Fantasy Week in Review - NCAA Tournament Opening Weekend

Rank	Bracket	Correct Picks	Points	Possible Pts
1	racsan  anuragjain2006	39 of 48	51	119
2	Bear in Seattle  JonathanC	36 of 48	47	143
2	Monty's Pythons  Joe	38 of 48	47	99
2	GoBearsOn3  David	37 of 48	47	95
5	BenBraunsDeliBears  ethan0l	36 of 48	46	126
5	CBKWitness  WFS	36 of 48	46	114
5	Montezuma's Revenge  Rich	34 of 48	46	114
5	ATQ Dave  atqdave	36 of 48	46	110
9	Phoenix Five  demkid2008	34 of 48	45	169
9	oh zhang!  Todd	35 of 48	45	157
139	Yellow Fever *  Brother Bruce	29 of 48	35	67

Ouch!

Take a look at the opening weekend's trends and some of the more notable comments on our group message board after the jump.

Of the 177 participants we have this year, six courageous, though misguided, souls chose Cal to go all the way.  These were:

• Omnizzle
• ttgiang15
• yours truly, yellow fever
• Maisbikkja's Bracket
• Feats of Strength
• Taipei Golden Bears

Not surprisingly, none of us ranked in the top 20.

Meanwhile, in stark opposition to picking Cal to go all the way, a disturbing number of people picked Louisville in the first round as CBKWit pointed out in last Friday's DBD.  To put it more succintly:

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• Mar 18 2:24am

you are a dickhead

Posted by: CBKWitness ( WFS )

While I didn't feel like going through all of the 176 other brackets to see who picked against our Bears, I'm with CBKWit.  Never pick against your team.  Never!  And this is why I don't put money down on Nets games.

Anyway, let's take a closer look at some of this weekend's results, starting with those whose brackets got busted. And what better way to do that than to take a look at the distribution of championship picks?

Team Picks
Kansas 108
Kentucky 19
Syracuse 17
West Virginia 8
California 6
Ohio State 3
Duke 2
Robert Morris 1
Florida State 1
No Pick 12

• Yes, 61% of our brackets took Kansas to go all the way.
  
• All four no. 1 seeds were picked to go all the way.  Which means two terrible, terrible people picked Duke. These were Neuheisal's Winners and tbardhan-1.  For shame.
• Im with Coco apparently didn't realize you have to make all of your picks at once.  I really hope this is the first time you've ever filled out a bracket, son.
• Who took Robert Morris?  Why, that would be DC Trojan's Last Place Picks.  Which is only a misnomer because 12 people didn't make any picks.  And also because Willy's Wild Picks took Florida State.  Wait, what?