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The NCAA Selection Committee has just released the 65 teams chosen for the NCAA March Madness Basketball Tournament.
NCAA March Madness Printable Tournament Brackets 2010 PDF
(click on link to download)
Congratulations to all the teams, and the Kansas Jayhawks for the overall #1 seed.
With the brackets announced, we’re ready to go with March Madness, so below are a few fun polls for you to answer. You can also share these with your friends by each poll or for the entire blog post. Please use the “Share” buttons as you see with each poll or at the bottom, respectively. You’ll only be able to vote once since the polls are blocked by cookies, unless you cheat and do some techie fix on your machine. As a result, I can leave some polls for the entire tournament! I will add more as results come in and new match ups appear, and close out some that no longer apply.
You can see the voting results by clicking on View Results for each poll. The first bunch of people will have to come back to see more meaningful results as the numbers pile up.
Pending numbers I get by late Wednesday, I will enter at least one bracket with some recommendations by the votes here. Call it guidance by the wisdom of crowds. You can play online at the NCAA site or at the ESPN site, among the many out there. Get info on each team with one-click via ESPN’s brackets page.
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To start, the biggest question is who will win? To keep things manageable and practical, I will limit it to the top 4 teams in each bracket and a few votes for lower ranked teams by ranking.
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Personally, I will use the results here by rank as a guide to construct some wallpapers for various schools in the upcoming weeks so there’s just a little at stake for me here.
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Of course, upsets are what makes March Madness so fun. So let’s start with the #1 teams.
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What about the #2 teams?
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And the top 4 teams (in each bracket) NOT making the Sweet 16?
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There is usually at least one #12 over #5 upset in the first round. You can pick as many answers as you think apply.
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How’s about the #10 and #11 team upsets?
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Any teams #13 and below you expect to win in the first round for a bigger upset?
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And let’s not forget the #8 and #9 teams which are the closest match-ups, but not always the closest games for some reason.
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Which #1 seed would you least like to see win?
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And to round out the business…
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Any other thoughts, advice or comments you’d like to share? Maybe a “Cinderella” team? There are too many teams for me to poll, and too vague a definition of how far one needs to go to be called a “Cinderella”. Maybe I can poll that later once a few team emerges, if a few team emerges.
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THANK YOU!