Brackets, brackets, brackets!

by Joel Hollingsworth on Mar 17, 2010 12:01 PM EDT in Rocky Top Talking Points

Around SB Nation's ACC, Big Ten, and SEC blogs today:

The Only Colors calculates NCAA Tournament odds based on the Bradley-Terry rating system, a sort of RPI substitute.
With Boston College left out of postseason play, BC Interruption takes the opportunity to create its own bracket pitting the last ten BC basketball teams against one another to crown a champion.
Maize n Brew is also having its own fun with alternative brackets, creating a tournament to identify "the bitterest college fanbase."

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apologies in advance for the threadjack joel

but i wanted this up top to insure immediate feedback.

folks, i need a definitive judgment on a matter of utmost importance today.

i’m going to the open practice today, and hoping to get as close to the team as possible. i have 4 UT shirts in my possession up here in RI. 2 of them are orange, but both explicitly say football on them. i then have one navy blue and one gray shirt with a non-sport-specific UT logo on them.
what’s the call here? i want to be as orange as possible, because i feel like orange will be at a premium up here, and when i attend the game(s) in the nose bleeds im definitely going orange. but if i’m trying to be courtside at a practice and autograph sniping, etc., is the football part disrespectful enough to merit not going with orange?

i submit this to the judgment of the most authoritative and respectable body of UT fans i know.

The Dual Threat, Official Enforcer/Stat Geek of MCM.

by hal41605 on Mar 17, 2010 2:36 PM EDT reply actions

go with the gray UT shirt

by golfballs03 on Mar 17, 2010 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions

Gray's good.

That saves two orange shirts – one for each game this weekend!

The Navy blue one would work well on Monday as support for the Ladies. It’s not baby blue, but beggars/choosers and so on.

by David Hooper on Mar 17, 2010 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah, georgetown's presence kinda kill the navy

The Dual Threat, Official Enforcer/Stat Geek of MCM.

by hal41605 on Mar 17, 2010 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions

Barack-etology 2010

Obama fills out a bracket:
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5002940&categoryid=2459792

He picks Georgetown over UT in the second round,,
but hey at least we get there

U can also view the bracket instead of the video here:
http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/en/entry?entryID=3288143

by V0Ls4LiiFe on Mar 17, 2010 4:16 PM EDT reply actions

No surprise there

Obama is big on the power of the ACC & the Big East.

Tennessee Fans: We win at teh Internet!

by bobo_the_vol on Mar 17, 2010 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions

Btw

It’s kinda nice to have a president who knows wtf he’s talking about with regards to sports — two years ago there was a lot of coverage around my parts of him visiting the UNC Men’s Basketball team, and he didn’t look completely lost, and certainly didn’t sound completely lost.

Tennessee Fans: We win at teh Internet!

by bobo_the_vol on Mar 17, 2010 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions