OFFICEPOOL64.COM | Men's Basketball Office Pool And Resource Links

Pre-Register For 2010 Office Pool Contest

2010-03-07T18:22:00.006-06:00

If you would like to pre-register for this years office pool contest, you can do so on the registration page. An email will be sent out once the pairings are announced.

Your email address is used by this office pool and will never be shared or sold.

2010 Office Pool Returns

2010-03-07T18:00:00.000-06:00

Returning for our 14th year, OfficePool64.com is currently updating the site for the current year. I've redesigned the website with a new layout and colors. I'll be purging the outdated links to update them with the 2010 links throughout the week, just in time for Selection Sunday on March 14.

Key Tournament Dates courtesy of NCAA Sports

Pre-Tournament Events
March 14 - Selection Sunday @ 5:00 CST on CBS
March 16 - Opening Round game [play in game]

First Weekend Of Games
March 18-19: Round One Games
March 20-21: Round Two Games

Second Weekend Of Games
March 25-26: Round Three Games
March 27-28: Round Four Games

Final Weekend Of Games
April 3: Round Five, Semi-Finals
April 5: Round Six, Championship Game

2010 Automatic Bids - Conference Tournaments

2010-03-07T17:37:00.008-06:00

Conference	Winners-Dates [record]
ACC	March 11-14
American East	March 6-7, 13
Atlantic Sun	E. Tennessee State Buccaneers [20-14]
Atlantic 10	March 9, 12-14
Big East	March 9-13
Big Sky	Montana Grizzlies [22-9]
Big South	Winthrop Eagles [19-13]
Big Ten	March 11-14
Big 12	March 10-13
Big West	March 10-13
Colonial	Old Dominion Monarchs [26-8]
Conference USA	March 10-13
Horizon	Butler Bulldogs[28-4]
Ivy League	Cornell Big Red [27-4]
MAAC	Sienna Saints [27-6]
MAC	March 7, 11-13
MEAC	March 8-13
Missouri Valley	Northern Iowa Panthers [28-4]
Mountain West	March 10-13
Northeast	Robert Morris Colonials [23-11]
Ohio Valley	Murry State Racers [30-4]
Pac-10	March 10-13
Patriot	March 3, 7, 12
SEC	March 11-14
Southern	Wofford Terriers [26-8]
Southland	March 10-13
Summit	Oakland Golden Grizzlies [26-8]
Sun Belt	North Texas Mean Green [24-8]
SWAC	March 10-13
WAC	March 11-13
West Coast	St Mary's Gaels [26-5]

North Carolina Defeats Michigan State

2009-04-06T22:38:00.006-05:00

Too many turnovers, too many missed shots for Michigan State as the Tar Heels win convincingly in Detroit. The Spartans were never really in this one. I tuned in a bit late to the game and they were already down 21-7, but it really was lights out from then on. The experience of UNC really was shining through tonight as they win 89-72 in the final game of the 2009 tournament.

Congratulations goes to Robert Wyatt for winning the 2009 OfficePool64.com Tournament Contest.

Your Top Ten Pick Sheets for the 2009 Office Pool

See you in 2010!!!

Big Ding Dong

Round Five Teams - Saturday

2009-04-04T19:48:00.004-05:00

Saturday's Active teams.

Eliminated teams are in ~~red~~.

~~1 Connecticut Huskies~~ - picked by 92
2 Michigan State Spartans - picked by 22
1 North Carolina Tar Heels - picked by 158
~~3 Villanova Wildcats~~ - picked by 7

The Finals Are Set

2009-03-29T18:33:00.007-05:00

There are exactly 8 scenarios remaining in the 2009 office pool. Game days are Saturday, April 4 and Monday, April 6.

1. ~~If Michigan St beats Villanova~~
2. ~~If Villanova beats Michigan St~~
3. If Michigan St beats N. Carolina
4. If N. Carolina beats Michigan St
5. ~~If Connecticut beats Villanova~~
6. ~~If Villanova beats Connecticut~~
7. ~~If Connecticut beats N. Carolina~~
8. ~~If N. Carolina beats Connecticut~~

Round Four Teams - Saturday & Sunday

2009-03-28T12:56:00.008-05:00

Saturday and Sunday's Active teams, sorted by region.

Eliminated teams are in ~~red~~.

