56 entries nationwide on ESPN picked all 16 winners yesterday. Wow. Wonder if any of them will get through today unscathed. Odds are pretty low.

Wonder how many have hacking skills.

Or how many different accounts they have entered into the contest.

That would take a LOT of accounts.

Just for yesterday, there were 65536 possible combinations of results. For the first round, there would be 4,294,967,296 possible outcomes.

Sure you could eliminate some of the games as "obvious" but which ones and how many??? There were some big upsets. Even if you elimiate a large number of the most obvious games, you're still at millions of combinations.

As for the entire tourney, there are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 possible combinations.

I don't think anyone will be setting up that many accounts, even with some hacking involved.

Watch out for New Mexico St vs. Mich St. That should be a good game. NMSU is a sleeper team. They had good player out for half the year and now that he's back the team has been rolling.

Well, it only took 2 games for us to fall back to the pack. :(

Sometimes the key to winning a group is to have the right matchup at the end and to correctly pick the winner of the final. I am sure many have Kansas over Kentucky in the final. But if it ends up being a different combo, there are fewer with the chance to win. I think I was the only one with UConn over UNC last year and I would have won had the score been reversed.

Do you have UConn over NC this yr too? Bwahahahaha! :D

PS - thanks for hooking me up yesterday, my bracket doesn't suck too bad.....yet. I'm in the upper part of the pack! But, it's early yet. :p

Couldn't find the NIT bracket. Maybe, BillyMac or BktBallRef did, though.

Or maybe the NCAAW bracket. I think the NIT bracket would be more entertaining to fill out, though.

And farther down we go!
 

I am t-2nd, and you're t-34. But with some of my PM picks today, I'll be dropping down.

Won't be an NIT if the field goes to 96 teams. Wish they had a .500 rule, though. Unless you win the conf tournament, you don't get in with a sub .500 conf record. Or maybe even one over .500.

Go Badgers. Never a doubt. :D

I'm still sitting with all of my Sweet 16 picks, although this is my worst first round ever.

Wofford?!? Are you kidding me? Illinois took care of them by 14 earlier in the season. And, after all, WI is such a better team because they also beat IL...er,...well,...1 out of 3 this season...

Never mind. :D

I'm perfect in the East, and I'll just leave it at that.