Well, it looks like the UCTPE championship belt is going to be changing hands come Sunday afternoon, as I’m sitting on a sizable 341-293 lead, with a lot of seeds still with a chance to sprout. The biggest swing in my favor yesterday was the Minnesota win over Michigan St. in the Big Ten tourney, [...]

Pat chipped away at the lead a little bit yesterday and added another champion to his belt when Robert Morris beat Quinnipiac in the NEC final. The score now stands at 206-179 with the majority of the points available still to be awarded. And the performance by Montana’s Anthony Johnson last night was awesome and [...]

Three championships were decided last night, with Butler winning the Horizon league, Oakland winning the Summit and North Texas beating Troy in the Sun Belt. Pat and I both got bonus points for picking Butler, but Pat lost an opportunity in the Sun Belt after selling his soul to Troy for the second straight year. [...]

Well this has definitely been a less enthusiastic edition of the UCTPE but that’s alright because we renewed the domain name yesterday so all is well at The Basement. Before I get to the standings update, I just wanted to point out that as much as Pat pretends to hate picking against Troy, there’s this [...]

The next round of tourneys start today, including the Big East, and with the slew of 3-point conferences opening up soon, the picks get more important. A standings update will follow this post, but I’ve got a sizable lead over Pat that is by no means insurmountable with the vast majority of points still up [...]

MAC (1-pointer)
1st Round: #7 Western Michigan over #10 Bowling Green, #6 Eastern Michigan over #11 Northern Illinois, #9 Ohio over #8 Ball St., #5 Buffalo over #12 Toledo
Quarters: Western Michigan over #2 Central Michigan, #3 Akron over E. Michigan, #1 Kent St. over Ohio, #4 Miami (OH) over Buffalo
Semis: Akron over Western Michigan, Kent St. [...]

America East (1-pointer)
1st  round – #1 Stony Brook over #8 Albany, #4 Boston U. over #5 Hartford, #3 Maine over #6 New Hampshire, #2 Vermont over #7 UMBC.
Semis: BU over Stony Brook, Vermont over Maine
Champion: Vermont
Once a Coppenrath fan, always a Coppenrath fan.
Summit (1-pointer)
First round: #1 Oakland over #8 UMKC, #5 IPFW over #4 South [...]

Four more conferences to pick before tonight, all 2-point conferences.
Ohio Valley (2-pointer)
Semis: #1 Murray State over #4 Eastern Illinois, #2 Morehead St. over #6 Tennessee Tech
Champion: Murray State
We missed the first round of this tourney, but don’t worry about it, you didn’t miss anything. Looks to me like Murray State is the clear class of [...]

Southern (2-pointer)
Opening round: #3 Davidson over #6 Elon, #4 UNC-Greensboro over #5 Furman, #4 Citadel over #5 Samford, #3 Chattanooga over #6 Georgia Southern
Quarters: Davdison over #2 WCU, #1 Wofford over UNC-G, Citadel over #1 Appalachian State, #2 College of Charleston over Chattanooga
Semis: Wofford over Davdison, C of C over Citadel
Champion: Wofford
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Not worth updating the scoreboard yet, though the Patriot League was not kind to me.
Big South (1-pointer)
Semis: #1 Coastal Carolina over #4 UNC-Asheville, #3 Winthrop over #2 Radford
Champion: Coastal Carolina
Thoughts: We missed the first round of this tourney but it went all chalk so I’m fine with that. Coastal Carolina continues chalk cheese corduroy chapter [...]

Ladie-, well probably more like just gentlemen, the best time of year at TPB has finally arrived (two days ago). It’s time for the Ultimate Conference Tourney Pick’em (fuck exclamation points). If you need a refresher course on the rules, click here. Pat and I will be going head-to-head, picking every game of every conference [...]

Well, if you’re at all familiar with the Basement’s track record then you know two things. First, we tend to be a bit lazy in our promptness. So in the vain of posting our NFL predictions after week 1 had already been played, it’s time to present to you the 2010 Parents’ Basement death pool [...]

NFC East
Philadelphia Eagles (12-4) – The Eagles are a team that usually gets stronger as the season goes on, and I think they’re set up to do that even moreso this year. It will probably take some game experience for Andy Reid and offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg to figure out the best way to use [...]

So last Wednesday night on the eve of the NFL season opener I went through and picked every game on the NFL schedule just to whet my whistle. Of course, the other point of doing it was to prepare myself for the all-important Parents’ Basement NFL preview, but then I figured it would only be [...]

Well it’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything, and I was ready to post something last week until the Francouer trade went through and I went into a deep depression that I’m only now coming out of. While the public treatment of Minaya as a GM infuriates Pat, it’s slightly different for me [...]