WEST Region
1 Connecticut Huskies - picked by 170
~~3 Missouri Tigers~~ - picked by 32

EAST Region
~~1 Pittsburgh Panthers~~ - picked by 278
3 Villanova Wildcats - picked by 31

MIDWEST Region
~~1 Louisville Cardinals~~ - picked by 299
2 Michigan State Spartans - picked by 47

SOUTH Region
1 North Carolina Tar Heels - picked by 263
~~2 Oklahoma Sooners~~ - picked by 53

Round Three Teams - Thursday & Friday

2009-03-26T20:47:00.005-05:00

Thursday and Friday's Active teams, sorted by region.

Eliminated teams are in ~~red~~.

EAST Region
1 Pittsburgh Panthers
~~2 Duke Blue Devils~~
3 Villanova Wildcats
~~4 Xavier Musketeers~~

WEST Region
1 Connecticut Huskies
~~2 Memphis Tigers~~
3 Missouri Tigers
~~5 Purdue Boilermakers~~

MIDWEST Region
1 Louisville Cardinals
2 Michigan State Spartans
~~3 Kansas Jayhawks~~
~~12 Arizona Wildcats~~

SOUTH Region
1 North Carolina Tar Heels
2 Oklahoma Sooners
~~3 Syracuse Orange~~
~~4 Gonzaga Bulldogs~~

Round Two Teams - Sunday's Games

2009-03-22T11:12:00.007-05:00

Saturday's Round Two games with active teams in each region.
Eliminated teams are in ~~red~~.

EAST Region
1 Pittsburgh Panthers
4 Xavier Musketeers
~~8 Oklahoma State Cowboys~~
~~12 Wisconsin Badgers~~

MIDWEST Region
1 Louisville Cardinals
2 Michigan State Spartans
3 Kansas Jayhawks
~~9 Siena Saints~~
~~10 USC Trojans~~
~~11 Dayton Flyers~~
12 Arizona Wildcats
~~13 Cleveland State Vikings~~

WEST Region
3 Missouri Tigers
~~6 Marquette Golden Eagles~~

SOUTH Region
3 Syracuse Orange
~~6 Arizona State Sun Devils~~

Round Two Teams - Saturday's Games

2009-03-21T13:13:00.007-05:00

Saturday's Round Two games with active teams in each region.
Eliminated teams are in ~~red~~.

EAST Region
2 Duke Blue Devils
3 Villanova Wildcats
~~6 UCLA Bruins~~
~~7 Texas Longhorns~~

WEST Region
1 Connecticut Huskies
2 Memphis Tigers
~~4 Washington Huskies~~
5 Purdue Boilermakers
~~9 Texas A&M Aggies~~
~~10 Maryland Terrapins~~

SOUTH Region
1 North Carolina Tar Heels
2 Oklahoma Sooners
4 Gonzaga Bulldogs
~~8 LSU Tigers~~
~~10 Michigan Wolverines~~
~~12 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers~~

The End Of The First Round Games

2009-03-21T01:14:00.004-05:00

For somebody out there, this graphic makes sense.

Round 1, Day 1

2009-03-20T01:18:00.002-05:00

Just a quick message today as it's very late here....

We are half way through the Round 1 games, there are currently two pick sheets that are perfect through the first 16 games: Jeff 'Mad Max' Maxwell, Chris Charters 2. Nice job so far.

Numbers wise, total pick sheets is up this year at 423 entries. Last year there was 360 total entries in the pool.

2009 Office Pool 64 Tournament Is Live

2009-03-19T11:30:00.000-05:00

Submissions Are Closed

Make sure you hit the SUBMIT PICKS button at the bottom of the page or your picks will not be entered into the pool.

Deadline: Tip-Off, March 19 @ 12:30 PM [EST]

Entry Fee: $0.00

Enter as often as you like. When entering multiple times, please place a number after your name to make it unique [or it will over write you last submitted picks] For example: Timmy 1, Timmy 2, Timmy 3

Viewable And Printable 2009 Brackets

31 Automatic Bids - Conference Tournaments

2009-03-15T04:30:00.000-05:00

31 automatic bids are earned by the Conference Tournament Champions. Here is the list of conferences, schedule and winner when known.

