We should have made a Forum March Madness competiton.

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Cadets16
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We should have made a Forum March Madness competiton.

Post by Cadets16 » Wed Mar 19, 2014 9:58 pm

In retrospect, it could have been a lot of fun to follow up the Tourney Pick Em with a March Madness Bracket Tourney. Would've been easy enough with ESPN.

There's always next year.. 8)

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Re: We should have made a Forum March Madness competiton.

Post by puckbreath » Wed Mar 19, 2014 10:06 pm

Cadets16 wrote:In retrospect, it could have been a lot of fun to follow up the Tourney Pick Em with a March Madness Bracket Tourney. Would've been easy enough with ESPN.

There's always next year.. 8)
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Post by BlueLineSpecial » Wed Mar 19, 2014 10:16 pm

March Madness is the medical term for my hockey withdrawal after the HS boys hockey tourney ends
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Post by karl(east) » Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:08 pm

My Hoyas are in the NIT, so that pretty much killed my March Madness enthusiasm this year. Though at least they can win a first round game in the NIT. :x

We could get an NCAA hockey bracket going, at the very least...

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Post by BlueLineSpecial » Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:17 pm

karl(east) wrote:My Hoyas are in the NIT, so that pretty much killed my March Madness enthusiasm this year. Though at least they can win a first round game in the NIT. :x

We could get an NCAA hockey bracket going, at the very least...
Could there be a worse nickname? You're the Georgetown ornamental shrubs

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoya

:wink:

Fun fact, I was a 'pioneer' in both high school AND college. Actually now that I think about it....greyhounds....bulldog....it's a mad house!!
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Post by Cadets16 » Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:24 pm

karl(east) wrote:My Hoyas are in the NIT, so that pretty much killed my March Madness enthusiasm this year. Though at least they can win a first round game in the NIT. :x

We could get an NCAA hockey bracket going, at the very least...
Let's do it.

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Post by GordonBombay99 » Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:28 pm

Simple enough to do a hockey one, pretty much straight forward, Im down for it!

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Post by karl(east) » Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:03 am

BlueLineSpecial wrote:
karl(east) wrote:My Hoyas are in the NIT, so that pretty much killed my March Madness enthusiasm this year. Though at least they can win a first round game in the NIT. :x

We could get an NCAA hockey bracket going, at the very least...
Could there be a worse nickname? You're the Georgetown ornamental shrubs

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoya

:wink:

Fun fact, I was a 'pioneer' in both high school AND college. Actually now that I think about it....greyhounds....bulldog....it's a mad house!!
Ah, you need to educate yourself on your Greek root words:
http://www.hoyasaxa.com/sports/hoia.htm
Not that this makes our mascot any more logical. :?

We're on for the NCAA hockey tourney bracket.

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Post by TTpuckster » Thu Mar 20, 2014 2:49 pm

karl(east) wrote:
BlueLineSpecial wrote:
karl(east) wrote:My Hoyas are in the NIT, so that pretty much killed my March Madness enthusiasm this year. Though at least they can win a first round game in the NIT. :x

We could get an NCAA hockey bracket going, at the very least...
Could there be a worse nickname? You're the Georgetown ornamental shrubs

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoya

:wink:

Fun fact, I was a 'pioneer' in both high school AND college. Actually now that I think about it....greyhounds....bulldog....it's a mad house!!
Ah, you need to educate yourself on your Greek root words:
http://www.hoyasaxa.com/sports/hoia.htm
Not that this makes our mascot any more logical. :?

We're on for the NCAA hockey tourney bracket.
Everybody throws in $10, then I collect :mrgreen: ......er, I mean......the winner collects?
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Post by elliott70 » Thu Mar 20, 2014 3:11 pm

karl(east) wrote:
BlueLineSpecial wrote:
karl(east) wrote:My Hoyas are in the NIT, so that pretty much killed my March Madness enthusiasm this year. Though at least they can win a first round game in the NIT. :x

We could get an NCAA hockey bracket going, at the very least...
Could there be a worse nickname? You're the Georgetown ornamental shrubs

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoya

:wink:

Fun fact, I was a 'pioneer' in both high school AND college. Actually now that I think about it....greyhounds....bulldog....it's a mad house!!
Ah, you need to educate yourself on your Greek root words:
http://www.hoyasaxa.com/sports/hoia.htm
Not that this makes our mascot any more logical. :?

We're on for the NCAA hockey tourney bracket.

