Jackrabbits Thwarted, Madness Takes Down 9 Brackets

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A good box-score victory for the Wolverines, and lots of chalk for a day one.  The big upset didn't come until it was technically day two (on the East coast).  But old friend Tommy Ammaker and his band of tuition paying dorks managed to knock off New Mexico and put a red 'X' a final four team for 9 of the 108 participants in the 2013 UMTailgate.com tournament challenge.  

Pretty good day overall though....nobody lost a champion, or even a semi-finalist.  That's a very collectively successful first day of the tournament, so kudos to you all.

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Note that the following links will work for participants only, but Steve Watters,  Patrick Higgins,  CJ King,  Digger's Green Highlighter,  and Allison Kopf are all sitting pretty with 14 points, missing only 2 on day one.  Respectable.  

On with the madness...

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2013 UMTailgate.com Tournament Challenge...Less Than 24 Hours Until Tipoff

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​I'll miss you Jake :(

​I'll miss you Jake :(

​You could spend the rest of the day crying in your beer about Jake Ryan and his torn Achilles, or you could just channel your sadness into working on the madness.

​There's less than 24-hours until the tourney begins, so get your bracket and your *ahem* donation in soon.  The bracket is here.  

Don't have the password?  Send an email to tourney2k13@umtailgate.com to see if you are worthy.

Weekend Roundup, NCAA Tournament Home Game Edition: 3/18/13

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Note: The 13th Annual UMTailgate.com Tournament Challenge is ON. Brackets are here. Don't have the password and think you deserve it? Shoot an email to tourney2k13@umtailgate.com.

​For most of the life of this waste of internet space from which I randomly spout snarky bullshit, the Michigan Men's Basketball Team has not been in the conversation for NCAA tournament glory.  It would be around this time of year that we would grasp at football spring practice videos, recruiting rankings, and organizing some kind of winter reunion.  Not so any more.  Michigan is alive and well in the world of college basketball, and has earned the right to not only play in the NCAA tournament, but also host the opening rounds in its backyard.  This is fun.  It's fun to care.  It's fun to really get involved in the tourney, to have a rooting interest beyond your office bracket.  Hoping your team won't make an early round exit, dreaming of Atlanta, and rooting for schools that you have never heard of with mascots you can't picture to upset your rivals on the big stage.  (Consequently, Go Crusaders!) Going home at lunch on Thursday if only to catch the first moments of the tourney, butterflies in your stomach as you hear the CBS college basketball jingle, quelled only by the desire to punch Buckeye-lover Clark Kellogg in the face.

Ahhhhh...tourney time.  

​Anyway, here's the weekend that was around the internets that you missed while you were trying to convince yourself that losing early in the conference tournament provides much needed rest for the big dance....