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Gotta love this time of the year...Time to get our brackets going..! I'm jilted Texas looses, but I gotta say, I like our chances of getting to the Sweet 16...But North Carolina looked damn good...I'm pretty stoked about this years tournament, can't wait to get it kicked off...

I definitely love this time of year! There are some low seeded teams who might make a good Cinderella team but who knows for sure. Are we still gonna do the AF pool?

That's up to you...! :D

You get it crackin', we'll get it stackin'... :D

Damn...I completely forgot that this was up to me. My grandma died on Monday so that has completely occupied my time since Selection Sunday. Let's just do this based on who we predict for the Elite Eight, Final Four, and Championship. If you want in this, go ahead and post those below and we'll tally it all up!

Elite Eight
East: North Carolina vs Louisville
Midwest: Kansas vs Wisconsin
South: Memphis vs Texas
West: UCLA vs Duke

Final Four
North Carolina vs Wisconsin
Texas vs Duke

Championship
North Carolina vs Texas

North Carolina wins it all!!

Damn tt, sad to hear that man... :(

You still have 2 hours and 30 minutes to enter a bracket pick on yahoo:

http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/

After the first game tip-off - you will be too late.

Threw this together, don't know how many guys will have time to do it...

http://tinyurl.com/3ydrv4

First day of tournament features little surprise
Mike Huguenin
Rivals.com College Basketball Editor

The first day of the NCAA Tournament is done, and it was … well, it was boring.

There were 16 games, and the favorites won 14 of the 16. The one "upset" was a No. 11 seed beating a No. 6 seed - but the No. 11 was a team from the Big 12 (Kansas State). The other "upset" was a No. 9 seed beating a No. 8 seed - and the No. 9 was another Big 12 team (Texas A&M).

One true upset was averted when No. 2 Duke held off No. 15 Belmont 71-70. The Bruins, who lost for the third consecutive season as a No. 15, actually had a chance to stun the Blue Devils but blew a couple of chances in the final two minutes.

To make matters worse, just three of the 16 games were decided by less than 10 points.

All in all, not a first day to remember.

Two No. 1 seeds were in action and both won comfortably: Kansas over Portland State in the Midwest and UCLA over Mississippi Valley State in the West. The other No. 1s begin play Friday night: North Carolina in the East against Mount St. Mary's, which won Tuesday night's play in-game, and Memphis in the South against UT Arlington.

Of the "Big Six" conferences, the Pac-10 and SEC each lost twice and the Big 12 once Thursday. No. 6 USC and No. 10 Arizona were the Pac-10 losers. But that league also had three winning teams: UCLA, No. 3 Stanford and No. 4 Washington State. The SEC lost No. 11 Kentucky and No. 14 Georgia and had nobody else play Thursday. The Big 12 had winners in Kansas, K-State and A&M, while No. 11 Baylor was a loser.

The other 11 losers were from non-Big Six leagues: teams from the Atlantic 10 (Temple) and Mountain West (BYU) and the lone representatives from the Atlantic Sun (Belmont), Big Sky (Portland State), Big South (Winthrop), Big West (Cal State Fullerton), Colonial (George Mason), Ivy (Cornell), Mid-American (Kent State), Southwestern Athletic (Mississippi Valley) and Summit (Oral Roberts).

As for other winners, the Big East had four, the Big Ten also had three, and the ACC, A-10 and Mountain West had one each.

Mike Huguenin is the college sports editor for Rivals.com.

Inevitable that today will be better...

so Uber... predictions for the Texas v Stanford game tonight? It looks to be a good one...