Sunday, March 8, 2009

Conference Tournament Results: March 7th & 8th

Here's another post that I'm a day late on. These are the results from the completed Conference Tournaments with regard to my predictions bracket. If I make a prediction...I need to let the public know about how I did, for better and for worse. That's called integrity. Or is it authenticity? Or disclosure? Or stupidity? Either way...these picks have definitely fallen into the "worse" category so far. I definitely messed up with the Creighton pick...I should have never gone away from picking a team from Iowa. As Phil said, "If picking a bracket buster from Iowa is wrong, I don't want to be right." When you're right Phil, you're right. Here's how I fared during the first four Conference Tournament brackets.

Big South Conference:
  • Actual Champion: Radford (2nd NCAA appearance, first since 1998)
  • My Predicted Champion: Radford
  • Bracket Winning Percentage: 85.7% (6 of 7 games correct)
  • Overall Bracket Winning Percentage: 85.7% (6 of 7 games correct)
  • Overall Predicted Champion Winning Percentage: 100% (1 of 1 correct)
Atlantic Sun Conference:
  • Actual Champion: East Tennessee State (8th NCAA appearance, first since 2004)
  • My Predicted Champion: Belmont (lost in semi-finals to ETSU)
  • Bracket Winning Percentage: 50% (3 of 6 games correct)
  • Overall Bracket Winning Percentage: 69.2% (9 of 13 games correct)
  • Overall Predicted Champion Winning Percentage: 50% (1 of 2 correct)
Ohio Valley Conference:
  • Actual Champion: Morehead State (6th NCAA appearance, first since 1984)
  • My Predicted Champion: Murray State (lost in semi-finals to Austin Peay)
  • Bracket Winning Percentage: 57.1% (4 of 7 games correct)
  • Overall Bracket Winning Percentage: 65% (13 of 20 games correct)
  • Overall Predicted Champion Winning Percentage: 33.3% (1 of 3 correct)
Missouri Valley Conference:
  • Actual Champion: Northern Iowa (5th NCAA appearance, first since 2006)
  • My Predicted Champion: Creighton (lost in semi-finals to Illinois State)
  • Bracket Winning Percentage: 66.7% (6 of 9 games correct)
  • Overall Bracket Winning Percentage: 65.5% (19 of 29 games correct)
  • Overall Predicted Champion Winning Percentage: 25% (1 of 4 correct)
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2 comments:

  1. MattMarch 10, 2009 at 5:16 AM

    Your overall champion winning percentage is taking the same shape of the stock market over the past 6 months. Hopefully you can max out your credit cards in hopes that by putting yourself in extreme debt that you can resurrect your champion winning percentage from 25%. I mean if the government does it for our economy, why can't it work for NCAA basketball predictions...oh wait, its not working...forget that thought.

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  2. Desmond HuntingtonMarch 10, 2009 at 6:34 AM

    I'm ignoring the politics involved and saying this:

    I started off SO well last year that I thought these would be easy. I was looking at those numbers and found that I went 26 of 30 picks over the first four Conference Tournaments...getting all 4 overall champions correct. What I didn't know at that point was this is really damn hard.

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