Basketball Selection Show

[KeithK]

Cornell takes it.

Obama agrees:

http://a.espncdn.com/media/pdf/100317/obama_bracket.pdf

Damn. I guess I have to root against us now! :-D :-P :-D

[Josh '99]

Cornell takes it.

Obama agrees:

http://a.espncdn.com/media/pdf/100317/obama_bracket.pdf

You know who else picked the team with all the white guys?

Hitler.

Think about it.

[sockralex]

Cornell takes it.

Obama agrees:

http://a.espncdn.com/media/pdf/100317/obama_bracket.pdf

You know who else picked the team with all the white guys?

Hitler.

Think about it.

Hmmm...Cornell...from Ithaca....likes to be called the Big Red... has a big "C" logo that looks like a sickle.  Communist!!!

[Chris '03]

Cornell takes it.

Obama agrees:

http://a.espncdn.com/media/pdf/100317/obama_bracket.pdf

This is totally off topic, but why is Northern Iowa the only school identified by mascot only on that bracket?

[Roy 82]

Don't know but it gives me a good excuse to again bring up teams whose mascot/name are inherently tied to the school name. In other words, you have to say the name of the school and the team for the choice of the team name to make sense. Examples:

UConn Huskies
Stetson Hatters
Harvard Sucks
and (almost) Buffalo Bulls

Can you come up with more examples?

[KeithK]

UConn Huskies

How so? What am I missing.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

UConn Huskies

How so? What am I missing.

Yukon Huskies.  I never noticed it until just now.

I've got another one that I doubt anybody here has heard of:  Poca, WV's teams are called the Dots.  Yes, that's right, the Poca Dots.

[ugarte]

UConn Huskies

How so? What am I missing.

Yukon Huskies.  I never noticed it until just now.

I've got another one that I doubt anybody here has heard of:  Poca, WV's teams are called the Dots.  Yes, that's right, the Poca Dots.

The Macon Whoopee

[Josh '99]

I was not aware that Stetson is the Hatters.  That's excellent.

[Weder]

Pleasant Hill (OR) High School's teams are the Pleasant Hill Billies.

[French Rage]

UConn Huskies

How so? What am I missing.

Yukon Huskies.  I never noticed it until just now.

I've got another one that I doubt anybody here has heard of:  Poca, WV's teams are called the Dots.  Yes, that's right, the Poca Dots.

Wait, so the entire state of Connecticut decided on their main public univeristy's mascot so it would make a random pun?

[jeff '84]

"Best Case/Worst Case" from Pat Forde of ESPN:

Temple (5)

Best Case: Saddled with an undeserved No. 5 seed, the 29-win Owls play like the 2/3-seed they should have been. Fran Dunphy shows why he should get more love for his sideline work. The balanced team plays unrelenting defense, and runs poised offense to beat Cornell and Wisconsin. Then, orchestrating a tempo that has helped hold 11 straight opponents to fewer than 60 points in regulation, Temple stuns top-seed Kentucky in the Sweet Sixteen. (Ancient fans celebrate payback for the last-second loss to the Wildcats in the 1958 Final Four.) By the time the Owls arrive where John Chaney could never take them -- the Final Four -- Dunphy's pushbroom mustache has become a national fad.

Worst Case: The Owls draw another underseeded team in cagey Cornell. Lavoy Allen gets in foul trouble, and Temple cannot handle Big Red big man Jeff Foote and is eliminated in its first game. Dunphy, whose NCAA tourney record drops to 1-8, gets grief about his outdated pushbroom mustache.
 
Cornell (12)

Best Case: Seasoned by two years of NCAA appearances and stung by their disrespectful No. 12 seed, the Big Red come out firing against Temple. Cornell gooses the tempo to its liking, Ryan Wittman sinks jumpers and Jeff Foote controls the middle. The school captures its first NCAA tournament victory -- and the first for the Ivy League since Princeton in 1998. Then Cornell takes down Wisconsin in the second round, and America falls in love with the Ivy League -- making its first Sweet Sixteen appearance since 1979. Egghead students leave the library in Ithaca for the short commute to Syracuse, where they see the Big Red push the Big Blue of Kentucky for 38 minutes before faltering.

Worst Case: The team that's played just five opponents in Ken Pomeroy's top 100 -- none since Jan. 6 -- isn't ready for Temple, which has played 16 such teams. The Owls get Foote into foul trouble and blanket Wittman on the perimeter. Cornell does what Ivy teams do: exit early. Egghead students retreat to the library until next winter.

[phillysportsfan]

Cornell takes it.

Obama agrees:

http://a.espncdn.com/media/pdf/100317/obama_bracket.pdf

I think this is a better bracket

[YankeeLobo]

Cornell takes it.

Obama agrees:

http://a.espncdn.com/media/pdf/100317/obama_bracket.pdf

You know who else picked the team with all the white guys?

Hitler.

Think about it.

Hmmm...Cornell...from Ithaca....likes to be called the Big Red... has a big "C" logo that looks like a sickle.  Communist!!!

Yeah, the school with the 'C' for Communist logo, also inviting one of our nation's most powerful Commies to give the Convocation speech.

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell takes it.

Obama agrees:

http://a.espncdn.com/media/pdf/100317/obama_bracket.pdf

You know who else picked the team with all the white guys?

Hitler.

Think about it.

Hmmm...Cornell...from Ithaca....likes to be called the Big Red... has a big "C" logo that looks like a sickle.  Communist!!!

Yeah, the school with the 'C' for Communist logo, also inviting one of our nation's most powerful Commies to give the Convocation speech.

You really are committed to making a jackass out of yourself here, aren't you.