Comments on: Pick your 16

By: Kurt

Kurt — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:45:17 +0000

What have we learned? don’t listen to Kurt! Doh! I looked like a genius on those solo picks and then the favorites woke up.

By: SpartanDan

SpartanDan — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:39:27 +0000

Some stats about the picks:

Most picked team: North Carolina (18 out of 22), followed by MSU (17), Utah State (17), Wisconsin (16), West Virginia (15), and Purdue (15).

Solo picks: Utah (msufan23), Boston College (Alex), Siena (spartanproducer), Dayton (Tommy), Marquette (DP99), California (Mark in DC), Northern Iowa (wife of a spartan), Tennessee (EB), American (Kurt), Akron (also Kurt), Stephen F. Austin (kj).

Highest seed picked by no one: Texas A&M (9). In fact, they and Cornell (14) are the only teams other than the 15s and 16s to get no picks.

Least support for a top-4 seed: Syracuse (3 picks), Oklahoma (4), Washington (4), Kansas (4), Louisville (5), UConn (5).

Most daring (highest average seed of picked teams): TMadison25 (8.56), Chris (7.88), Seer (7.69).

Most chalk: Sparty in Badgerland (2.94), wife of a spartan (3.44), dougieb (5.06).

By: kj

kj — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:19:36 +0000

Just in the nick of time, Tommy.

I just fixed the comment time stamping for DST, btw.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:17:01 +0000

i hope its not too late i didnt get a chance to check this till now

dayton
michigan state
washington
utah state
florida state
VCU
western kentucky
clemson
pittsburgh
west virginia
villanova
north carolina
oklahoma state
maryland
missouri
wake forest
70

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:53:09 +0000

1. North Carolina (1)
2. Memphis (2)
3. Villanova (3)
4. Missouri (3)
5. Wake Forest (4)
6. Purdue (5)
7. Arizona St. (6)
8. West Virgina (6)
9. Texas (7)
10. Boston College (7)
11. Maryland (10)
12. Utah St (11)
13. Arizona (12)
14. Wisconsin (12)
15. Western Ky (12)
16. Miss St (13)

Tie breaker: 73 possessions

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:10:09 +0000

Tiebreaker: 67 possessions

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:09:45 +0000

Holy crap I kept meaning to submit but almost forgot. Just under the wire:

Florida State (5)
Wake Forest (4)
Michigan State (2)
North Carolina (1)
Temple (11)
Virginia Commonwealth (11)
Michigan (10)
USC (10)
American (14)
Wisconsin (12)
Illinois (5)
Akron (13)
Missouri (3)
Duke (2)
Kansas (3)
Syracuse (3)

By: EB

EB — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:39:56 +0000

1) Wisconsin (12)
2) Portland St (13)
3) Minnesota (10)
4) North Carolina (1)
5) West. Kentucky (12)
6) Arizona St (6)
7) Clemson (7)
Ohio St (8)
9) Wake Forest (4)
10) West Virginia (6)
11) USC (10)
12) MSU (2)
13) Utah St. (11)
14) Tennessee (9)
15) Villanova (3)
16) Missouri (3)

73 possessions

By: kj

kj — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:38:50 +0000

Obviously, you think Purdue is really cool, Mark. Just admit it.

By: Mark in DC

Mark in DC — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:34:53 +0000

I don’t know how that emoticon got into my picks. For the record I hate those things.