Join the CougCenter Bracket Challenge!

by Jeff Nusser on Mar 15, 2009 4:00 PM PDT in College Basketball

Now that the brackets have been unveiled -- and while we wait to find out the Cougs' fate for the postseason -- it's time to take the ultimate challenge: Proving you're smarter than us.

Join the CougCenter Bracket Challenge at Yahoo! -- a group specially limited to the members of CougCenter. Here's how you do it:

Click on this link.
Sign in, or sign up for a Yahoo! account if you don't have one.
Create an entry and -- THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT -- title it with your handle on CougCenter. (My entry, for example, is called "Nuss" and Craig's is called "Dancing Football.")
Make your picks.

The reason we want you to title it with your CougCenter handle is because we're going to post the standings throughout each day and into the night for all to see here on the blog, and it's better if everyone knows who everyone is in the standings. Much better for talking trash, you know?

I wish I could say I can offer prizes, but who am I kidding -- I'm a teacher in a district that's going to be laying off hundreds of teachers, so it ain't happening. But what you will get is the recognition from all of us for your basketball knowledge/luck that you so richly deserve.

If you want to join in but haven't joined CougCenter yet, just join the blog by clicking that little "Start Posting Now" button right under our logo. Create a name, then create your bracket and you're good to go. If there are any brackets in there that I can't match up with a CougCenter member, I'll be deleting them.

It's a lot of fun -- we did it last year on my previous blog. I finished ninth out of 23 people, proving once and for all that I, in fact, do not know everything. (Just don't tell my wife.) Johnnycougar was in there, placing 11th. And I'm sure others of you who followed me over here were in there, too.

Join us!

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Was just gonna ask if you were gonna do this

Cool.

by J.J. FeKl on Mar 15, 2009 4:01 PM PDT reply actions

I suck at these, but...

it should be fun :)

by james_WSU on Mar 15, 2009 5:37 PM PDT reply actions

Every one sucks at them!

I had a year where I won every bracket I was in and was in the 99th percentile nationally. I thought I was awesome. The next year I didn’t win anything and was in the 64th percentile. It is a crapshoot to some extent.

This is where per game statistics go to die.

CougCenter

by Craig Powers on Mar 15, 2009 5:41 PM PDT up reply actions

Usually I just guess, but now i'm using head lol

I’m at Kenpom and trying to see how big the gap is and maybe if a team is going to be particularly weak against a certain match up lol

by james_WSU on Mar 15, 2009 5:46 PM PDT reply actions

A few years ago

I was a perfect 16-16 on the first day. I was so excited, but before the weekend was over I lost a final four team and three elite 8 teams. How quickly my hopes were grounded…

by peaty411s on Mar 15, 2009 5:48 PM PDT reply actions

Keeping the elite eight/final four teams intact are key

That is where you get the puntos!

This is where per game statistics go to die.

CougCenter

by Craig Powers on Mar 15, 2009 5:54 PM PDT up reply actions

yea, i'm stuck with Wake and Louisville now...

Wake has height and speed, while Lousiville has their D… decisions, decisions… might as well go for the higher seed i guess?

by james_WSU on Mar 15, 2009 5:56 PM PDT up reply actions

k, i lost my patience and now i'm just choosing off of instinct lol

by james_WSU on Mar 15, 2009 5:58 PM PDT up reply actions

me too

I always have to make a few brackets: one where it’s just gut reaction, one where I actually do research, one where a particular conference impressed me so I pick them a lot, and one just full of upsets.

Tony Bennett for Heisman!

by johnnycougar on Mar 15, 2009 7:18 PM PDT up reply actions

I may be wrong, but it always seems like day one of the tourney is chalky and day two is nuts.

And That Happened: Sports with a Hint of Sarcasm

by philkid3 on Mar 15, 2009 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions

I'll add a prize if that is alright Nuss? Don't want to get anybody in trouble...

For the winner – their choice of a Sonics replica jersey of either Flip Murray or Brent “Bones” Barry. Disclaimer: Prize will have to be picked up at a mutually agreed upon location in the Greater Seattle Area and size is not negotiable – as I only have one of each. Murray is a medium and Bones is a large (sorry for the majority of us that don’t fit the measurements but I’m sure you all can be creative or just stick it in your closet like I am currently doing). ;-)

Oh, and on top of this, the winner can have a DVD copy of the ’09 Senior Day game versus Arizona State with the crazy Rochestie winner from deep. Quality is nothing to write home about, but all commercials are edited out and it looks better than a VHS.

by LeaveItToWeaver on Mar 15, 2009 9:38 PM PDT reply actions