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Archive for January, 2011

68 & 16 College Sportscast: Upset Weekend edition

Posted by deaconcat08 on 31st January 2011

In today’s podcast, Justin and I review the many college basketball upsets of last weekend.  We also look ahead and give our upset picks for the Monday through Thursday games.  I have a 7 to 6 lead on Justin in our upset pool.  Furthermore, we will unveil our current 1 through 6 seeds for the Big Dance.  http://68and16sportscast.tumblr.com/

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College Basketball Picks for January 31st

Posted by deaconcat08 on 31st January 2011

I know I missed yesterday’s game, but I still have a great record for the season.  Let’s start this week off right with a big victory in the game I’ve picked below.  Northern Colorado (+3.0) at Northern Arizona- I believe the Big Sky co-leaders will bounce back from their disappointing loss to Weber State this weekend, [...]

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Brad-ketology: January 31st Edition

Posted by deaconcat08 on 31st January 2011

The teams below are displayed below on an S-curve, so they are ranked from left to right within each seeding line.  The italicized teams are ones predicted to win their conference tourney and gain an automatic bid to the dance.  For the conferences who currently have NCAA tourney teams, it is assumed that one of those teams will win [...]

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College Basketball Picks for January 30th

Posted by deaconcat08 on 30th January 2011

I hope everyone has noticed my stunning 6-0 start to the season!  I’m pretty sure that I currently hold the title for most accurate college basketball handicapper on the web.  Sorry if you have wanted me to pick more games, but I don’t want to tarnish my great record by making picks that I don’t feel fully confidence in.  All [...]

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Small Conference Sentimental Stories to Watch

Posted by deaconcat08 on 29th January 2011

We are less than two month away from the start of March Madness, so it’s time to see which Cinderella stories could emerge.  The mid-major conference tournaments are the source much of the early holiday season drama, as only the tourney champion will be able to put on their dancing shoes.  While almost all mid-major NCAA teams have [...]

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68 & 16 College Sportscast: Jimmer Edition

Posted by deaconcat08 on 28th January 2011

Our upset pool goes into its 2nd weekend as Brad holds a 2 point advantage.  Tune into this short sportscast to get our college basketball weekend upset predictions.  We also discuss the Jimmer show and look at what teams helped or hurt themselves this past week in the seedings. http://68and16sportscast.tumblr.com/

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Brad-ketology: January 28th Edition

Posted by deaconcat08 on 28th January 2011

These bracket projections are now included in the prestigious bracket project poll that can be found at: http://bracketproject.50webs.com/matrix.htm The teams below are displayed below on an S-curve, so they are ranked from left to right within each seeding line.  The italicized teams are ones predicted to win their conference tourney and gain an automatic bid to the dance.  For the conferences who [...]

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College Basketball Picks for January 26th

Posted by deaconcat08 on 26th January 2011

These spreads are based on the current lines according to the World Sports Exchange, and they are ordered from most confident to least confident.  All of these spreads are from the sportsbook.com’s current lines, and they are ordered based on my personal confidence in each.    Penn State (-7.5) vs. Iowa- Iowa is horrible, especially on the road. Minnesota [...]

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68 & 16 College Sportscast: Inaugural Bubble Watch Edition

Posted by deaconcat08 on 26th January 2011

In part two of our first bracketology podcast, we finish our 11 through 16 seeds.  There is a heavy focus on bubble teams so find out which teams are on the good and bad side of the bubble.  Also, we give our early picks for potential bracket busters come March. http://68and16sportscast.tumblr.com/

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68 & 16 College Sportscast: Inaugural Bracketology Edition

Posted by deaconcat08 on 25th January 2011

Welcome to our inaugural bracketology podcast!  Justin and I spend a lot of time debating and perfecting our projected brackets and we’re excited to finally share them.  In this episode, we discuss our 1 through 10 seeds.  We also give our upset picks for Monday through Thursday.  We are currently tied at 3 in our upset [...]

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College Basketball Picks for January 24th

Posted by deaconcat08 on 24th January 2011

I provided my readers with several months of college football picks and now its time to start giving you some college bball lines.  My football prognostications were good, but not great, this year; however, I traditionally do better with college bball bets/picks than with football.  Last basketball season I racked up a 62-53 record.  One thing about my basketball [...]

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Brad-ketology: The Inaugural 2011 Edition

Posted by deaconcat08 on 23rd January 2011

With college football season over and NFL playoffs winding down, I’m ready to start dreaming about March.  Therefore, it is time to publish my first edition of Brad-ketology for the 2011 season (my version of NCAA/NIT mock seeding).   Brad-ketology is a little different than other NCAA tourney predictors in that it is much more expansive, as it also includes the NIT field [...]

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68 & 16 College Sportscast: Onions! Edition

Posted by deaconcat08 on 22nd January 2011

We have our first repeat special guest, as Rob joins us to discuss more college basketball.  Get all of our weekend upset picks and a recap of last week’s action.  Also, we discuss who’s our favorite college basketball announcers. http://68and16sportscast.tumblr.com/

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Brad’s College Football Season in Review- My Final Rankings

Posted by deaconcat08 on 22nd January 2011

Thanks everyone for reading my season-in-review analysis and also following my college football entries throughout the season.  I hope I was able to bring you some insightful and entertaining analysis/commentary.  This will likely be my last college football entry for a while, as it is now time to turn to college bball season.  I will be debuting [...]

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Brad’s College Football Season in Review- National Rankings

Posted by deaconcat08 on 21st January 2011

Well, the college football season has come to a close, and it’s time to look back to see how I fared with my preseason predictions compared to the experts, especially my arch rival prognosticator Phil Steele.  This is the fourth season I’ve conducted this full, in-depth analysis of my preseason picks, and have had mixed results in doing so.  [...]

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