I keep beating myself. NEVER take a team that gives their coach a raise before his job is done.

+5
28-25-2

Right back where I started, sigh.

Thank you, Purdue, for fouling when you had no shot. Joey, how bout that middle?!!!

2-2 tonight -5
26-20-3 +160 overall

I phuckin hate Michigan State.

Me too.

LOL, I was ready to jump off a roof if they fouled one more time. I checked back to see what you bet it at, pretty funny. Still a horrendous Sweet 16 for me.

Just saw your twitter post. They make me ill. Every year they make a Tournament run and **** up my bracket. Other times I actually take them I lose. I hate Duke but they absolutely earned their victory tonight... however with the way Baylor is playing they will get steamrolled if they are so dependent on the top 3 like they were tonight.

11-13-4 +25

100 west virginia +170

110/100 K State -4

Baylor has gotten better with each tournament game and they're the first team Duke's played that has the size and athleticism to defend them at every position. Your guess at the line?

Yes, so Im saying I wont call in a bet for myself, I just keep eating his.

Duke 4, and the play is Baylor.

Baylor should be favored based on play but this is Duke and they are a number 1 seed. I would imagine Duke will be laying 3.

I have been waiting to bet against Duke the whole tourney. I had Texas A and M beating purdue and taking Duke out here (they would have!). Baylor will beat them.

Please disregard my previous post. :p

I would have made it Duke -4.5, I guess it came out at -4 according to PG.

My formula-generated lines for each game (a work in progress but getting close to polished, it's up to a 60% winning percentage over a sample size of 2,000 games with approximately 600 of those having a play at 3.5 points differing from the line):
Baylor/Duke -4.5 O/U 143.5
WV/Kentucky -6 O/U 138.5
Butler/K-State -7 O/U 135
Tennessee/Mich St +1.5 O/U 128

FWIW, the Sweet 16 lines it generated:
Tennessee/Ohio St -2 O/U 131
UNI/Michigan St -6 O/U 121
St Marys/Baylor -4 O/U 147
Duke/Purdue -8 O/U 132
Xavier/K-State -2.5 O/U 148
Butler/Syracuse -7 O/U 136
Cornell/Kentucky -12 O/U 149
Washington/West Virginia -3 141.5

Just ran the first round versus its results for shits and giggles (actual in parenthesis).
Kansas/Lehigh 86-64 (90-74)
Tenn/SDSU 68-61 (62-59)
UNLV/UNI 60-59 (66-69)
BYU/Florida 78-66 (99-92 2OT)
Butler/UTEP 63-63 (77-59)
Kansas St/N Texas 82-61 (82-62)
Vanderbilt/Murray St 73-67 (65-66)
Kentucky/ETSU 77-57 (100-71)
Marquette/Washington 68-77 (78-80)
New Mexico/Montana 75-62 (62-57)
Texas/Wake 71-67 (80-81 OT)
Baylor/SHSU 79-70 (68-59)
Notre Dame/Old Dominion 66-67 (50-51)
Richmond/St. Mary's 67-72 (71-80)
Georgetown/Ohio 76-68 (83-97)
Villanova/Rob Morris 77-60 (73-70)
Maryland/Houston 85-73 (89-77)
Michigan St./New Mex St. 77-70 (70-67)
Ohio St./UCSB 74-56 (68-51)
Okla St./Georgia Tech 67-69 (59-64)
Gonzaga/Florida St. 64-64 (67-60)
Pittsburgh/Oakland 74-66 (89-66)
Syracuse/Vermont 82-61 (79-56)
Xavier/Minnesota 75-68 (65-54)
Clemson/Missouri 68-70 (78-86)
Temple/Cornell 65-65 (65-78)
WV/Morgan 77-62 (77-50)
Wisconsin/Wofford 63-58 (53-49)
California/Louisville 78-71 (77-62)
Duke/AR PB 78-48 (73-44)
Purdue/Siena 67-64 (72-64)
Tex A&M/Utah St 67-62 (69-53)

Kansas State -3 1/2
110/100

Holy ****, can we have a Final Three? These two teams are pathetic. Butler has 18 turnovers and Gus Johnson says they're running a clinic. :wf

Yeah Butler!!!!!!!!!! Way To Go!!!!

That was fuc king pathetic. Can I get the right side of the bracket winner over the left side winner right now? Jesus Christ, what an imbalance.

Frank Martin is a fu cking moron. How the hell do you lose to a team with zero frontline that commits 19 turnovers? You might want to tell your guards to stop dribbling for eight hours and feed Curtis Kelly, you f ucking oversized suit wearing douchebag.

Eh, f*ck K-State. Who give a sh1t about them anyways. Nobody would remember next year if they made the Final Four, but they'll be talking about Butler coming home for 20.

I don't know how Butler does it, because on just about every metric they are pretty much mediocre, but they just WIN. And that's all that matters to me.

LOL, what a disaster this second week has been. This is what happens when you can't pick your spots. I should've packed it up after the first two rounds, but I'm a glutton for punishment.

-105
28-27-2

Kentucky -4
220/200

Obviously it's a great story, but it's terrible basketball IMO, so it's tough to get all mushy about it like with George Mason.

Yeah true, but I watched every televised minute of George Mason in '06 and they were entirely mediocre at times. Pretty much Every CBB team has flaws these days in the one and done era, and the gap has closed between big and small because of it.

Mason was brilliant in the tournament though. They beat an all-time UConn team, not to mention Michigan State and North Carolina, rather than a retarded Syracuse team missing its best inside scorer and a poorly coached, exhausted K-State.

Bizarro world: WV 0-10 from 2, 0-0 FT's, 7-12 from 3!

WVU 0-15 from 2, 8-15 from 3 at the half... and they're winning the game.
Don't think I've ever seen a stat line like that before.

They are super legit vs Mich St or Tenn. Both teams they can compete with and defeat.

On the flip side, UK 10-20 from 2, 0-8 from 3. Kentucky's 10 turnovers have killed them. 2nd foul on Cousins late could be a huge boost for WVU.

Make that a 3rd on an absolutely stupid play.

If Wall doesnt make it in the NBA he may have a future as a bull fighter with that ole defense...

No one does a look of disdain better than Huggins

What the hell is going on in this game?

When my wife is yelling "STOP SHOOTING 3'S!" at the TV, you know the coaches for UK are doing a crappy job.

Kentucky just keeps jacking threes, just like I keep betting the overs....like a dumbass...

If I hadn't bet UK, they'd be drilling them. FML.

-325
28-28-2

Scavs said Calipari knows how to coach now

The Butler, WV, Baylor, Tenn final 4 will do about the same ratings as the Turfway park debacle did today on the USA network

Jay Bilas is getting close to Billy Packer territory

Andre 3000 plays for WV?

This has potential to be an alltime choke...