What's All That Bracket?

I'll be honest: I pay very little attention to college basketball until March. I know I'm not alone in this. It took a few years, but toward the end of my time at Tech, I was known to catch a game or two per season. When we really started being in competitive in the ACC, that was exciting, but I still didn't have the time to watch every game. That doesn't mean that I'm not indignant at VT's NCAA snub! That doesn't mean that I won't fill out a bracket with 15 seeds making it to the Final Four in protest! Mark my words, this is Austin Peay's year, baby! They have jumping people on their webpage, and that means they're exciting!

But in all seriousness, the second year of the Coors Park Bracketology Center is now up in our basement. This year it comes complete with 200% more tournaments! I don't think you can call the CBI a tournament, but Matt still scribbled its bracket out on a piece of notebook paper so it wouldn't get left out. See Matt's Flickr pictures of the setup. I can claim no credit for the ideas or the craftsmanship of the brackets, since Josh handcrafted the NCAA board and Matt made the others, but I can still have collateral coolness by living here.

This year, I was also doing research into bracket scoring strategies for purely hypothetical application in various sociopolitical pool-type settings. I was stunned at the precision that some people use in their brackets! I think that next year, I could really get into coming up with a dorky scoring system that uses Fibonacci sequences and least squares regression. Someone call me up and remind me to do that in 11 months, ok? Seriously.