Third Annual PH4H NIT Pick'em Update -- Round 1

The scores from the first round of the 2008 PH4H Men's NIT Pick-'em challenge are in:

1. Dan: 13 correct picks, 13 points
2. Andy: 12 correct picks, 12 points
3. Bo: 12 correct picks, 12 points
4. Inbal: 12 correct picks, 12 points
5. Dara: 11 correct picks, 11 points
6. Jeff: 11 correct picks, 11 points
7. Rachel: 11 correct picks, 11 points
8. Justin: 10 correct picks, 10 points

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NIT Pick'em Challenge, continued

Here is the bracket for the 2008 Women's NIT. Games start tomorrow, so get it to me ASAP.

CBI pool

No NIT for your team (Jeff, Andy, Stephanie, all of you raucous Rider alumni)? Don't despair! The CBI comes to the rescue!

Everybody e-mail me your pick for the winner! (Brown all the way!) Winners receive endless admiration.

In the spirit of "NIT" standing for "Not In the Tournament," please also submit your ideas for what "CBI" stands for. "Couldn't Buy an Invitation," for example.

Third Annual PH4H NIT Pick-'em Challenge

You know what's even better than an NCAA Tournament Pick-'em Challenge designed to make you pick upsets? Yep, that's right -- the Third Annual PH4H NIT Pick'em Challenge. As we've said in the past, the NIT is truly in the spirit of PH4H, rewarding mediocre (at best) teams.

And yes, once again this year, we're having a contest for both the Men's and Women's NIT.

Here is the Men's bracket. (The Women's bracket will be available soon.) If you want to play, email me your bracket (or post a link to it in the comments) before the tip off of the first game tomorrow at 6pm.

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Third Annual PH4H NCAA Tournament Pick'em

The PH4H Tournament league is back for the third straight year! Like last year, it utilizes a scoring system that uses a point multiplier based on seeding, to encourage picking upsets.*

And, in our inimitable fashion, the winners are the people with the highest and lowest scores (i.e., even if your picks stink, the only way you're not in the running is if you don't play).

So, if you played last year, all you need to do is log in with the same username and password, and you should automatically be back in the user group. If you didn't play last year, just go to the website (http://ph4h.mayhem.sportsline.com/e), and enter the password "reverse." Either way, once the brackets are released, all you need to do is make your picks before the tournament begins on March 20.

Good luck!



* Based on last year's poll results, I tweaked the scoring system a bit. The relative value for a correct pick in each round is now higher. The first round is worth 1 point, the second is two points, the third is four points, the fourth is eight points, the semi-finals are sixteen points, and the final game is thirty-two points. Of course, if you make a correct pick, those point values will be multiplied by the seeding of that pick.