2019 Rajah March Madness Bracket

[BigAl]

Anybody want to do this again? I can set it up this weekend if people are interested. Picks can be made after Selection Sunday on 3/17, brackets lock when the first games start on 3/21.

How to join:
Go to the ESPN Tournament Challenge website (http://fantasy.espn.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2019/en/groupfind)
Log into ESPN
Click on the 'my groups' tab near the top of the page and select 'create or join a group'
Scroll halfway down the page and find the 'search groups' box
Search for the group 'Rajah 2019'
When the result comes up, click on the group name
That will take you to a different page, click on 'join group'
Enter the password: Rajah2019

[MTR]

I am down to play

[Kneeneighbor]

I suck at these but I am in.

[Bagel]

Haven't followed college basketball this year but sure I'll do this.

[Randolph]

I will do it and it will be glorious

[Kdestiny]

In

[Pablo Diablo]

Yeah I'm in.

[Chris Scott]

IN

[BigAl]

I had a chance to set this up on lunch break.

Go to the ESPN Tournament Challenge website (http://fantasy.espn.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2019/en/groupfind)
Log into ESPN
Click on the 'my groups' tab near the top of the page and select 'create or join a group'
Scroll halfway down the page and find the 'search groups' box
Search for the group 'Rajah 2019'
When the result comes up, click on the group name
That will take you to a different page, click on 'join group'
Enter the password: Rajah2019

Any problems, let me know.

[Bagel]

Alright, I'm officially there. Finally figured out how to follow your instructions.

[Fro]

bump

[Kneeneighbor]

Just filled mine in

[MTR]

Yeah I know I am not going to win but I couldn't resist being a bit of a homer with some picks.

[Reveille]

picked mine

We should do a NIT bracket too so I can be a homer as well and pick the razorbacks to win it all.

Gafford is sitting out and picking out an agent. Pretty sad day when ur football team loses more games in one season than they have in their 100+ year history and your basketball team has no chance of even getting past the first round of the NIT.

[Honey_Badger]

I’m in.

[Pablo Diablo]

Just did my bracket.

[Simmo Fortyone]

Anybody want to do this again? I can set it up this weekend if people are interested. Picks can be made after Selection Sunday on 3/17, brackets lock when the first games start on 3/21.

How to join:
Go to the ESPN Tournament Challenge website (http://fantasy.espn.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2019/en/groupfind)
Log into ESPN
Click on the 'my groups' tab near the top of the page and select 'create or join a group'
Scroll halfway down the page and find the 'search groups' box
Search for the group 'Rajah 2019'
When the result comes up, click on the group name
That will take you to a different page, click on 'join group'
Enter the password: Rajah2019
There's no Join Group option on the page. Am I too late?

-edit- nvm, had to start creating a bracket first then it let me join

[Simmo Fortyone]

I picked my bracket by going to each college's list of alumni on Wikipedia, picking their coolest alumni, and then going head-to-head on that.

The alumni I chose for each...
Duke - Ken Jeong
ND State - Bob Backlund
NC Central - Sam Jones (Flash Gordon)
VCU Rams - Patch Adams
UCF - Daniel Tosh
Mississippi State - Dak Prescott
Liberty - Sam Ponder
Virginia Tech - Michael Vick
St Louis - James Gunn
Maryland - Larry David
Belmont - Trisha Yearwood
Temple - Hall & Oates
LSU - Shaq
Yale - Henry Winkler
Louisville - Johnny Unitas
Minnesota - Ric Flair
Michigan State - Magic Johnson
Bradley - Neil Flynn

Gonzaga - Bing Crosby
Fairleigh - no one
Prairie View - Mr T
Syracuse - Lou Reed
Baylor - Willie Nelson
Marquette - Chris Farley
Murray State - Jim Varney
Florida State - Burt Reynolds
Vermont - Ben Affleck
Buffalo - Ronnie James Dio
St Johns - J Cole
Arizona State - Reggie Jackson
Texas Tech - John Denver
Northern Kentucky - George Clooney
Nevada - Gina Carano
Florida - Emmitt Smith
Michigan - Iggy Pop
Montana - J K Simmons

