Monday, March 30, 2009

THE FINAL WEEK

Our long nightmare is almost over, just in time for planting season for us farmers.

It is down to three potential winners, all in the Final Four

Semi-Finals on Saturday are worth 17 points (plus 2 for beating another player, 1 for the win):
North Carolina (Jaybird) vs Villanova (The CEO)
UCONN (HippieD) vs Michigan State (Babblemur)

Championship Game is worth 21 points (plus 2 for beating another player, 1 for the win)

Prognosis: If North Carolina, Michigan State or Villanova win the National Championship, Jaybird, Babs or The CEO, currently in 5th, 1st and 4th place, will win it all.

If UCONN wins the National Championship, HippieD will rise from 11th to 9th place, but who will finish in first then??? Jaybird or The CEO will pick up 20 points Saturday, putting them at either 452 or 453, still 2 points behind Babblemur. With neither having teams playing in the NIT, CBI, or CIT, that's it - if UCONN wins, Babblemur wins.

NIT - Butter Battle in a Bottle

Still points going on here - Semi Finals on Tuesday are worth 4 points (plus 2 for beating another player, 1 for the win):

San Diego State (Babblemur) vs Baylor (NotaTurtle)
Penn State (Musashisan) vs Notre Dame (Gunz)

Finals on Thursday are worth 7 points (plus the you know)

Commentary: If the CEO or Jaybird were just a little closer to Babs, the NIT may have become the decider in either putting Babblemur over the top or keeping them below the mark. Now it is for glory only.

CBI: Best 2 out of 3?

Whatever, I guess it is something different. Tonight UTEP (NotaTurtle) and Oregon St (Musashisan) play the first in a best of 3 game series for the CBI Title, worth nothing but the points they get playing each other.

CIT: [insert witty comment]

Tuesday is the finals of the CIT, with Old Dominion (Gunz) taking on Bradley for that single point that comes from a win. Combine that point with a Notre Dame NIT Champ and Gunz could move into seventh place leaping past ProgressMedia and Phunmunki.

31 comments:

akaoni said...

So Mich St. could lose, but as long as they take the championship babs wins...is that right?

Ron said...

From the archives, last year's final week:

WEEK TWENTY TWO (Mar 31 - Apr 6) - This is the end

AKAONI WINS NIT; FACES JUTDOG IN FINAL NCAA GAME

Well our long national nightmare is almost over.

Notaturtle’s Bradley is fighting it out in the CBI Championships with Tulsa in a best of 3 contest worth no points.

In the NIT (worth a colossal 5 points), Mississippi (Phunmunki), Ohio State (Akaoni) and Florida (Notaturtle) are all in the Final Four (Yawn).

Oh yes - the BIG DANCE - the NCAA Final Four is up! It looks like Jutdog is going to win this no matter what (Notaturtle can win 28 points with UCLA, Jutdog can loose 2, not enough to make up the difference) but there is a grudge match for second place. Notaturtle leads with 136, Akaoni (Memphis) sits just 18 points back with 120, and Musashisan (North Carolina) is within reach at 107. Jutdog (Kansas) needs to win it all for bragging rights, but with his luck, he probably will.

Ron said...

"So Mich St. could lose, but as long as they take the championship babs wins...is that right?"

Pretty sure - it looks to me that North Carolina or Villanova need to win the national championship or else the evil Babblemur finishes in first place.

Ron said...

Aaaand for funzies, the final comment from last year:

Posted on 07-Apr-08 at 11:15 pm | Permalink

akaoni wrote:

That sucked.

Congrats to Jut, he clearly had the better team and brackets this year. I’ll so some research next time around and try to give him a run for his money.

akaoni said...

I guess I failed in my promise to do some research...huh?

Also, who will you root for babs? Hippie D's UConn or Mich St.? I think UConn has a better chance of winning it all, so conceviablly your team losing actually gives you a better chance of winning?!?!?

akaoni said...

Finally, what the hell is coming out of your mouth in that pic? It doesn't look like smoke to me...

Anonymous said...

Looks like I've sealed a 3rd place finish then.

So if Mich St wins, and UNC wins, and then UNC wins, Jaybird would take down Babs by 1 pt? Unless Babs advances in the NIT, in which case Bab's is not catchable.

~ Jut

Ron said...

Ah yes! The "Michigan State Beats UCONN" Scenario!

THAT is the case where the NIT can influence the outcome, and we'll know that tomorrow night (GO AZTECS!). If San Diego State loses, then yes, Michigan State could beat UCONN, lose to whomever, and I lose (if you call second place losing that is).

Of course I am rooting for Michigan State all the way, although if this contest weren't happening then at this point I think the best championship game that could come out of this would be UCONN v UNC.

By the way - anyone know if the two losers play each other on Monday?

Ron said...

Musashisan's switch from Oregon to Oregon State this year turned out to be a pretty good move! Oregon St over UTEP in game one of the CBI.

Anonymous said...

Booo to Baylor beating SD St! Boo!

We got a competition now this weekend now that my secret Aztec point sponge has been eliminated.

Anonymous said...

I summed up the voting thus far below. We'll wait a few more days I guess to see if the others vote. Babs, talk to munki. Vote for her if you want.

akaoni said...

One player, 3 votes. Plus, I don't think phunmunki would take kindly to words being placed in her mouth...

Anonymous said...

stop hitting on Bab's wife.

Anonymous said...

She doesn't care.

About the votes that is.

-Babs

Anonymous said...

By the way - after this cursed season is over this blog site is going to be turned into Babblemur's House of Fucking Awesome Videos (BHFAV) so look forward to daily youtube videos of really far out music appearing here daily daily forever.

Anonymous said...

great, i hope you set up a great site and spend lots of time so that i can ruin it.

akaoni said...

If allowed, I will contribute when bored at work or while watching reality TV. Awesome weekly updates forthcoming...

Anonymous said...

The NEW B-HIVE (Babblemur's House of Interesting Videos ETC) will not allow any discussion of the Green Party, Sustainability, Obama's Crackberry, or Basketball, unless they appear in a song (which is not inconceivable)

akaoni said...

Can I make fun of wingnuts?

akaoni said...

...and jut?

Anonymous said...

No and yes.

Maybe we should just call the new blog the "Akaoni & Babblemur Power Hour! (New & Improved)"

By the way, I really liked Megan Joy Whatever and felt that she was wrongly demonized but on the other hand she's probably too silly for AI.

akaoni said...
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akaoni said...

Disagree completely. Her voice sounded like a combination of David Sedaris' impression of Billie Holiday (audio and video aren't synched) combined with new flavor of the month Adele (who actually is pretty good), which is probably the only reason she made it to the finals anyway.

Megan Joy's vocal talents aside, she seemed like a nice, real, and fairly good humored individual, but she didn't really belong on the show...

As to the no politics rule...I think I can get behind that, I'm still in a bit of a post Obama election hangover anyway.

akaoni said...

Also, how does one embed video with the editing tools?

Anonymous said...

1. You write your posts in the html view not the other view

2. From youtube you copy the code to the right of the video where it says "embed video"

3. You paste it on your post

4. It works!

akaoni said...

Duh...don't know why I didn't think of that...

Anonymous said...

Now if only I can figure out how to get my old babblemur.com to point here...

Ron said...

Hell, probably easier to buy a new domain name.

Got any good ideas?

Anonymous said...

LovableAliens.com is available

So is braargh.com

akaoni said...

Why bother? Just stick with the free blogspot site...

Ron said...

Don't you worry your head over it, we're starting a new blog for our fun since fun is being BANNED here.