March Madness picks thread

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Originally Posted by dalakhani

Boys...I am in awe. Well done.

Am I right in fading the ACC ?

I wouldn't have said so before the ACC tourney, but now I say yeah.

Originally Posted by philcski

The one thing I did really well this year was place the protected seeds. Had 10 of the 16 in the right pods (and the committee did a really good job of placing them geographically.)

Final results:
64/65 teams
24 exact seeds
56/65 within 1 seed

In my honest opinion- Cal and ND were WAY overseeded, and UNI, Tennessee, and SDSU were way underseeded. Thoughts?

Nice work. You had the harder job of seeding everyone, I just picked the ins and outs (better than Lunardi, ahem).

I agree on all counts, except maybe SDSU. As for Notre Dame, the committee traditionally gives a ton of weight to Big East tourney runs for some reason (remember in '06 when Syracuse came into MSG out of the tourney, ran the table and ended up with a 5-seed). Georgetown is a little overseeded as a 3 as well IMO. I actually like Cal to beat Louisville, but they didn't deserve an 8.