It’s that time of the year again. The BSB Conference Tournament Challenge. Every year since I can remember, Doogan, J, and I have been picking every conference tournament bracket from the ACC to the Patriot League. Stri joined us about 6 or 7 years ago. Stri was shortly followed by Ina. Alexi joined us two years ago. And, Waters and Lynch jumped in last year, as we had a record 8 competitors. No one has ever dropped out of this pre-Madness madness (because it’s awesome), so I’m assuming we’ll have at least 8 again this year. But, all are welcome. All it takes is filling out a ton of brackets when you get them in your email and sending them back to me before the games start. Then, follow along on BSB and see if your pick of Oral Roberts to win the Summit League takes you to eternal bragging rights (or at least for one year).
The results from the night before, the updated Challenge standings, and a “preview” of that day’s action will be posted each day on BSB beginning March 2 (with the Big South, the Horizon League, and the Ohio Valley) and running all the way through Selection Sunday. All you have to do is email me (or post a comment to this post) and you’ll get the first batch of brackets to fill out. There is no official entry fee, but feel free to make any side bets you’d like. It’s a good way to get into the best month of basketball you can possibly dream of.
PS…If you haven’t been following the Sun Belt Conference, then you are missing out. Before last night’s full slate of 6 crazy games, there were 7 Sun Belt teams within one game of the top spot. Now, we have 6 more games on Saturday to decide the regular season title and the subsequent seedings heading into the tournament in Hot Springs, AR. Don’t worry, I couldn’t name one player in the Sun Belt, but I did get way too much excitement when I saw this morning that Western Kentucky prevailed, in OT, at Florida-Atlantic and that North Texas held off LA-Lafayette at home to keep pace with the leaders in the conference. It just gets me ready for The Challenge.
