2016 EBW Bracketology

#1

Can you believe we’ve been doing this for 9 years now? Yes, it’s time once again to watch 67 of the nation’s best college basketball teams end their seasons in bitter defeat for our entertainment! Even better, we can point to those teams and say, “I knew you were going to lose that game!” because we filled it out on a bracket ahead of time.

So, how do you play? If you’ve played with us in years past you just need to login at CBSSports.com and click onto our bracket game. If it’s been a few years you might have been purged from the system and need to rejoin.

If you’ve never played before, follow this link to join our pool:
http://ebwoot.mayhem.cbssports.com/e?ttag=BPM16_cpy_invite_returning
You’ll need to enter our group password to join, which is:
ebw
If you need to register for an account with CBSSports.com I strongly recommend for the purposes of this game that you not use your real name; instead, use the screenname we know you by here so we’ll know who we’re playing against. In fact, even if you already have an account with CBSSports.com, you may want to consider creating a second account for our game. As group manager I’ll see your account name as well as your email address. I promise to use those for no purpose other than contacting you for game-related purposes, which will generally be done through the CBSSports.com interface, if at all (keep in mind your participation in the game is subject to the CBS Interactive Terms of Use and Privacy Policy).

Sign up, join the group, and make your picks! Picks must be made by Noon EDT on Thursday, March 17. You can fill out 2 brackets, giving you the option to do one with your best guesses, and one where you follow your heart and imagine your 16-seed alma mater defies the odds and wins the tournament. Whatever you do, have fun! But try to join the honored ranks of our previous winners:

2015: SkekTek
2014: SkekTek
2013: Brian Morris
2012: Brian Morris
2011: kenney9226
2010: kenney9226
2009: Josh Forsythe
2008: Schrobblehead

Will this finally be pooflady’s year, consistently finishing in our top 3? How quickly will Kentucky’s John Calipari be looking to go to an NBA head coaching job? How many players will Duke’s Grayson Allen trip and will the refs notice? Stay tuned to see!

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#2

yay! thanks for doing this j^3!

#3

Yes, thanks j.

#4

will you still be thanking him if you come in 2nd yet again?

#5

Yes. Grudgingly, but yes.

#6

Help!!! Again!!! Every damn year.
I can’t figure out how to bring up a second bracket.

And
I can’t figure out how to bring up poofguy’s bracket.

#7

i just did this yesterday but i already forgot how. mabe when you’re looking at your first bracket, click on the “plus” sign under the pulldown menu for your bracket name (near the top of the page, next to “brackets 1 of 1 created”)?

prolly need to log out of cbssports and log back in under poofguy’s account info. mabe use a different browser if you don’t want to have to keep switching back and forth.

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#8

i just did this yesterday but i already forgot how. mabe when you’re looking at your first bracket, click on the “plus” sign under the pulldown menu for your bracket name (near the top of the page, next to “brackets 1 of 1 created”)?

That worked. And it’s pretty neat being able to import from another CBS site. I wish Meh’s was CBS.

#9

I hope there’s more than three or four of us playing.

#10

if you go to the full list of “standings” there are about a dozen different accounts that have picked a champeen so far.

#11

I filled in my bracket this evening. I’m skipping the office pool this year, but I won’t skip out on my Woot Friends.

#12

Good.

#13

They have to pay you to be with your officemates, but you choose to be with us!

#14

Almost missed it… but here to give it a go again this year!

Good luck all!

#15

Previous Results

2015
1 SkekTek (2) 111
2 Pooflady 100
3 Josephus 91
4 FrostByte 90
5 SkekTek 82
6 bestsportnascar 77
7 jessica alba 75
8 jqubed 74
9 poofguy 73
10 poofguy (2) 71
11 lucretius 70
12 Pooflady (2) 70
13 jqubed (2) 70
14 Barret LeBlanc 64
15 hotseventytwo chev 64
16 Josephus (2) 60
17 Turken 58
18 jessica alba (2) 58
19 Turken (2) 56
20 Michele Barnard 55
21 hotseventytwo chev (2) 44

2014
1 SkekTek 74
2 Pooflady 69
3 The Real Kenney9226 (2) 68
4 hotseventytwo chev 67
5 Pooflady (2) 63
6 jessica alba 61
7 MaggieS (2) 60
8 FrostByte 59
9 SkekTek (2) 56
10 Cruzer 55
11 MaggieS 54
11 The Real Kenney9226 54
13 jessica alba (2) 53
14 Turken (2) 51
15 poofguy 50
16 jqubed 46
17 Turken 45
18 hotseventytwo chev (2) 39
19 jqubed (2) 36

2013
1 Brian Morris 120
2 Pooflady 115
3 Brian Morris (2) 113
4 jessica alba 106
5 Josephus 75
6 Cruzer 65
7 jessica alba (2) 64
8 Pooflady (2) 63
8 SkekTek (2) 63
10 SkekTek 57
11 jqubed 54
12 poofguy 53
12 Turken 53
14 jqubed (2) 52
15 The Real Kenney9226 50
16 Josephus (2) 47
16 Turken (2) 47
18 Tennisplayer121 46

2012
1 Brian Morris
2 Turken (1)
3 Pooflady
4 The Real Kenney9226
5 Novastarj
6 Cruzer
7 Turken (2)
8 Patti Fuller
9 jessica alba
10 jqubed (1)
11 jqubed (2)

2011
1 Kenney
2 Skek
3 Daniel

2010
1 Kenney

2009
1 Josh Forsythe
2 The Real Kenney9226 (2)
3 Cruzer
4 Michele Barnard
5 Pooflady
6 SkekTek
7 jqubed
8 Melis62
9 jessica alba
10 lp lady
11 Schrobblehead
12 The Real Kenney9226 (1)
13 Joe Barnard
14 pamidalab
15 logos54796

2008
1 Schrobblehead 148
2 Josh Forsythe 138
3 Pooflady 136
4 Daniel Spltiter 124
5 krapposelli 103
6 luke lurker 91
7 The Real Kenney9226 81
8 SkekTek 78
9 Cruzer 64
10 jqubed 63
11 Zea Three 43
12 Melis62 0

#16

kind of a sparse year.

#17

Standings
Rank

Team Name

Score

Correct

Best Score

Best Correct

Champion
1 bestsportnascar 0 0 192 63 N. Carolina (121)
1 Brian Morris 0 0 192 63 N. Carolina (150)
1 FrostByte 0 0 192 63 Michigan St. (171)
1 hotseventytwo chev 0 0 192 63 W. Virginia (115)
1 Jennifer Lawrence 0 0 192 63 Kansas (110)
1 Jennifer Lawrence (2) 0 0 192 63 Oklahoma (110)
1 Josephus 0 0 192 63 Virginia (160)
1 jqubed 0 0 192 63 Kansas (161)
1 jqubed (2) 0 0 192 63 N. Carolina (161)
1 lucretius 0 0 192 63 Utah (140)
1 MaggieS 0 0 192 63 Virginia (123)
1 MaggieS (2) 0 0 192 63 N. Carolina (124)
1 Melis62 0 0 192 63 Oregon (153)
1 Michele Barnard 0 0 192 63 Oregon (111)
1 Pooflady 0 0 192 63 Michigan St. (147)
1 Pooflady (2) 0 0 192 63 Kansas (152)
1 SkekTek 0 0 192 63 Michigan St. (123)
1 SkekTek (2) 0 0 192 63 Purdue (165)
1 The Real Kenney9226 0 0 192 63 Kansas (146)
20 A Katz 0 0 0 0
20 adq 0 0 0 0
20 Barret LeBlanc 0 0 0 0
20 Betsy Thomas 0 0 0 0
20 Bonita Alford 0 0 0 0
20 Cruzer 0 0 0 0
20 Daniel Spltiter 0 0 0 0
20 Heidi Cook 0 0 0 0
20 Jason Novarr 0 0 0 0
20 Josh Forsythe 0 0 0 0
20 Kerry Hough 0 0 0 0
20 krapposelli 0 0 0 0
20 logos54796 0 0 0 0
20 lp lady 0 0 0 0
20 luke lurker 0 0 0 0
20 pamidalab 0 0 0 0
20 poofguy 0 0 0 0
20 Schrobblehead 0 0 0 0
20 Tennisplayer121 0 0 0 0
20 Turken 0 0 0 0
20 Zea Three 0 0 0 0
Report Updated as of 03/17/16 01:47 pm ET

woo hoo! tied for 1st!

#18

Keep up the good work.

#19

Standings
Rank

Team Name

Score

Correct

Best Score

Best Correct

Champion
1 bestsportnascar 2 2 192 63 N. Carolina (121)
1 Brian Morris 2 2 192 63 N. Carolina (150)
1 Jennifer Lawrence 2 2 192 63 Kansas (110)
1 Jennifer Lawrence (2) 2 2 192 63 Oklahoma (110)
1 Josephus 2 2 192 63 Virginia (160)
1 jqubed (2) 2 2 192 63 N. Carolina (161)
1 lucretius 2 2 192 63 Utah (140)
1 MaggieS 2 2 192 63 Virginia (123)
1 Melis62 2 2 192 63 Oregon (153)
1 Pooflady 2 2 192 63 Michigan St. (147)
1 SkekTek 2 2 192 63 Michigan St. (123)
1 The Real Kenney9226 2 2 192 63 Kansas (146)
13 FrostByte 1 1 191 62 Michigan St. (171)
13 hotseventytwo chev 1 1 191 62 W. Virginia (115)
13 jqubed 1 1 191 62 Kansas (161)
13 MaggieS (2) 1 1 191 62 N. Carolina (124)
13 Pooflady (2) 1 1 185 60 Kansas (152)
13 SkekTek (2) 1 1 191 62 Purdue (165)
19 Michele Barnard 0 0 190 61 Oregon (111)

TAKE THAT POOFLADY (2)!

#20

Wait, how did that happen? I call shenanigans.