In February of 2010, Bo and I had a death pool draft, which he wrote up here: http://theparentsbasement.com/2010/02/11/2010-death-pool-draft/ Now, I must first admit that it is completely unfair of me to score it like this because technically only 2010 deaths should count. But fuck it. I’m going to take every single point anyway. The main [...]

Long layoff here at TPB, and no one will read this before the real bracket comes out, but have to post my mock just so it’s on the record. Worst bubble in years, going to be interesting to see what criteria they use to separate the bubble. My last four in are Illinois, Penn St., [...]

I knew the gods would someday send me a message that the Basement needed to come out of hibernation, but I did not expect it to be this obvious. The column Bill Simmons wrote last week was pretty much a burning fucking bush. He has pulled some painfully dumb stuff out of his ass in [...]

Bill Simmons has been pissing me off for months now. He speaks like an authority about shit he knows very little about, including the fucking Kennedy assassination, but the one thing that pisses me off most is when he talks about college basketball. He doesn’t just state his opinions, but he actually mocks people like [...]

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 [...]

Well, we’ve reached the end of the line here on our picks. I’m pretty sure I gained ground on Bo yesterday, so at least I have a heartbeat going into the weekend. And by the way, fuck you, Weber State. Thanks for choking away points from me. ACC 1st Round: UVA over BC, Wake over [...]

Big 12 1st Round: Colorado over Texas Tech, Missouri over Nebraska, Oklahoma State over Oklahoma, Texas over Iowa State 2nd Round: Kansas over Colorado, Missouri over Texas A&M, Oklahoma State over K-State, Texas over Baylor Semifinals: Kansas over Missouri, Oklahoma State over Texas Finals: Kansas over Oklahoma State Thoughts: Kansas is the best team in [...]

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. [...]

MEAC 1st Round: Howard over NC A&T, UMES over Coppin State, Bethune Cookman over FAMU 2nd Round: Morgan State over Howard, Norfolk State over Hampton, UMES over South Carolina State, Delaware State over Bethune Cookman Semifinals: Norfolk State over Morgan State, Delaware State over UMES Finals: Delaware State over Norfolk State Thoughts: Let’s go Hornets!!!!!!! [...]

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 [...]

I fucked up. I didn’t get a chance to get my picks up yesterday. The only way to rectify this without either throwing out the four tournaments that started Saturday or giving Bo an insurmountable advantage was for me to blindly pick all of the favorites in those conferences. This, of course, is all the way through, and not [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]