Binghamton bearcat will mock you and take your $

Welcome to the Loser Challenge. We have 11 entrants, for a split of $35 and $20 to first and second. (Apparently I had to compete against a bunch of bracket pools and suffered losses as a few regulars jetted off to give their money to Las Vegas instead of here.)

In any case, picks in general were more aggressive than I thought they would be. Daniel of the Sun is our pre-tip leader. That is, if his picks all lose, he wins. Granted Dan the Man picked 41 teams (out of a maximum of 48). In fact, as a group we picked 45% of all the teams in the tournament even though just 1 slip up would kick us out. On the other end of the spectrum is Brokeback Alex, who would need to have all his picks lose AS WELL as have all other 10 contestants be eliminated. Hmmm. This is indeed a tough pool, I say.

Note that there are 4 teams that are charity bombs. That is, if they make the sweet 16, we all lose because we all picked them. Morehead St., Cal St. Northridge, E. Tennessee St., and Binghamton. Suggestions are still being accepted for where the charity $ would go.

By the way, for those of you gung-ho enough to pick #7,10, and 15 seeds in the same box - assuming that the #2 will make the sweet 16: just wanted to let you know that over the past 10 years, onlt 50% of #2 seeds made the sweet 16. Have a nice day.

Good Luck!
Poolmaster