ESPN Tournament Challenge

[Nevadaref]

1. Of a possible 1,680 points, Pleasant has 1,660. He's missed about five games in the whole tournament.

2. Luck played a part. Pleasant temporarily confused George Mason with George Washington when selecting his winners.

3. Pleasant, a software test engineer at CSG Systems Inc., grew up a Husker fan in Omaha and always followed college basketball closely. He entered his first office pool a year ago. He didn't win. This time around, he decided to enter the ESPN pool.


1. Ok, let's set this straight. First the author of the article has no clue about college basketball either. He didn't even do enough research to get the points in the contest correct. Right now, Mr. Pleasant has 1060 points out of a possible 1280 through the first four rounds. There are 1680 points possible in the entire event. If Mr. Pleasant is correct on the final three games he will finish with 1460 not 1660. BTW so far he has missed 13 games by my count.

2. He has "always followed college basketball closely", yet he doesn't know George Mason from George Washington.

3. Last year was his first time filling out brackets? Did he follow college basketball from a cave? This is not a new phenomenon.

Please let someone else win this thing!

[26 Year Gap]

So the writer flunked remedial math. What's the big deal?