Pat: 91, 30 yesterday (1 America East, 3 Atlantic Sun, 2 Big SKy, 0 Big South, 4 CAA, 2 Horizon, 6 MAAC, 3 MVC, 0 Ohio Valley, 3 Southern, 2 Summit, 4 WCC) Bo: 78, 28 yesterday (1 America East, 0 Atlantic Sun, 0 Big Sky, 0 Big South, 6 CAA, 4 Horizon, 8 MAAC, [...]

Pat:  61 points, 29 last night (0 America East, 2 Atlantic Sun, 6 CAA, 4 Horizon, 0 MAAC, 9 MVC, 1 Ohio Valley, 3 Southern, 4 WCC) Bo:  50, 25 last night (0 America East, 0 Atlantic Sun, 2 CAA, 4 Horizon, 2 MAAC, 12 MVC, 0 Ohio Valley, 3 Southern, 2 WCC) Thoughts: Pat [...]

Big Sky First round: Idaho State over Northern Colorado, Montana over Montana State Semifinals: Weber State over Northern Colorado, Portland State over Montana Champion: Portland State Random Thoughts: I was thrilled when Portland State beat a top 3 most annoying team in College Basketball, Gonzaga, so I’m going to support them here. I also like [...]

Two more tourneys begin tomorrow so I’ll get the picks in now.  Big Sky (2 points) 1st Round: #4 Northern Colorado over #4 Idaho St., #3 Montana over #6 Montana St. Semi’s: #1 Weber St. over No. Colorado, Montana over #2 Portland St.  Champion: Weber St.  Thoughts: This conferences as a whole seems better than [...]

Pat: 32, 11 last night (2 Atlantic Sun, 2 Big South, 3 MVC, 4 NEC) Bo: 25, 4 last night (2 Atlantic Sun, 0 Big South, 0 MVC, 2 NEC)   Notes: A huge night for Pat and a terrible night for me. I whiffed on both Big South semi’s, losing my champion there, while [...]

MVC First Round: Drake over Indiana State, Wichita State over Missouri State Second Round: Northern Iowa over Drake, SIU over Bradley, Illinois State over Evansville, Creighton over Wichita State Semifinals: Northern Iowa over SIU, Creighton over Illinois State Champion: Creighton Random Thoughts: This conference isn’t as good as it’s been in past years, so while [...]

Missouri Valley (3 points) 1st Round: #8 Drake over #9 Indiana St., #10 Missouri St. over #7 Wichita St. 2nd Round: #1 Northern Iowa over Drake, #4 Bradley over #5 So. Illinois, #3 Illinois St. over #6 Evansville, #2 Creighton over Missouri St. Semi’s: N. Iowa over Bradley, Creighton over Illinois St.  Champion: Creighton Thoughts: [...]

Pat: 21 points total, 8 last night (1 Atlantic Sun, 3 Patriot, 4 Sun Belt) Bo: 21 points total, 8 last night (1 Atlantic Sun, 2 Patriot, 5 Sun Belt) Notes: Another day of games, another dead-lock – proving once and for all that we’re dealing with the two foremost college basketball minds of our [...]

Pat 13 points (8 Horizon, 3 Big South, 2 Ohio Valley) Bo 13 points (6 Horizon, 4 Big South, 3 Ohio Valley) Notes: Pat swept the 2 point Horizon first round, but lost his Ohio Valley champion Eastern Kentucky – probably a loss too monumental to overcome with only 27 tournaments left to begin.

Horizon League 1st Round: Wright State over Valpo, Milwaukee over Loyola, Cleveland State over Detroit, UIC over Youngstown State 2nd Round: Wright State over Milwaukee, Cleveland State over UIC Semifinals: Butler over Wright State, UWGB over Cleveland State Champion: Wisconsin-Green Bay Random Thoughts: Kind of strange that the top 2 seeds get double byes. Not [...]

Horizon League (2-pointer) 1st Round – #4 Wright State over #9 Valpo,  #8 Loyola over #5 Milwaukee, #3 Cleveland State over #6 Detroit, #7 Illinois-Chicago over #6 Youngstown State.  2nd Round – Wright State over Loyola, Cleveland State over Illinois-Chicago Semi’s – #1 Butler over Wright State, Cleveland State over #2 Green Bay Champion: Butler [...]

So the first Conference Tournaments begin today, and we here at “The Basement” will be creating the ultimate all-encompassing conference tournament pick ‘em game. We will be picking every game in every conference tournament with the following rules.  The conferences are broken down into three groups. Since there are 30 conference tournaments, we’ll be using [...]