and TCU a 39% chance. Based on three halves of play, pretty clear that predictive metrics are dead ass worthless.

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Those metrics for SMU included BJ Edwards who didn’t play, fwiw.

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Jamie Dixon bears a striking relevance to Mr. Burns from the Simpsons. Couple that with Todd Golden looking like Eddie Munster and Rick Pitino pulling a Pacino, and we are all set.

episode 7 monty burns GIF

the munsters GIF

Al Pacino GIF by Tony Ciccone Photography

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As always, anyone who thinks the predictives are worthless should be getting very wealthy sports betting since virtually all of the opening lines are set by predictice models.

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I’ve got a 15 game parlay - all unders - for today. Must have missed clicking one.

I’m at even money on the cash out option so far…

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What’s the site where you can watch a ton of TV channels? I think HGN posted it before and I used it this season to watch a game or 2

Sorry should’ve read the thread

It’s posted as the second post of this thread

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Whistles seem a little quiet so far.