The Syndicate

Holy Cross? Man, I don't know about that. :P

Well, there's UNC with an insane sense of urgency, so FGCU's hopes are significantly lowered just less than 5 minutes into the second half. I'm really doubting it now, but I suppose anything is possible.

Someday a 16 seed will upset a 1 seed. Someday...

41-40 UNC-FGCU at halftime... this could still happen. 538 is currently giving the Eagles a 12% chance of pulling off the first 16 seed over 1 seed upset ever.

You bet, what a crazy game this one turned out to be! I did not expect that at all; I wrote it off earlier as a relatively easy Purdue win.

Anyone here follow college basketball, particularly around March Madness time?

In the past, I've been known to fill out a March Madness bracket and at least follow all of the games' results, but the last few years I haven't followed it as closely, and somehow I missed it completely this year amid everything else going on. I thought about it earlier this month, and then today found out Round 1 games were starting! So I was wishing I had filled out a bracket, but oh well. Figured I'd start this discussion thread anyway!

I think next year we definitely need to start a Syndicate bracket tournament.

Also, I'm totally calling 16 FGCU over 1 UNC later tonight.

In other news, looks like 12 Yale over 5 Baylor will likely be the first upset of this year's tournament (I don't count 9 seeds beating 8 seeds).

Here's the group on Yahoo! where participants and spectators can check out everyone's brackets and current standings.

Here's 538's March Madness predictions. They update the win probability of each game from the beginning as well as while the game progresses.

I can update this first post with any additional links any of us thinks is worthwhile.