	Dates-Winners [record]	Conference [record]
1.	Duke Blue Devils [28-6]	ACC [11-5]
2.	Binghamton Bearcats [23-8]	American East [13-3]
3.	East Tennessee St Buccaneers [23-10]	Atlantic Sun [14-6]
4.	Temple Owls [22-11]	Atlantic 10 [11-5]
5.	Louisville Cardinals [28-5]	Big East [16-2]
6.	Portland State Vikings [23-9]	Big Sky [11-5]
7.	Radford Highlanders [21-11]	Big South [15-3]
8.	Purdue Boilermakers [24-9]	Big Ten [11-7]
9.	Missouri Tigers [28-6]	Big 12 [12-4]
10.	CSU Northridge Matadors [17-3]	Big West [11-5]
11.	Virginia Commonwealth Rams [24-9]	Colonial [14-4]
12.	Memphis Tigers [31-3]	Conference USA [16-0]
13.	Cleveland State Vikings [24-10]	Horizon [13-6]
14.	Cornell Big Red [21-9]	Ivy League [11-3]
15.	Siena Saints [26-7]	MAAC [16-2]
16.	Akron Zips [23-12]	MAC [10-6]
17.	Morgan State Bears [23-11]	MEAC [17-3]
18.	Northern Iowa Panthers [23-10]	Missouri Valley [14-4]
19.	Utah Utes [24-9]	Mountain West [15-4]
20.	Robert Morris Colonials [24-10]	Northeast [15-3]
21.	Morehead State Eagles [19-15]	Ohio Valley [26-10]
22.	Southern Califonia Trojans [21-12]	Pac-10 [12-9]
23.	American Eagles [24-7]	Patriot [13-1]
24.	Mississippi St Bulldogs [23-12]	SEC [9-7]
25.	Chattanooga Mocs [18-16]	Southern [11-9]
26.	Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks [24-7]	Southland [13-3]
27.	North Dakota State Bison [26-6]	Summit [16-2]
28.	Western Kentucky Hilltopers [24-8]	Sun Belt [15-3]
29.	Alabama St Hornets [22-9]	SWAC [16-2]
30.	Utah State Aggies [30-4]	WAC [14-2]
31.	Gonzaga Bulldogs [26-5]	West Coast [14-10]

Pre-Register For 2009 Office Pool

2009-03-12T22:13:00.005-05:00

Pre-Register Here

If you would like to pre-register for this years office pool contest, you can do so on the registration page. An email will be sent out once the pairings are announced. Your email address is used by this office pool only and will never be shared or sold.

2009 Tournament Schedule

2009-03-10T23:13:00.002-05:00

Welcome Back! The 13th annual OfficePool64.com contest site is up and running. Selection Sunday is less than a week away, I'll be updating the site with the 2009 links this week. There are 30 'automatic bids' to be earned this year and 36 'at large bids'. Cornell of the Ivy League has earn the first spot in the tournament via winning it's regular season championship for the second year in a row. Key Tournament Dates courtesy of NCAA Sports

Pre-Tournament Events
March 15 - Selection Sunday @ 5:00 CST on CBS
March 17 - Opening Round game [play in game]

First Weekend Of Games
March 19-20: Round One Games
March 21-22: Round Two Games

Second Weekend Of Games
March 26-27: Round Three Games
March 28-29: Round Four Games

Final Weekend Of Games
April 4: Round Five, Semi-Finals
April 6: Round Six, Championship Game

Memphis Chokes At The Line

2008-04-07T23:33:00.004-05:00

Geez! Too much pressure for Memphis at the end of the championship game, missing free throws, can't make a basket to save their lives, bad decisions. Kansas was too much for Memphis and until the last two minutes of regulations, didn't show the same spark they had during their match up against North Carolina. Kansas wins in Over Time, 75-68.

Congratulations goes to Keith Deutsch for winning the 2008 OfficePool64.com Tournament Contest.

Your Top Ten Pick Sheets for the 2008 Office Pool

Kansas Jayhawks Versus Memphis Tigers

2008-04-06T21:48:00.006-05:00

Memphis Tigers from Conference USA versus the mighty Kansas Jayhaws of the Big 12 Conference.

Memphis Tigers [38-1] are the only team in NCAA history to earn 38 victories in one season. This is the second time Memphis has played in the Championship game. Their other appearance was in 1973 against UCLA which was a loss. They are also the first team from Conference USA to advance to the Championship game.

Kansas is in the Championship game for the eighth time, their first since 2003. Kansas's 18 point victory over North Carolina is the second largest over a team ranked #1 in tournament history.

