Ricochet's NCAA Tournament Pool
Take a dip! The water's great.
Please join Ricochet's NCAA college basketball tournament pool. The winner gets a Ricochet T-shirt! You -- yes, you -- can officially be the very first wearer of coveted and official Ricochet gear.
Update: We're including President Obama's picks into the pool, as well, so you can feel great satisfaction when your team knocks his out. And if, horror of all horrors, he should beat us all, we can think of creative ways to get the Ricochet T-shirt in his hands. In an ACORN envelope, perhaps?
Click this link and follow the steps for registering on the site. (If you are already a member of tournamentpools.com, our host, no need to register again.)
Please use your Ricochet name so we all know who we are competing against! Plus, it helps for trash talk purposes to be able to reference your typos in comments.
(Kidding. Geez. So sensitive.)
You should see references to Ricochet NCAA Pool at the side or top of the screen. You don't need to find it. The link above takes you directly into our group.
Once you are registered, you may make picks. I found the process extremely easy and user-friendly.
My selection strategy was nothing to write home about. Dance with Dora is entertaining the troops at the moment, albeit briefly, so I had to fly through. But that fits my personality. If I agonize over my choices, I invariably make extra dopey picks and spend the next three weeks grinding my teeth. When I play fast and loose, I have better results. We'll see.
So, if I didn't know anything about the hoops team at the particular school in the bracket, (and there were a troubling amount of such cases) I just picked a school I had a good feeling about. For example, I visited Belmont once when I was 20. It was a pretty place. If I'm remembering the right place. Oh well. Click Belmont.
See how easy it is?
Please join, and I'd love to hear your selection strategy. Do you know a lot about these teams? Or are you one of those folks who chooses the manlier mascot? It's been known to work, by the way.
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May '10
Re: Ricochet's NCAA Tournament Pool
Mine were too easy. It's obviously going to be a Tennessee-Vanderbilt final.
May '10
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My strategy is called dumb luck if I win. But I want my shirt to have a pink Ricochet logo...none of this blue boy stuff.
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I'm in. Blue Devils FTW!
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Ooooooh. I picked Carolina to knock you out in the final. Hee hee hee.
Jun '10
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I'm going with dumb luck, too. Plus--I agree on the pink logo. By the way, my screen name was taken, so look for me as KayBeeR.
Edited on Mar 15, 2011 at 1:25pmOct '10
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My picks are in!
May '10
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After much deep contemplation I'll predict Duke and Notre Dame in the final 2 with Duke winning. Duke because we'll be touring the Duke campus over spring break with our high school sophomore, and Notre Dame because my dad was an alum and the Notre Dame fight song is the first song I ever learned to sing.
The rest of our family also made their picks and we're putting them up on the fridge to compare as the tourney progresses. Too fun! Thanks, Ursula!
Oct '10
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Buckeyes have a tough path, but they will be victorious!
May '10
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KayBee
I'm going with dumb luck, too. Plus--I agree on the pink logo. By the way, my screen name was taken, so look for me as KayBeeR. · Mar 15 at 1:23pm
Edited on Mar 15 at 01:25 pm
Wait a minute. Somebody else registered as KayBee ahead of you? What's going on here? I call Shenanigans. Corruption at the highest level.
Jun '10
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On further thought, I think my strategy was just sheer stupidity--or maybe it was the BeeR.
Kennedy Smith
KayBee
I'm going with dumb luck, too. Plus--I agree on the pink logo. By the way, my screen name was taken, so look for me as KayBeeR. · Mar 15 at 1:23pm
Edited on Mar 15 at 01:25 pm
Wait a minute. Somebody else registered as KayBee ahead of you? What's going on here? I call Shenanigans. Corruption at the highest level. · Mar 15 at 3:25pm
Sep '10
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My picks are in. You're all going down.
Oct '10
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He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him!
Feb '11
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Just as you mentioned Ursula the best strategy is no strategy. Knowledge may get you further in the brackets, but it seems to always be the guy who just wings it that usually winds up winning,
Jul '10
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I'm in.
I read everything in the rules and couldn't find out the solution for the numerical answer for "Tiebreaker."
A simple explanation would have saved Me a headache.
I'm betting I'm not the only One Who just pressed "Submit Picks" and then got the explanation.
Bad luck All.
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Jimmy Carter: I'm in.
I read everything in the rules and couldn't find out the solution for the numerical answer for "Tiebreaker."
A simple explanation would have saved Me a headache.
I'm betting I'm not the only One Who just pressed "Submit Picks" and then got the explanation.
Bad luck All. · Mar 15 at 5:32pm
Ah, good point, JC. I meant to mention that. I was confused as well.
The "tiebreaker" # is your guess at the sum of the point total in the final game. In other words, you add your guess of the winning team's total point score to the runner up team's total point score. It suggested around 160 as the average (ex. final score for that total = 82-78). Does that help? I think you can go back and change anything in your picks up until Wed/Thurs.
May '10
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No strategy here, I don't watch or follow basketball. I don't know much more than the fact that the ball is bigger than a golf ball and the tournament is indoors so .... probably no weather delays. But the only way to enjoy the tournament is to join a pool - which has nothing to do with swimming.
Years ago I used to be in a (work) pool where one of the rules was that anyone who didn't pick at least one first round team lower than 10-seed was subjected to public scorn and ridicule. The only way to see/hear the scorn and ridicule was to join the pool, and it was definitely worth the price of admission. For some reason that rule has stuck with me and I must go with at least one 11 or worse.
Oh and I lived in Ann Arbor for enough years that I can't pick those Buckeyes. I didn't say they weren't good or that they won't win, just that I can't pick them :))
May '10
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I'm deflated. My husband found my picks on the printer and said, "You're going to lose". Somewhere in there was some cringing mixed with astonishment. So, apparently my strategy was sheer stupidity, too. I certainly can't blame it on beer.
There must be a way to cheat, don't you think? Pseudo said I'm going down. I can't be having a cat beat me.
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Andrea Ryan
I'm deflated. My husband found my picks on the printer and said, "You're going to lose". Somewhere in there was some cringing mixed with astonishment. So, apparently my strategy was sheer stupidity, too. I certainly can't blame it on beer.
There must be a way to cheat, don't you think? Pseudo said I'm going down. I can't be having a cat beat me. · Mar 15 at 8:22pm
You can change them until Thursday at 9:15 AM PT.
Oct '10
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Andrea Ryan
I'm deflated. My husband found my picks on the printer and said, "You're going to lose". Somewhere in there was some cringing mixed with astonishment. So, apparently my strategy was sheer stupidity, too. I certainly can't blame it on beer.
There must be a way to cheat, don't you think? Pseudo said I'm going down. I can't be having a cat beat me. · Mar 15 at 8:22pm
No worries, Andrea. I'll take the kitty out long before he has a shot at you. I'll chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares maelstrom and round perdition's flame before I give him up!
May '10
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Blue Yeti
Andrea Ryan
I'm deflated. My husband found my picks on the printer and said, "You're going to lose". Somewhere in there was some cringing mixed with astonishment. So, apparently my strategy was sheer stupidity, too. I certainly can't blame it on beer.
There must be a way to cheat, don't you think? Pseudo said I'm going down. I can't be having a cat beat me. · Mar 15 at 8:22pm
You can change them until Thursday at 9:15 AM PT. · Mar 15 at 9:40pm
OK, thank you. I changed them and now the cat's going down.