Madness Update
3/12/2007
A new season. I'll have the pick entry open this evening. You may have
noticed I've added several rss news feeds which update constantly to keep you brainiacs
informed. (If they don't update, that's because ESPN or whoever is not updating their feed.)
I hope to also have this page (updates.rss) posting rss updates so you can get them yourself in
your preferred newsreader.
Oh, almost forgot. You can now get to my Madness site from
http://www.gavenda.com. This should be easier to
remember or write down or enter into your cell phone browser. It just redirects to the
same old page here.
4/2/2006
Well, congratulations Joe Friday. I have been asked if this is the most unpredicted
of all the madnesses. I don't know. But some interesting tidbits: Not a single
player out of the 68 had the champion picked, and this was known before the Final
Four. I'm pretty sure this hasn't happened before. Also, the winning total of
97 points (no body is going to pick up anything tomorrow night) may not have
been the lowest total to win, and not that far from the top in some other years.
However, in 2001 that would have barely been on the first page of the leader
board--27th place to be precise.
3/26/2006
I may have made a mistake entering George Mason's surprising victory; I may
have been a step ahead of myself and given credit for their Regional Final
game before I gave them credit for their regional semi-final game. Would make
maybe a point difference, but if you are battling for top spot that might make
a difference. This total may have been wrong for a day. But you know what?
Nobody picked them so it don't matter none.
3/12/2006
Wow, a whole year went by and I never updated the "update" page.
Oh well. This bracket
from the NCAA doesn't have the teams filled in yet. And notice that I've
put up some historical archives for those of you who want to trace the history
of your picks.