Monday's Championship Game - Tipoff @ 9:21 [ET]

#1 Kansas Jayhawks [36-3] - 56 pick sheets selected Kansas
#1 Memphis Tigers [38-1] - 46 pick sheets selected Memphis

See if your name is on the list

Round Five Games

2008-04-05T15:40:00.003-05:00

This is it, we've waited for 51 weeks to get to this point of having four teams in the finals. The first time all four number one seeds have advanced. Which goes against one of my personal rules for filling out my bracket sheet, never advance all four teams into the final weekend of games. Another rule that I use for picking my championship team is only pick the winner from the big conferences. I wanted to take Memphis when I was filling out my bracket, but since they are from a conference that only sent one team [Conference USA], I took Georgetown as my championship team. Arrgh. So I will be rooting for Memphis this weekend. My main reason is they are not from a power conference and it would be a huge testimony for a smaller conference to win the championship game. I would be I'm not alone in rooting for them.

Here are the games for tonight

@ 6:07 pm [ET]
#1 UCLA Bruins
#1 Memphis Tigers

@ 8:47 pm [ET]
#1 Kansas Jayhawks
#1 North Carolina Tar Heels

Only 8 Scenarios Remain

2008-03-30T20:40:00.002-05:00

Well, after two weekends of games, sixty team eliminations, we are down to only four teams. What I found amazing was 43 of you correctly selected all four teams. That has to be a record number of pick sheets correctly picking all four teams in this round.

Here is what it comes down too, the eight scenarios that can happen will be for the championship game. Follow each link to see where you will finish of Team A beats Team B:

Davidson Upsets Wisconsin

2008-03-30T00:42:00.000-05:00

Round 2 Completed, 16 Teams Remain

2008-03-23T23:23:00.001-05:00

Another first weekend of games have completed and yet ANOTHER year of me losing one of my final four teams of the tournament during the first weekend of games. This year it's my championship team I've lost.

It was a really tough year for predicting the winners. This years best for the most correct picks in the Field of 16 was 13 correct. There was three of you that managed to do this.

It was an interesting weekend of games, a lot of higher seeded teams have survived, more than usual. Of course we lost a couple higher seeded teams. Two of the number 2 seeds, but all four number 1 seeds advanced.

Duke losing to West Virginia - 38 of you selected that one
Georgetown losing to Davidson - 29 of you selected this one

Round 1 Completed, On With Round Two

2008-03-21T23:58:00.002-05:00

With a total of 360 pick sheets entered into the 2008 tournament, Kim Ross takes the first round lead a pick percentage of 91%. That's an impressive 29 of 32 correct pick selections. The one blemish is, out of the three incorrect picks, two of them were selected to be winners in the Field of 16. That hurts if you want to maintain the lead.

What did I see that was surprising in the first round? Well, the Duke-Butler game is the one that stands out the most because of the shock value. None of us predicted a #12 versus a #13 in the WEST bracket OR the MIDWEST bracket. There was a few, and I mean a few, that predicted only one of the winners in that round two match up. My biggest victory of the first round was Siena over Vanderbilt. I did foresee such the large margin of their win, but hopefully in round two they come through for me as I have them winning once again [over Clemson, not Villanova].

We are half way though the best weekend of the year. Lots more basketball to be played. Many questions to be answered....can Duke survive yet another game? Will UCLA have the easiest road to the Field of 8? Can Wisconsin stop Kansas State? Will all four #1 seeds advance? Will any of the top teams fall flat in round two and lose early? Only time will tell....

Tournament Games Begin

2008-03-20T18:15:00.000-05:00

The tournament games have begun with Xavier vs Georgia, Kansas vs Portland State and Michigan State vs Temple.

The current standings updates happen automatically at the top of each hour. You'll find the links to the current standings on the column to the left.

2008 Office Pool 64 Tournament Is Live

2008-03-16T17:36:00.015-05:00

Entry Submissions Is Closed

Deadline: Tip-Off, March 20 @ 12:30 PM [EST]
Entry Fee: $0.00

Make sure you hit the SUBMIT PICKS button at the bottom of the page or your picks will not be entered into the pool.

Enter as often as you like. When entering multiple times, please place a number after your name to make it unique [or it will over write you last submitted picks] For example: Timmy 1, Timmy 2, Timmy 3

For more details on the teams in the tournament and help on your brackets, visit my NEW bracket match up pages

Viewable And Printable 2008 Brackets