Virginia - Tina Fey
Gardner-Webb - Sara McMann
Ole Miss - John Grisham
Oklahoma - Blake Griffin
Wisconsin - Jim Lovell
Oregon - Chael Sonnen
Kansas State - Kirstie Alley
UC Irvine - Jon Lovitz
Villanova - Bradley Cooper
St Marys - Matthew Dellavedova
Purdue - Neil Armstrong
Old Dominion - Ben Bailey (host of Cash Cab)
Cincinnati - Sandy Koufax
Iowa - Gene Wilder
Tennesssee - Lou Albano
Colgate - Jay Chandrasekhar

NC - Michael Jordan
Iona - Don McLean
Utah State - no one cool, all nerds
Washington - Bruce Lee
Auburn - Lionel Ritchie
NM State - no one cool
Kansas - Paul Rudd
Northeastern - LL Cool J
Iowa State - no one cool
Ohio State - Jesse Owens
Houston - Hakeem Olajuwan
Georgia State - Ludacris
Wofford - no one cool
Seton Hall - Max Weinberg
Kentucky - Miss Elizabeth
Abilene - Randall Cobb

[Pablo Diablo]

Now that's what we call high tier commitment.

[davedjhon]

I will surely try this

[Chris Scott]

Wolverines for me.

[Fro]

I'm pleased to see that I'm the only one with Virginia winning it all.

[Pablo Diablo]

I felt very Chalky this bracket.

[Fro]

I felt very Chalky this bracket.

Same. I don't watch college basketball until the tournament so I don't know shit. I started with the all-chalk bracket and then made a handful of modifications.

[Kneeneighbor]

Golden Gophers shooting the lights out.

[Kneeneighbor]

Virginia down at half.

[Matthew]

they are cursed

[Fro]

they will win this game and then win the whole tournament

[Matthew]

you cray

[Fro]

they ended up doubling the other team's score in the second half

as they should as a 1 seed

onto the next

[Matthew]

they ain't making it to the final four

[Fro]

The LSU/Maryland game was awesome and the winning layup was smooth as fuck

[Pablo Diablo]

Hurts my bracket. I had gambled on Maryland being a dark horse.

[Simmo Fortyone]

Starting to wonder if my strategy had a few holes in it

[Simmo Fortyone]

Good lord, that Duke/UCF finish

[BigAl]

Apparently Duke thought I needed a few more white hairs in my beard.

[Pablo Diablo]

Hah. Imagine you're a Duke and Raptor fan.

Today was a day. Granted if I had to take the luck from the Raptors for Duke to win I would do it again every day since a regular season game matters not compared to a tournament game. But man crazy day of finishes for me.

[soxfanatic]

They should have just gone straight to the Sweet 16. A real lack of upsets.

[Randolph]

HOLY SHEET! WE WIN! MSU BABY! FUCK ZION AND THAT CONSTANT ESPN HYPE! WE GOIN'. NOT THEM!

https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7aD7YmiKFVAlMJlC/giphy.gif

[Reveille]

wow i went from 14 of 16 in sweet 16, to zero in the final four in one weekend

[Simmo Fortyone]

Fucking hell, that Michigan State/Duke game. Duke not having enough fouls to send them to the line, and then trying to miss the last foul shot and the bloody thing went in. Absolute fucking madness.

This tournament has had some mental finishes. Really looking forward to the Final Four games.

[Matthew]

poor zion

[Fro]

who is Terrie's Tournament Take?

[Randolph]

My mother.

[Fro]

My mother.

Not sure if serious

[Randolph]

Very serious She is a tourney afficianado and asked me if she could join a tourney group I was in. This was the only one I was in, so she is in.

[Fro]

https://media.giphy.com/media/TQh3nVXVx9Xlm/giphy.gif

[Fro]

they will win this game and then win the whole tournament

this post has aged very well. shout out to me for riding Virginia to a Rajah March Madness Bracket Championship when everyone else doubted them.

[Matthew]

yea. i was sort of wrong

COME ON TEXAS TECH

DO IT FOR BOBBY KNIGHT

[Fro]

I am the best at the basketball predictions.

[Pablo Diablo]

Good win Fro.

Shit bracket for me.

[Randolph]

My mother got 3rd. I got 5th. Damnit.