It’s once again that time when people all over the country stop doing what they are doing and feverishly consider their picks for the NCAA Basketball Tournaments so they can enter the
EIGHTH Annual Big Johnson COED College Basketball Tournament Classic, sponsored by yours truly, on
ESPN.
Stick It To The Man – that’s me! A prize of untold delight – as yet undecided, frankly, but it will be something nice, though definitely not an iPad – awaits the winner of EACH of the Men’s and Women’s Big Johnsons! (YOUR gender is irrelevant. I am referring to the separate basketball tournaments.) And as usual, anyone who gets more points than The Man will win something. Probably chocolate . . .
It won’t cost you anything but your sanity . . . and not even that, if you simply choose the higher-seeded team in each matchup, and then pick the eventual Final Four winner based on their mascot or school colors. How difficult can this really be? Well, there might be upsets. Or not. And gee, there are only – uh, lessee, 64 teams in each tournament – okay, 126 total games.
And it takes a special kind of person to enter BOTH the Men’s and Women’s tournaments. Yes, I mean you!
FRIENDS ARE WELCOME, and Significant Others, too!
The brackets are being set by the NCAA (Men’s Sunday March 14; Women’s Monday March 15). The men’s first round games start on Thursday March 18 (we don’t do the men’s “play-in” game on Tuesday), and the women’s first games are on Saturday March 20 – and the brackets are locked shortly before the first game of each tournament. That doesn’t leave you much time, so GET GOING!
The Group Name on ESPN is “Big Johnson” for each tournament, and the group password is: kimsentme. That’s right, kim sent me, one word.
You can get there through the following URLs:
I know some of you like to fake out ESPN with an alias and throwaway email, but please be sure I can identify you from your name or the name of your entry. Otherwise I will keep your prize, ha ha.
After you create your entries, be sure to join the Big Johnson group in each tournament! And, if you create your entry before the brackets are set, be sure to return in time to choose your winners before they lock. Most people will wait until March 18 or 17, but don’t forget! You will be humiliated as your entries with zero points sink inexorably to the bottom of the group . . .
ESPN tracks your points as the tournaments progress. I will weigh in every now and then with a Big Johnson update.
Best of luck to everyone!
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Big Johnson fans – another season has come and gone, so we have to make do with pro sports, fantasy football and what-have-you until college bowl season comes around.
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