A day late as I try to catch up from my week long biz trip – this is Thursday’s recap…
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Harvard’s L’in
March Madness is here… congrats to Jeremy Lin’s alma mater Harvard making the tourney for the first time since 1946. Also, the state of South Dakota finally puts a team in (SD State over another hopeful first-timer Illinois St) with Loyola, not of California, but of Maryland, making our tourney (they last made it in 1994– we started in 1995).
Heartbreak for Harvard
March Madness will be soon upon us, minus one hour for daylight savings. Well, the longest Division I tournament drought continues as Princeton beat Harvard on an incredible buzzer-beater in the one-game Ivy League playoff denying the Crimson an automatic bid (small chance they get in as an at-large considering the Ivy League has never had 2 teams in since the format expanded). UConn did the improbable, winning 5 games in 5 days to not only win the Big East conference title but also showed that kids can be forced to work long, unreasonable hours and need to unionize.
We will still have the Most Wins in Conference tiebreaker but when you submit your bracket, it won’t be accurate until Thursday (due to First Four games between at-large teams). Once we have everyone’s picks online, you can check to see how the First Four games tweaked your Most Wins in Conference. Of course, no one cares about this until the last weekend anyway, so this isn’t a big deal.
David will be in Seattle starting Sunday and I’ll be in Phoenix starting Thursday noon but we’ll try to keep delays to a minimum. The online bracket may not be up until Monday morning.
Harvard? Not yet…
As we head into the 2011 March Madness, it is possible the Harvard Crimson (eh?) may make the tournament. They have a share of the Ivy League title and if Princeton loses today (starts in 30 minutes, and is only on ESPN3.com), the Crimson are in. If not, then a one-game playoff on Saturday. Harvard?!
As for the 2011 HWCI NCAA Pool, no changes to format or point system. What will happen is that the First Four (games played on Tuesday/Wednesday) winners get inserted into the proper 64-team bracket (as the Opening Game winner has been since 2003). What may happen, is that depending who wins, you may want to update your bracket (likely the #11, #12, or #13 seed). Feel free to email the update (if it’s just one or two changes) rather than refilling a bracket before the deadline.
What will be interesting is that with TBS, TNT, and TruTV entering the mix, the schedule for Thursday-Sunday are wall-to-wall basketball, with games now separated by half-hours instead of starting 3-4 games at the same time, meaning, ideally, no games should end at the same time, so CBS has less of a chance of screwing it up. Full tip-off times are found here.