'Hoya' is Greek for 'uffda'.
When sportswriters saw the Georgetown football team, they muttered under their breaths 'uffda'. But being gentlemen of the northern hemishpere they simply cheered 'hoya' as not to offend the spoiled, runty, private school snobs.
As always, the fine Norwegian gents maintained their nicety to the brats and coined a new term.
Since the origin, the private school snobbery has embellished the word in search of something significant.
Sorry, as I sit here shaking my head, its just our reaction to your ineptness, 'uffda'. Or our Norwegian nicety (not to mention intelligence), 'Hoya!'.

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Post by TTpuckster » Thu Mar 20, 2014 4:07 pm

elliott70 wrote:
karl(east) wrote:
BlueLineSpecial wrote:
karl(east) wrote:My Hoyas are in the NIT, so that pretty much killed my March Madness enthusiasm this year. Though at least they can win a first round game in the NIT. :x

We could get an NCAA hockey bracket going, at the very least...
Could there be a worse nickname? You're the Georgetown ornamental shrubs

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoya

:wink:

Fun fact, I was a 'pioneer' in both high school AND college. Actually now that I think about it....greyhounds....bulldog....it's a mad house!!
Ah, you need to educate yourself on your Greek root words:
http://www.hoyasaxa.com/sports/hoia.htm
Not that this makes our mascot any more logical. :?

We're on for the NCAA hockey tourney bracket.

'Hoya' is Greek for 'uffda'.
When sportswriters saw the Georgetown football team, they muttered under their breaths 'uffda'. But being gentlemen of the northern hemishpere they simply cheered 'hoya' as not to offend the spoiled, runty, private school snobs.
As always, the fine Norwegian gents maintained their nicety to the brats and coined a new term.
Since the origin, the private school snobbery has embellished the word in search of something significant.
Sorry, as I sit here shaking my head, its just our reaction to your ineptness, 'uffda'. Or our Norwegian nicety (not to mention intelligence), 'Hoya!'.

Mark, you waaaaaaaaaaaaaay to much time on your hands...or Keyboard, as it were.
What is a Green Wave anyway?

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Post by karl(east) » Thu Mar 20, 2014 9:54 pm

TTpuckster wrote:
elliott70 wrote:
karl(east) wrote:
BlueLineSpecial wrote:
karl(east) wrote:My Hoyas are in the NIT, so that pretty much killed my March Madness enthusiasm this year. Though at least they can win a first round game in the NIT. :x

We could get an NCAA hockey bracket going, at the very least...
Could there be a worse nickname? You're the Georgetown ornamental shrubs

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoya

:wink:

Fun fact, I was a 'pioneer' in both high school AND college. Actually now that I think about it....greyhounds....bulldog....it's a mad house!!
Ah, you need to educate yourself on your Greek root words:
http://www.hoyasaxa.com/sports/hoia.htm
Not that this makes our mascot any more logical. :?

We're on for the NCAA hockey tourney bracket.

'Hoya' is Greek for 'uffda'.
When sportswriters saw the Georgetown football team, they muttered under their breaths 'uffda'. But being gentlemen of the northern hemishpere they simply cheered 'hoya' as not to offend the spoiled, runty, private school snobs.
As always, the fine Norwegian gents maintained their nicety to the brats and coined a new term.
Since the origin, the private school snobbery has embellished the word in search of something significant.
Sorry, as I sit here shaking my head, its just our reaction to your ineptness, 'uffda'. Or our Norwegian nicety (not to mention intelligence), 'Hoya!'.

Mark, you waaaaaaaaaaaaaay to much time on your hands...or Keyboard, as it were.
I gave this guy my vote for the Bored's "best literary assassin." Now I'm trying to remember why... :P

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Post by Cadets16 » Sun Mar 23, 2014 10:56 pm

The bracket has been released for the hockey tourney. How should we do this?

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Post by karl(east) » Mon Mar 24, 2014 1:58 pm

Cadets16 wrote:The bracket has been released for the hockey tourney. How should we do this?
Any chance there's a site out there that runs bracket competitions for hockey, as they do for basketball? That would make things a lot easier.

If no one finds one by late tonight, I'll just start a thread where we can all post our picks and come up with a point system.

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Post by MNHockeyFan » Mon Mar 24, 2014 3:21 pm

karl(east) wrote:
Cadets16 wrote:The bracket has been released for the hockey tourney. How should we do this?
Any chance there's a site out there that runs bracket competitions for hockey, as they do for basketball? That would make things a lot easier.

If no one finds one by late tonight, I'll just start a thread where we can all post our picks and come up with a point system.
I've done this contest for the past several years. It's nation-wide with great participation. You can create your own group(s) and run "mini-contests" for just those in your group. Totally free and no obligation of any kind.

www.pickemhockey.com

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